Title & Author:

The temple in ancient Egypt : new discoveries and recent research / edited by Stephen Quirke.

Publication:

London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1997.

Description:

x, 241 pages, 47, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm

Notes:
Papers from a British Museum colloquium, "The Temple in Ancient Egypt," held by the Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities, July 21-22, 1994, with additional invited contributions
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references.
The development of the pyramid temple in the Fourth Dynasty / Rainer Stadelmann -- News from Abusir / Paule Posener-Kriéger -- Gods in the temple of the king : Anubis at Lahun / Stephen Quirke -- Quelques reflexions sur le programme iconographique et la fonction des temples de "millions d'années" / Christian Leblanc -- The statue program for the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III / Betsy Bryan -- The Middle Kingdom temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim / Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle -- The temples at Memphis. Problems highlighted by the EES survey / Jaromir Malek -- The temple of Behbeit el-Hagara / Christine Favard-Meeks -- Sacred animal temples at Saqqara / Sue Davies and H.S. Smith -- The sun god, his for Bas and the four winds in the sacred district at Sais : the fragment of an obelisk (BM EA 1512) / Susanne Woodhouse -- The present state of research into Graeco-Roman temples / Dieter Kurth -- Excavating the forgotten temple of Shenhur (Upper Egypt) / Jan Quaegebeur -- Lessons from the Upper Egyptian temple of el-Qal'a / Claude Traunecker -- Slaughtering the crocodile at Edfu and Dendera / Penelope Wilson -- A Painting of the gods of Dakhla in the temple of Ismant el-Kharab / Olaf E. Kaper -- Temples as symbols, guarantors, and participants in Egyptian civilization / John Baines.
In English; one paper in French.

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ISBN:

0714109932 (paperback)
9780714109930 (paperback)

Subject:

Tempel
Temples Egypt History Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology) Egypt Congresses.
Temples, Greek Egypt History Congresses.
Temples, Roman Egypt History Congresses.
Temples grecs Égypte Histoire Congrès.
Temples romains Égypte Histoire Congrès.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Temples
Temples, Greek
Temples, Roman
Kongress
Tempels.
Oudheid.
Temples, Egyptian Egypt Congresses.
Temples Égypte Histoire Congrès.
Fouilles archéologiques Égypte Congrès.
Egypt Antiquities Congresses.
Égypte Antiquités Congrès.
Egypt
Ägypten
Ancient Egypt (region)
Égypte Antiquités grecques Congrès.
Égypte Antiquités romaines Congrès.

Form/genre:

Kongress London 1994.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.
London (1994)

Added entries:

Quirke, Stephen.
British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193540
Call No.: ID NA215.T46; ID:97-B4591
Status: Available