An Archaeology of Art and Writing: Early Egyptian Labels in Context

Autor/innen

Kathryn E. Piquette

Schlagwörter:

Archäologie des Todes, Experimentelle Archäologie, Praktische Theorie, Materialität, Frühschriftlichkeit, Kunst

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An Archaeology of Art and Writing offers an in-depth treatment of the image as material culture. Centring on early Egyptian bone, ivory, and wooden labels—one of the earliest inscribed and decorated object groups from burials in the lower Nile Valley—the research is anchored in the image as the site of material action. A key aim of this book is to outline a contextual and reflexive approach to early art and writing as a complement to the traditional focus on iconographic and linguistic meanings. Archaeological and anthropological approaches are integrated with social theories of practice and agency to develop a more holistic perspective that situates early Egyptian imagery in relation to its manufacture, use and final deposition in the funerary context. The dialectical relationships between past embodied practitioners and materials, production techniques, and compositional principles are examined for the insight they provide into changes and continuities in early Egyptian graphical expression across time and space. The electronic version of this book is accompanied by an online database of the inscribed labels, enabling the reader to explore via hyperlinks the fascinating body of evidence that underpins this innovative study.

Please note that this text contains the Egyptian hieroglyphic font Inscribe 2004 (https://archive.org/details/inscribe, usage Public Domain Mark 1.0) and the transliteration font Trlit_CG Times (https://dmd.wepwawet.nl/fonts.htm). We are unable to guarantee the correct rendering of these fonts on all devices. For the intended display of the hieroglyphic and transliteration fonts, see the PDF version of this book: https://doi.org/10.16994/bak

Autor/innen-Biografie

Kathryn E. Piquette

Kathryn Piquette lectures on the archaeology of ancient Egypt and the Near East at the University of Reading. She also lectures in digital humanities at University College London, where she serves as a senior research consultant in advanced digital imaging techniques for cultural heritage. Recent publications include the co-edited Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium.

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2018

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978-3-946198-39-0

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Piquette, K. E. An Archaeology of Art and Writing: Early Egyptian Labels in Context. Modern Academic Publishing, 2018, doi:10.16994/bak.