Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface; 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.
