Evolving Egypt
Subtitle: innovation, appropriation, and reinterpretation in ancient Egypt
By: edited by Kerry Muhlestein
Series: BAR international series -- 2397
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781407309903
Subjects: Congresses; Antiquities; History
Notes: "In February 2006, an international Egyptological conference entitled Evolving Egypt: innovatio, appropriation, and reinterpretation in ancient Egypt was sponsed by Brigham Young University (BYU) and Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii). The conference was held at BYU-Hawaii..."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English with one in French.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Abbreviations of journal and series titles; title: Possibilities and pitfalls in identifying innovation: the early Ramesside Era as a case study / Kerry Muhlestein; title: Les bateaux et le sacré dans l'ancienne Egypt / Ana María Rosso; title: Symbolic connotations of pyramid temples in the 5th and 6th dynasties / Pål Steiner; title: Dating of stelae of the 12th dynasty: a statistical approach / Des Bright; title: The expansionist policies of the New Kingdom and the increase in craft specialization in the textile industry / Giovanni Tata; title: Copy and reinterpretation in the tomb of Nakht: ancient Egyptian hermeneutics / Vale̊rie Angenot; title: The daily cult: space, continuity and change / Robyn Gillam; title: Glossed over: ancient Egyptian interpretations of their religion / John Gee; title: The hieratic scribal tradition in preexilic Judah / David Calabro; title: Ptolemaic translation and representation: the Hellenistic sculptural program of the Memphite Sarapieion / Shanna Kennedy-Quigley; title: Appropriation of Egyptian judgment in the Testament of Abraham? / Jared Ludlow; title: New evidence of Coptic mummification techniques from Tell El-Hibeh, Middle Egypt / Robert M. Yohe II, Jill K. Gardner, and Deanna Heikkinen.