TEMPLES OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Autor/es
- EAN: 9781860643293
- ISBN: 978-1-86064-329-3
- Editorial: I.B. TAURIS
- Año de la edición: 1997
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 X 16 cm.
- Páginas: 336
- Materias:
historia: arquitectura y arte
arte y arquitectura egipcia
templos
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An important survey of ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. Shafer - a renowned Egyptologist - covers the entire pharaonic era, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period. He offers a fresh perspective on ritual and its cultural significance, demonstrating the role of temples as loci for the creative interplay of sacred space and sacred time. The book challenges the traditional division of temples into the categories of either "mortuary" or "divine", showing that their functions and symbolic representations were, at once,
