| "Yellow" Coffins from Thebes: Recording and decoding complexity in Egyptian funerary arts (21st - 22nd Dynasties) Contributor(s): Sousa, Rogério (Author) |
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ISBN: 1407357441 ISBN-13: 9781407357447 Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Death & Dying |
| Dewey: 393.109 |
| LCCN: 2020445347 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (1.78 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume proposes a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of "yellow" coffins, which is one of the most extensive corpus of funerary objects from Ancient Egypt, and the most complex in terms of decoration. It presents a synthetic view on Egyptian coffin decoration during the II millennium B.C. together with in-depth examination of a sample of nine previously unpublished burial assemblages. Dating from the 21st-22nd Dynasties, these objects were chosen to showcase the stages of development in coffin decoration detected in the "yellow" corpus, as well as variations in style and layout. A new formal typology of this corpus is proposed, allowing a better understanding of the dynamics of coffin decoration in Theban workshops. |