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The pharaohs / Edited by Christiane Ziegler

Contributor(s):

Ziegler, Christiane

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Rizzoli , c2002Description: 511 p. : illus. ; 30 cmISBN:

9780847825073

Uniform titles:

Toller Cranston Collection

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

REF 709.32 FRA

Contents:

Summary: Ancient Egypt was arguably the greatest civilization in the world and continues to fascinate huge audiences. Its complex political system, maintained by the autocratic rule of the pharaohs, is the subject of a landmark exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. This accompanying catalogue gathers preeminent Egyptologists from the most respected institutions around the world, presenting research on every aspect of pharoanic existence, from the life in the palace to making of funerary monuments and texts.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Consulta / Referencia	REF 709.32 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021235

Pharaohs and history -- Predynastic period / Günter Dreyer, Christiane Ziegler -- Old kingdom / Alessandro Roccati -- Middle kingdom / Sydney H. Aufrère -- New kingdom / David P. Silverman -- Third intermediate kingdom / Mamduh el-Damaty, Isabelle Franco -- Late period / Edda Bresciani -- Pharaonic regality. The nature of power / Dominique Valbelle -- State and administration / Pierre Grandet -- Warrior pharaoh. The conquest of the world / Nicolas Grimal -- Ritualist pharaoh. The religious cult / Claude Traunecker -- Builder pharaoh. The temples -- Temples of the new kingdom / Rainer Stadelmann -- Image of the sovereign -- Eternal presence. The image of the pharaoh in Egyptian sculpture / Dietrich Wildung -- Pharaoh in the propagandistic documents of the new kingdom / Francesco Tiradritti -- Accession of a pharaoh / Bernard Mathieu -- Royal family -- Queen of the new kingdom / Christiane Ziegler -- Royal palace. Architecture, decoration and furnishings / Dorothea Arnold -- Royal tombs -- Tombs of the pharaohs in the new kingdom. Architecture and decoration / Erik Hornung -- Funerary texts from the Valley of the Kings / Isabelle Franco -- Funerary equipment / Anna Maria Donadoni Roveri -- Royal mummies -- Mummification and burial of the pharaohs / Francis Janot -- Mummies of the new kingdom in the Egyptian Museum / Nasry Iskander.

Ancient Egypt was arguably the greatest civilization in the world and continues to fascinate huge audiences. Its complex political system, maintained by the autocratic rule of the pharaohs, is the subject of a landmark exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. This accompanying catalogue gathers preeminent Egyptologists from the most respected institutions around the world, presenting research on every aspect of pharoanic existence, from the life in the palace to making of funerary monuments and texts.

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