Egypt

Ägyptische Terrakotten in Würzburg (Schenkung Gütte)

Heft 2: Götter I. Griechische und ägyptische Gottheiten

17 x 24 cm, 104 p., paperback / softback
49.00 €
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This booklet continues the publication of the Egyptian terracotta figurines from the F. Gütte donation in the Martin von Wagner-Museum of Würzburg University. While the previous volume presented the animal terracottas, 90 figures of divinities are published in the present …

„Der Löwe auf dem Schlachtfeld“

Das Grab KV 36 und die Bestattung des Maiherperi im Tal der Könige

22.5 x 31.5 cm, 512 p., hardback
198.00 €
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Die im März 1899 durch den französichen Ägyptologen V. Loret nahezu intakt aufgefundene Bestattung des königlichen Wedelträgers Maiherperi im Tal der Könige (KV 36) gehört zu den wenigen Begräbnissen des frühen Neuen Reiches (1550–1075 v. Chr.) in der thebanischen Nekropole, …

Rings of the Ancient World

Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman Rings from the Slava Yevdayev Collection

17 x 24 cm, 152 p., hardback
59.00 €
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The Yevdayev Collection of ancient rings comprises 59 superb examples from Egypt, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome, dating from the second millennium BC to the fourth century AD. The variety of rings is remarkable and includes not only examples …

Boote, Burgen, Bischarin

Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900

21 x 27 cm, 280 p., hardback
79.00 €
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In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the Ernst-von-Sieglin-Expedition to Siwa Oasis were utilized to finance the expedition. Taking part were …

Kaiser, Senatoren und Gelehrte

Untersuchungen zum spätantiken männlichen Privatporträt

22.5 x 31.5 cm, 456 p., 150 Tafeln, 1 Beilage, hardback
98.00 €
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Ein wichtiges Phänomen im römischen Porträt ist das „Zeitgesicht“, die Angleichung der Bürger an das Bildnis des Kaisers. Zur Zeit Konstantins des Großen wird jedoch nach 300 Jahren dieser unmittelbar erfahrbare Reflex der zuvor prägenden Prinzipatsideologie aufgegeben und insbesondere die …

Satire und Kontext

Gesellschaftskritik in den Dramen des ägyptischen Autors Ali Salem

17 x 24 cm, 272 p., hardback
69.00 €
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This study examines the dramas of the Egyptian writer Ali Salem (b. 1936). In addition to determining Salem’s position in literary history and outlining developments in modern Arab theatre, the contemporary dramatist’s plays written in Egyptian dialect are given detailed …

Bearbeitet von Gertrud Platz-Horster. Fotografiert von Bernhard Platz und Johannes Laurentius

Erhabene Bilder

Die Kameen in der Antikensammlung Berlin

21 x 28 cm, 408 p., hardback
78.00 €
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The cameos in the Department of Antiquities at the State Museums in Berlin originate in the Kunstkammer of the Brandenburg Electors. The largely unpublished stock of 875 ancient, baroque and classicistic cameos mirror its changeful history of acquisition, loss and …

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

17 x 24 cm, 304 p., hardback
79.00 €
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Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for life but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who …

Westcar on the Nile

A journey through Egypt in the 1820s

21 x 27 cm, 264 p., 1 farbige Karte, 1 Stammbaum, hardback
49.00 €
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On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a …

Ornamentale Purpurwirkereien

De variis purpureis segmentis, paragaudis, clavis et ceteris ornamentis cum ornamento

17 x 24 cm, 1686 p., hardback
348.00 €
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The textile finds from Egypt provide a special quantitative and qualitative value to the ornamental purple textiles. They can be counted as a chief representative of ornamental work in “Coptic” art.
In some respects, this three-volume work attempts to lay the …

Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen

Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
128.00 €
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The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than 600 original pieces of headwear from the late Roman and early Byzantine …

Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit

Zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten (1860 bis 1908)

17 x 24 cm, 224 p., hardback
59.00 €
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This socio-literary study examines the relationship between processes of modernisation and reform, and new literary genres produced in Egypt of the second half of the 19th century. How did heterogenous modern literary forms emerge in this particular environment, and what …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
79.00 €
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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

Die koptischen Textilien im »museum kunst palast« Düsseldorf

Teil 2: Figürliche und ornamentale Purpur- und Buntwirkereien

Teil 2
17 x 24 cm, 972 p., und CD-Rom mit 588 farbigen Fotos, hardback
248.00 €
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The catalogue refers to the publication of the first part of the textile collection of the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf, prepared by Karl-Heinz Brune. Presenting 276 catalogue numbers it completes in the main the publication of those textiles stored …