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Visualizing the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt /

"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century none had b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Venit, Marjorie Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Death, bilingualism, and biography in the 'eventide' of Egypt : the tomb of Petosiris and its afterlife
  • Egypt as metaphor : visual bilingualism in the monumental tombs of ancient Alexandria
  • Greek myth as metaphor in the Chora of Egypt
  • Tradition and innovation in the tombs of Egyptian Chora
  • Bricolage and Greek-collage in the tombs of the Egyptian Chora
  • Intersection and interconnection in the visualization of the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt.