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Ancient Egypt Emily Teeter

Ancient Egypt By Emily Teeter

Ancient Egypt by Emily Teeter


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Fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published.

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Ancient Egypt: Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute by Emily Teeter

This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published. The artefacts include statues, stelae, tools, games, clothing, coffins, figured ostraca, and papyri; each item is described, and its function and symbolism are discussed. Brief texts are translated. Appendices give museum registration numbers, provenance, and bibliographies.

About Emily Teeter

Emily Teeter is a Research Associate and the Curator of Egyptian and Nubian Antiquities at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; A history of the Egyptian collection; Selections from the collection: Early dynastic period and Old Kingdom; First Intermediate period and Middle Kingdom; New Kingdom and Thjird Intermediate period; The Late period; Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine periods; Glossary; Bibliography of works consulted; Appendices; Indices.

Additional information

GOR012097817
9781885923257
1885923252
Ancient Egypt: Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute by Emily Teeter
Used - Like New
Paperback
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
2003-10-30
160
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