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The painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun : [masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art in the British Museum] / Richard Parkinson ; photography by Kevin Lovelock.

Title
The painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun : [masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art in the British Museum] / Richard Parkinson ; photography by Kevin Lovelock.
Author
Parkinson, R. B.
Publication
London : British Museum Press, 2008.

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Description
152 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map; 22 x 28 cm.
Summary
"The paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel are among the greatest and most famous of the British Museum's treasures. Yet much about them remains mysterious, and this book is concerned with the detective work undertaken to help us to understand and see them properly before they are displayed in a new permanent gallery in 2008. For this the paintings are being conserved and remounted in the Museum's specialist laboratories, a process that is revealing radical new information about painting techniques in ancient Egypt. This, together with archival work, is helping us to solve the problem of the tomb-chapel's location at Thebes, last seen in the 1820s when the paintings were removed."--Museum website.
Subject
  • Mural painting and decoration, Ancient > Conservation and restoration
  • Mural painting and decoration, Ancient > Egypt
  • Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian > Conservation and restoration
  • Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian
  • Tombs > Conservation and restoration
  • Tombs > Thebes (Extinct city)
Note
  • Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-148) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- A modern view of ancient paintings. Introduction -- Discovery -- The paintings in the British Museum -- In a tomb-chapel. Theban tomb-chapels -- Where and when at Thebes? -- Nebamun at Thebes -- Ancient techniques and modern analysis -- The paintings. Introduction -- Funerary offerings -- The banquet -- Viewing the produce of the estates -- Agricultural scenes -- Offering bringers -- Fishing and fowling in the marshes -- The garden of the west -- Revisiting the tomb-chapel.
ISBN
  • 9780714119793 (pbk.)
  • 0714119792 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008425992
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library