Imaging and Imagining the Memphite Necropolis
Subtitle: Liber Amicorum Rene Van Walsem
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789042935648
Subjects: Art, egyptian; Excavations (archaeology); Egypt, antiquities
Description: This book is a mixture of archaeological, literary and iconographic studies, all relating to the representation, visualization and reconstruction of the material culture and art of the ancient Egyptian burial grounds of the city of Memphis through time. This 'Liber amicorum' is offered to René van Walsem on the occasion of his retirement. He has been lecturer in Egyptology at Leiden University since 1979 and was joint field director of the Dutch archaeological mission at Saqqara from 1999 until 2007. The volume contains twenty-four articles written by academics from around the world.