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"From prehistoric figurines and graffiti to modern digital photographs, human beings repeatedly produced images, transforming the world itself into a relentless fabric of images. This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference held at the Institute of Archaeology - UCL, London in 2014 inside the framework of the European project 'EPOCHS', with the aim to explore the fertile imaginary world of Middle Bronze Age Egypt (2000-1500 BC). Images do not exist in their ontological isolation, as atomic unity, but they form a complex agency network with other images and with the society that produced them, hence the title 'Company of Images'. Eighteen papers focus on this intricate web, tackling the topic from different perspectives: material culture, archaeological finds, anthropological and social relations, iconographic representations, and analysis of the written sources, including linguistic approaches. The final goal is to highlight theoretical and methodological issues in order to explore connections between the images and their society, people who created images and who were recursively affected by the images they created"-- Publisher's website.

Title Company of images : modelling the imaginary world of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1500 BC) : proceedings of the International Conference of the EPOCHS Project, held 18th-20th September 2014 at UCL, London / edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Marilina Betro and Stephen Quirke.
Contributors Miniaci, Gianluca (editor)
Betrò, Maria C. (editor)
Quirke, Stephen (editor)
Publisher Leuven
Paris : Bristol, CT : Peeters
Creation Date 2017
Notes International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references.
Content Decoration and image on Middle Kingdom pottery: can fish dishes be read? / Susan J. Allen -- Conceptions of demons in the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts / Zuzanna Bennett -- Middle Kingdom dog figurines. General remarks / Kamila Braulińska -- Personal piety: an archaeological response / Richard Bussmann -- The hippopotamus goddess carrying a crocodile on her back: an iconographical motif distinctive of the late Middle Kingdom / Sabrina Ceruti -- 'Paddle dolls' - ritual figurines of fertility / Roberto A. Díaz Hernández -- From the workshop to the grave: the case of wooden funerary models / Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer -- A zoo en-miniature: the impact of the central government on the rise and fall of animal/zoomorphic amulets' production during the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom / Wolfram Grajetzki -- No imagined worlds, no imagined achievements. Veracity statements in Twelfth Dynasty auto/biographies with military-like topic / Renata Landgráfová -- Unbroken stories: Middle Kingdom faience figurines in their archaeological context / Gianluca Miniaci -- Middle Kingdom clappers, dancers, birth magic, and the reinvention of ritual / Ellen Morris -- 'An image of the owner as he was on earth'. Representation and ontology in Middle Kingdom funerary images / Rune Nyord -- Figuring migrations: severing and joining power lines / Stephen Quirke -- The four primeval elements of creation according to the philosophy of Hermopolis: a new interpretation of their origin / Mohamed Gamal Rashed -- The Middle Bronze Age Egyptian griffon: whence and whither? / Lisa K. Sabbahy -- Notes on type 1 truncated figurines: the Ramesseum ladies / Angela M. J. Tooley -- A deposit of female figurines from Gebelein (Schiaparelli's campaign in 1910) / Marcella Trapani -- Raise yourself up: mortuary imagery in the tomb of Woseribre Seneb-Kay / Josef Wegner.
Series Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 0777-978X
262
Extent xiv, 511 pages : illustrations (partly color)
26 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990041019970205171
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