Egypt's mysterious Book of the Faiyum
By: Horst Beinlich, Regine Schulz, Alfried Wieczorek (eds.).
Contributors: Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.); Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum; Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Publisher: J.H. Röll Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dettelbach
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9783897544390
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Exhibitions; Egyptian language; Papyri; Book of the Fayum
Notes: On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October 6, 2013 - January 5, 2014; Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, September 20, 2014 - January 19, 2015; Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums, Mannheim, February 22 - June 21, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In memoriam Ingeborg Schramm; title: The creation of the world - on the variety of ancient Egyptian creation myths / Regine Schulz; title: The Book of the Faiyum / Horst Beinlich; title: Greco-Roman period demotic texts from the Faiyum and their relationship to the Book of the Faiyum / Richard Jasnow; title: Greeks in an Egyptian landscape : the Faiyum under Ptolemaic and Roman rule / Andrew Monson; title: Art and artists in the Faiyum in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods / Wendy Cheshire.