Liber Amicorum-Speculum Siderum : Papers Presented to Alicia Maravelia.

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Author / Creator:Guilhou, Nadine.
Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017.
Description:1 online resource (399 p.).
Language:English
Series:Archaeopress Egyptology Ser. ; v.17
Archaeopress Egyptology Ser.
Subject:Egyptology.
Egyptology.
Egyptology.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12873269
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Other authors / contributors:Maniati, Antigoni.
ISBN:1784915238
9781784915230
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Summary:In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia.
Other form:Print version: Guilhou, Nadine Liber Amicorum-Speculum Siderum: Nūt Astrophoros Oxford : Archaeopress,c2017
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Summary:In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries (Hellas, Egypt, France, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Turkey, Australia) have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia, whose important work in Egyptology and in the foundation of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology are highly acknowledged. This book, with foreword by His Eminence the Archbishop of Sinai and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Mgr Damianos, contains thirty original articles, two abstracts and a plethora of accompanying texts including Dr Maravelia's list of publications. The book is divided into three parts: 1. Nūt and the Realm of Stars [15 contributions]; 2. Ancient Egyptian Religion and its Celestial Undertones [12 contributions]; and 3. Ancient Egyptian Science, Medicine, Archaeoanthropology, Egyptomania, Egyptophilia, etc. [5 contributions]. The reader will find papers that deal mainly with the goddess Nūt and her mythology and cosmographic notions related to her, the stars and other celestial luminaries, orientations of monuments, ancient Egyptian constellations and decans, the notion of time, calendars, religious and funerary observances related to the sky, ancient Egyptian religion, religious and amuletic artefacts, religious mythology, as well as archaeoanthropological and medicinal studies, papers on ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Egyptophilia, Egyptomania and ancient Egyptian collections.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (399 p.).
ISBN:1784915238
9781784915230