Roman Portraits and Memphis IV, Tarkhan I and Memphis V, Tarkhan II
Title | Roman Portraits and Memphis IV, Tarkhan I and Memphis V, Tarkhan II PDF eBook |
Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 110806616X |
Reissued here together are three well-illustrated excavation reports, first published 1911-14, relating to important archaeological sites in Egypt.
Tarkhan II
Title | Tarkhan II PDF eBook |
Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Egypt |
ISBN |
Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent
Title | Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Tadgell |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 1143 |
Release | 2023-12-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1003803369 |
Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides, Christopher Tadgell’s History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India’s pre-colonial architectural history – from the Vedic and Native traditions of early India, through Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and secular architecture. This comprehensive revision, Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent: From the Mauryas to the Mughals, expands the structure to acknowledge the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. An understanding of Indian history and religion is the basis for understanding the complex pattern of relationships in the evolution of architecture in the subcontinent. Therefore, background material covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments and their significance and repercussions, and external architectural precedents. While avoiding the usual division of the subject into ‘Buddhist and Hindu’ and ‘Islamic’ parts in order to trace continuity, the importance of religion, symbolism and myth to the development of characteristic Indian architectural forms in all their richness and complexity is fully explained in this fully illustrated account of the subcontinent’s architecture.
Prehistoric Egypt
Title | Prehistoric Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | W.M. Flinders Petrie |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 2023-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 description and catalog of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt. Draws together evidence from various excavations and surveys undertaken by himself and others to present a fully illustrated, detailed catalog of recovered artifacts of flint, other stone, clay, pottery, ivory/tusk and bone, metalwork, wood, shell and glass. He attempts to establish relative dating sequence based on a combination of object typologies and grave associations, combined with the then-latest geological and sedimentological information, concluding that the material covered a period from around 10,000–5000 BC. Objects are described by material and form, set within his established chronological framework.
Doors, Entrances and Beyond... Various Aspects of Entrances and Doors of the Tombs in the Memphite Necropoleis during the Old Kingdom
Title | Doors, Entrances and Beyond... Various Aspects of Entrances and Doors of the Tombs in the Memphite Necropoleis during the Old Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Roeten |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2021-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789698723 |
Doors are more than a physical means to close off an entrance or an exit; they can also indicate a boundary between two worlds. This volume considers the Memphite Necropoleis during the Old Kingdom, and proposes that porticos, false doors, niches and mastaba chapel entrances are interconnected in their function as a barrier between two worlds.
Publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Title | Publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Egypt |
ISBN |
Loaves, beds, plants and Osiris: Considerations about the emergence of the Cult of Osiris
Title | Loaves, beds, plants and Osiris: Considerations about the emergence of the Cult of Osiris PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Roeten |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2018-11-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784919675 |
The emergence of the cult of Osiris is generally posited to have occurred quite suddenly at the end of the 5th dynasty. This study considers evidence to suggest this appearance was preceded by a period of development of the theology and mythology of the cult.