Research Catalog

Title

Epigraphy through five millennia : texts and images in context / edited by Svenja C. Dirksen and Lena S. Krastel.

Publication

• Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dirksen, Svenja C.
• Krastel, Lena S.

Description

xii, 315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, 1 folded), maps, plans; 31 cm.

Summary

"For thousands of years, people have expressed their cultural and religious ideas in pictorial and written form. The academic field of epigraphy is concerned with the very same legacies, which have been written, painted, engraved or chiseled on various materials. The group of sources studied includes a range of visual and textual media, such as stelae and statues, as well as rock faces and buildings. Although epigraphy was considered an auxiliary science in the past, it has now developed into an independent and important scientific discipline with a wide range of research possibilities"

Series Statement

Sonderschrift ; 43, 1868-9450

Uniform Title

Sonderschrift (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo) ; 43.

Subject

• Inscriptions, Egyptian
• Inscriptions > Egypt
• Inscriptions > Sudan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• 17 English, 2 German contributions.

Contents

An archaeological and cultural study of three Islamic sandstone el-Latif Ibrahim stelae recently discovered on Elephantine Island, Aswan / Lena S. Krastel, Mohamed A. Abd -- Men at work: textless rock inscriptions in the Aswan area / Linda Borrmann-Dücker -- Royal stelae revisited. Neue Überlegungen zu altbekannten Texten / Linda Borrmann-Dücker -- Of fish and vendors. The Khnum Temple Graffiti Project / Jitse H. F. Dijkstra -- Of signs and space. Rock art in Wadi Berber, Aswan / Rebecca Ḏhl -- Meroitische Inschriften im Gebiet des Ersten Katarakts / Jochen Hallof -- Rock art and the transformation of landscape in the Kharga Oasis / Salima Ikram -- The rock art landscape of the Wadi Abu Dom, Northern Sudan / Tim Karberg -- Epipalaeolithic rock art from the east bank near Aswan. Types, landscape, and meaning / Adel Kelany -- The epigraphy of Philae / Holger Kockelmann -- Vom Hofpflaster zur dritten Dimension. Der Kontext der Graffiti des Chnumtempelvorhofs von Elephantine / Tobias Krapf -- Words for the living and the dead. The Coptic inscriptions of Deir Anba Hadra / Lena S. Krastel -- Tightrope dancing. Research on religious building decorations on Ptolemaic-Roman Elephantine / Ewa Laskowska-Kusztal -- Cross-cultural contact reflected in rock-art from Rod el-Air, south-western Sinai / Ludwig D. Morenz -- Religion and epigraphy at Elephantine in the Graeco-Roman Period / Hana Navratilova -- The case of the deity Neilammon / Ian Rutherford -- Rock art through the ages / Maria Nilsson -- Rupestrian memoranda at Gebel el-Silsila / John Ward -- World of images or imaginary world? Rock art, landscape, and agency in the Western Desert of Egypt / Paweł L. Polkowski -- Walking up Hermupolis high street: lost in translation? Script in public spaces of Hellenistic Egypt and beyond / Cornelia Ṟmer -- Who carved first? A methodological approach for analysing the stratigraphy of intersecting and interacting rock art at the 'resting-place' of Rod el-Air, south-western Sinai / David Sabel

Call Number

JFG 22-38

ISBN

• 9783447113847
• 3447113847

LCCN

9783447113847

OCLC

1197943799

Title

Epigraphy through five millennia : texts and images in context / edited by Svenja C. Dirksen and Lena S. Krastel.

Publisher

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sonderschrift ; 43, 1868-9450

Sonderschrift (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo) ; 43.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

17 English, 2 German contributions.

Added Author

Dirksen, Svenja C., editor.

Krastel, Lena S., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9783447113847

Research Call Number

JFG 22-38