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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stevenson, Alice[Herausgeber]

Titel

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology : characters and collections

Ort / Verlag

London : UCL Press

Erscheinungsjahr

©2015

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction: a modest little museum / Alice Stevenson and Debbie Challis -- Violette Lafleur: bombs, boxes and one brave lady / Helen Pike -- The earliest evidence for people in Egypt: the first tools / Norah Moloney -- Out of this world: prehistoric space beads / Alice Stevenson -- Abu Bagousheh: Father of Pots / Alice Stevenson -- Lost and found: the rediscovery of the Tarkhan dress / Janet Johnstone -- The lost lions of Koptos / Alice Stevenson -- King Catfish and his mud seals / Pia Edqvist -- Pulling early kingship together / Richard Bussmann -- A face in the crowd: chance encounters with Egyptian sculpture / Alice Stevenson -- Best foot forward: items of ancient Egyptian dress / Tracey Golding -- Pyramids in the Petrie / Alice Stevenson -- An offending member / Debbie Challis and Alice Stevenson -- Wandering wombs and wicked water: the 'gynaecological' papyrus / Carole Reeves -- Ali Suefi of Lahun and the gold cylinder / Stephen Quirke ---
• Seth: seductions and stelae / John J. Johnston -- Termites and tapioca: the survival of Amarna's colours / Lucia Gahlin -- The sacred geometry of music and harmony / Sherif Abouelhadid -- Reconnecting across the centuries: fragments from Abydos / Alice Stevenson -- 'While skulls bobbed around on the waves...': retrieving Horwedja's shabtis / Campbell Price -- Revealing animals: discoveries inside funerary bundles / Lidija McKnight -- Miw: the Langton Cat Collection / Debbie Challis -- Myth and science: ancient glass collections / Daniela Rosenow -- 'She smites the legions of men': a Greek goddess in Egypt / Edmund Connolly -- Journeys to the Afterlife / Alice Stevenson -- Living images: funerary portraits from Roman times / Jan Picton -- 'Tis the Season: annual exhibitions in archaeology / Amara Thornton -- The archaeology of race: Petrie's Memphis heads / Debbie Challis -- Hakubutsukan: Egypt between East Asia and England / Alice Stevenson -- From China to Sudan / Debbie Challis ---
• The ancient Kushite city of Meroe / Kandaoe Chimblri -- He Tells Tales of Meroe / Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi -- 'Camel, O camel, come and fetch and carry': on two camels / Jennifer Cromwell -- Composed of air and light: a rare survival from medieval Egypt / Carolyn Perry -- 'To my wife, on whose toil most of my work has depended': women on excavation / Alice Stevenson -- 'The largest and the only fully dated collection': Xia Nai and Egyptian beads / Alice Stevenson