Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt: Image and Ideology Before the New Kingdom

ISBN-13: 9780367878542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Laurel Bestock

Opis

This book examines the use of images of violence prior to the New Kingdom. By comparing violent images from a variety of other times and cultures the book asks that we consider how Egyptian imagery was related to Egyptian violence, and why people create pictures of violence and place them where they do, and how such images communi

Spis treści

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Chronological chart

Chapter 1

Picturing violence

The Structure of this Book

Themes

Chapter 2

The Origins of Violent Imagery

The Earliest Images of Violence in Egypt

The Evidence from Early Egypt: Naqada I

The Evidence from Early Egypt: Naqada II

Order and Chaos

Chapter 3

The Violence Inherent in the System: Imagery and Royal Ideology in the Period of State Formation

Violence in Egyptian Art in the Period of State Formation

Violence in Early Dynastic Imagery

Continuity and Discontinuity

Chapter 4

To Live Forever: The Decoration of Royal Mortuary Complexes

The Old Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom

Interpreting Imagery of Violence from Royal Tombs

Chapter 5

Uniter of the Two Lands: Images of Violence in Divine Temples

Egyptian Temples as a Context for Imagery

Chapter 6

The Preservation of Order: Images in the Landscape

The Early Dynastic Period

The Old Kingdom

Reading Rock Carvings of Smiting

Chapter 7

Out and About: Images of Violence on Portable Objects

Images of Triumph on Portable Objects

Images of Captivity on Portable Objects

Movement and Meaning

Chapter 8

Who is Who? Private Monumental Images of War

The Old Kingdom

The First Intermediate Period

The Middle Kingdom

Inscriptions and Images in Private Tombs

Interpreting Private Images of War

Chapter 9

Violence, Power, Ideology

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Laurel Bestock is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology at Brown University (USA). She received her PhD in Egyptian Archaeology and Art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (USA). She directs excavations in Egypt at the site of Abydos, where she investigates early kingship. In the Sudan, she co-directs excavations at the Egyptian fortress of Uronarti, seeking to understand lifestyles and cultural interactions in a colonial outpost from nearly 4000 years ago. For her next project, she hopes to work on a book focused on food and culture at Uronarti, both anciently and in the context of a modern excavation team camping in tents along the Nile.