Main entry:

Riggs, Christina.

Title & Author:

The beautiful burial in Roman Egypt : art, identity, and funerary religion / Christina Riggs.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description:

xxi, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-321) and index.
1. Introduction : art, identity and funerary religion -- 2. Osiris, Hathor, and the gendered dead -- 3. Portraying the dead -- 4. Art and archaism in Western Thebes -- 5. Conclusions : the 'beautiful burial' in Roman Egypt.

Resources:
2005.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Klappentext

ISBN:

019927665X (hbk.)
9780199276653

Subject:

Funeral rites and ceremonies Egypt.
Burial Egypt History To 1500.
Art, Egyptian.
Romans Egypt.
Art égyptien.
15.51 Antiquity.
Burial
Civilization
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Romans
Bestattung
Römerzeit
Begrafenissen.
Graftomben.
Romeinse oudheid.
Burial Egypt History 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt Civilization 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Égypte Civilisation 332 av. J.-C.-640.
Egypt
Ägypten
Egypt Religious life and customs.
Ägypten (Altertum)

Form/genre:

History
Theses.

Added entries:

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246331
Call No.: BIB 175931
Status: Available