| The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 Bc): Volume 2 - Contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources Contributor(s): Miniaci, Gianluca (Editor), Grajetzki, Wolfram (Editor) |
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ISBN: 190613748X ISBN-13: 9781906137489 Publisher: Golden House Publications OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Egypt - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 932.01 |
| Series: Middle Kingdom Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.9" W x 11.7" (2.90 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period still attract relatively little research in comparison with other periods of Ancient Egyptian history. This volume aims to fill a gap, and to promote further research into the early second millennium BC. The volume presents a collection of studies by different authors focusing on a variety of aspects of the archaeological record. Several papers present new excavation reports and hitherto unpublished objects. Other topics include the dating of the local governors at Byblos, the transmission of offices in the period, the characteristic "magical wands" or Apotropaia, burials of royal women, and particular groups of stelae, with a new date proposed for a small but well-known corpus of wooden stelae from Thebes. Together these researches build on the range of approaches presented in Middle Kingdom Studies volume 1. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miniaci, Gianluca: - "Dr. Gianluca Miniaci is Senior Researcher in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He has held research fellowships at the British Museum, Petrie Museum, University of Salerno, and Musée du Louvre. His main publications include Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (2011); Le lettere ai morti nell'antico Egitto (2014) and, together with Stephen Quirke and Marilina Betrò, Company of Images: Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2017). He is currently editor-in-chief of the international series "Middle Kingdom Studies", GHP-London and co-director, together with Richard Bussmann and Aly el-Bakry, of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt)." |