Echoes of Egypt
Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs
Published on 28. June 2013
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Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-933789-00-2 (ISBN)
Description
Echoes of Egypt is a catalogue accompanying an exhibit at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Edited by Colleen Manassa, the catalogue also includes entries by international experts. Documenting two thousand years of the reception of ancient Egypt throughout the world, Echoes of Egypt transcends the typical account on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 'Egyptomania'. The first chapter includes a chronological overview of the exhibit, ranging from ancient Meroe, Greece and Rome, and medieval Arab-Islamic fascination with hieroglyphs to Piranesi's interior designs and the impact of Napoleon's invasion. Additional chapters focus on the meaning and changing uses of hieroglyphs, 'mummy mania' and Egyptosophy. Full colour images complement the text.
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English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933789-00-2 (9781933789002)
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Colleen Manassa, curator of Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs, is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Associate Professor of Egyptology at Yale University. She is the author or co-author of five books on topics including military history, Egyptian religion, and literature of the New Kingdom, and author of numerous articles on art history, philology, and sensory experience in ancient Egypt. She is also director of the Mo'alla Survey Project.
Content
Chapter 1: Looking through the Pylon: An Overview of Echoes of Egypt
A Pylon in an American Landscape
The Grove Street Cemetery Gate
The Winged Sun Disk
Ancient Egyptian Temples and the Cosmos
Imagining the Ancient Nile Valley
Ancient Echoes of Egypt: Greece, Rome, and Meroe
Egyptianizing Meroitic Objects
Egyptianizing Graeco-Roman Objects
Egyptian Revivals from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Christians, Muslims, Scholars
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Ancient Artifacts, Modern Design
From Napoleon's Expedition to the Present: Egyptology and Egyptomania
Fifty Years Later: The Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Nubia
Chapter 2: Mysterious Hieroglyphs
Origins of Egyptian Writing
Artful Hieroglyphs and Everyday Writing
From Hieroglyphs to the Alphabet
The Last Datable Hieroglyphic Inscription
Coptic: The Final Stage of the Egyptian Language
Egyptomania in Medieval Arab Culture: The Case of Ibn Wahshiyya
From the Renaissance to British Satire
Jean-Francois Champollion and Decipherment
A Text of Greeting
Chapter 3: Mummy-Mania
The Coffin of Paib and Its Mummy
"One God, One Pot:" Animal Mummies
George Gliddon and Nineteenth-century Mummy Unwrappings
It Comes to Life: Mummies in Popular Culture
Chapter 4: Egyptosophy: Magic, Alchemy, and Hermeticism
The Uroboros: A Magical Symbol of the Cosmos
Magical Gems Alchemy and Its Egyptian Origins
Alchemy in Egyptian Mining Practice Hermeticism
From Athanasius Kircher to Sor Juana
Inez de la Cruz Natacha Rambova: A Connecticut Egyptosophist
A Pylon in an American Landscape
The Grove Street Cemetery Gate
The Winged Sun Disk
Ancient Egyptian Temples and the Cosmos
Imagining the Ancient Nile Valley
Ancient Echoes of Egypt: Greece, Rome, and Meroe
Egyptianizing Meroitic Objects
Egyptianizing Graeco-Roman Objects
Egyptian Revivals from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Christians, Muslims, Scholars
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Ancient Artifacts, Modern Design
From Napoleon's Expedition to the Present: Egyptology and Egyptomania
Fifty Years Later: The Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Nubia
Chapter 2: Mysterious Hieroglyphs
Origins of Egyptian Writing
Artful Hieroglyphs and Everyday Writing
From Hieroglyphs to the Alphabet
The Last Datable Hieroglyphic Inscription
Coptic: The Final Stage of the Egyptian Language
Egyptomania in Medieval Arab Culture: The Case of Ibn Wahshiyya
From the Renaissance to British Satire
Jean-Francois Champollion and Decipherment
A Text of Greeting
Chapter 3: Mummy-Mania
The Coffin of Paib and Its Mummy
"One God, One Pot:" Animal Mummies
George Gliddon and Nineteenth-century Mummy Unwrappings
It Comes to Life: Mummies in Popular Culture
Chapter 4: Egyptosophy: Magic, Alchemy, and Hermeticism
The Uroboros: A Magical Symbol of the Cosmos
Magical Gems Alchemy and Its Egyptian Origins
Alchemy in Egyptian Mining Practice Hermeticism
From Athanasius Kircher to Sor Juana
Inez de la Cruz Natacha Rambova: A Connecticut Egyptosophist