Title The temple in ancient Egypt : new discoveries and recent research / edited by Stephen Quirke
Publication Info London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1997
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  536.3 T243    CHECKED OUT
 Egyptian Art  536.3 T243    REQUESTABLE
Description x, 241 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm
Contents The development of the pyramid temple in the Fourth Dynasty / Rainer Stadelmann -- News from Abusir / Paule Posener-Krieger -- Gods in the temple of the king: Anubis at Lahun / Stephen Quirke -- Quelques reflexions sur le programme iconographique et la fonction des temples de "millions d'annees" / Christian Leblanc -- The statue program for the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III / Betsy Bryan -- The Middle Kingdom temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim / Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle -- The temples at Memphis. Problems highlighted by the EES survey / Jaromir Malek -- The temple of Behbeit el-Hagara / Christine Favard-Meeks -- Sacred Animal temples at Saqqara / Sue Davies and H. S. Smith -- The sun god, his four Bas and the four winds in the sacred district at Sais: the fragment of an obelisk (BM EA 1512) / Susanne Woodhouse -- The present state of research into Graeco-Roman temples / Dieter Kurth -- Excavating the forgotten temple of Shenhur (Upper Egypt) / Jan Quaegebeur -- Lessons from the Upper Egyptian temple of el-Qala / Claude Traunecker -- Slaughtering the crocodile at Edfu and Dendera / Penelope Wilson -- A painting of the gods of Dakhla in the temple of Ismant el-Kharab / Olaf E. Kaper -- Temples as symbols, guarantors, and participants in Egyptian civilization / John Baines
Notes English and French
Papers from a colloquium held at the British Museum Department of Egyptian Antiquities, July 21-22, 1994 with further invited contributions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subjects Temples -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses
Temples, Greek -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses
Temples, Roman -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt -- Congresses
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Egypt -- Antiquities, Greek -- Congresses
Egypt -- Antiquities, Roman -- Congresses
Additional Authors Quirke, Stephen.
British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
Material Type Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN 0714109932
OCLC 38283479