Beyond the Nile : Egypt and the classical world
Title:
Beyond the Nile : Egypt and the classical world
JLCTITLE245:
Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, Sara E. Cole, editors.
Uniform Title:
Beyond the Nile (2018)
Publication Information:
Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2018]
Physical Description:
xv, 344 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm
ISBN:
9781606065518
General Note:
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from March 27 to September 9, 2018"--title page verso.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Memphis, Minos, and Mycenae: Bronze Age contact between Egypt and the Aegean / Jorrit M. Kelder, Sara E. Cole, Eric H. Cline -- Contact points: Avaris and Pi-Ramesse / Manfred Bietak and Constance von Ruden -- In the midst of the great green: Egypto-Aegean trade and exchange / Jorrit M. Kelder and Eric H. Cline -- The sea peoples / Eric H. Cline -- The Greeks in Egypt: renewed contact in the Iron Age / Alexandra Villing -- Contact points: Memphis, Naukratis, and the Greek east / Henry P. Colburn -- The coming of Alexander and Egypt under Ptolemaic rule / Alan B. Lloyd -- Contact points: Alexandria, a Hellenistic capital in Egypt / Thomas Landvatter -- King and pharaoh: religious encounters and the ruler cult in Ptolemaic Egypt / Stefano Caneva -- Portrait sculpture in Ptolemaic Egypt / Robert Steven Bianchi -- Multiculturalism in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: language contact through the evidence of papyri and inscriptions / Luigi Prada -- Roman Egypt and Egypt in Rome / Rolf Michael Schneider -- Contact points: the image and reception of Egypt and its gods in Rome / John Pollini -- Art and identity in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs -- Traveling gods: the cults of Isis in the Roman Empire / Laurent Bricault -- Egypt and/in/as Rome / Miguel John Versluys.