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Fecundity figures, personifications of non-sexual fertily, played a significant role in ancient Egyptian religious art. This detailed and comprehensive investigation of Egyptian iconography during the Old and New Kingdoms aims to classify the types of male and female figures represented, and so understand the intentions behind such personifications, whilst also placing the artwork within its cultural, religious and artistic context. In addition, the study includes a theoretical discussion of the form and function of personifications.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Formerly known as 'Nile gods', fecundity figures - personifications of aspects of non-sexual fertility - have a significant role in the sophisticated iconography of ancient Egypt. In his pioneering study, first published in 1985, John Baines introduces new approaches to Egyptian art and symbolic classification through a study of this distinctive genre. Part 1 analyses the definition of Egyptian personifications, whose role has parallels in many cultures. The focus is on 'formal' personifications - abstractions in language that are names of deities, such as 'Order' or 'Food'. Emblematic personifications are their visual counterparts, signs in the script for concepts like 'Life' that become actors with added human limbs. Part 2 investigates fecundity figures. Their form and its meaning are analysed, as well as the range of their names. The two principal scene types in which they occur, bringing offerings and the heraldic 'uniting of the Two Lands', are reviewed separately. An excursus studies the principle of artistic decorum through the distribution and compatibility of scene and figure types including emblematic personifications.This concept has been very influential in Egyptology since it was introduced in Fecundity figures. The concluding chapter reviews abnormal contexts for fecundity figures, bringing together and extending the findings of the two parts. An appendix presents and analyses the patterning of colour on fecundity figures in the context of cross-cultural issues in colour classification. Part one of this text analyzes the definition of Egyptian personification and Part two investigates fecundity figures. The concluding chapter reviews abnormal contexts for fecundity figures - bringing together the findings of the previous two parts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780900416781
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Formerly known as 'Nile gods', fecundity figures - personifications of aspects of non-sexual fertility - have a significant role in the sophisticated iconography of ancient Egypt. In his pioneering study, first published in 1985, John Baines introduces new approaches to Egyptian art and symbolic classification through a study of this distinctive genre. Part 1 analyses the definition of Egyptian personifications, whose role has parallels in many cultures. The focus is on 'formal' personifications - abstractions in language that are names of deities, such as 'Order' or 'Food'. Emblematic personifications are their visual counterparts, signs in the script for concepts like 'Life' that become actors with added human limbs. Part 2 investigates fecundity figures. Their form and its meaning are analysed, as well as the range of their names. The two principal scene types in which they occur, bringing offerings and the heraldic 'uniting of the Two Lands', are reviewed separately. An excursus studies the principle of artistic decorum through the distribution and compatibility of scene and figure types including emblematic personifications.This concept has been very influential in Egyptology since it was introduced in Fecundity figures. The concluding chapter reviews abnormal contexts for fecundity figures, bringing together and extending the findings of the two parts. An appendix presents and analyses the patterning of colour on fecundity figures in the context of cross-cultural issues in colour classification. Part one of this text analyzes the definition of Egyptian personification and Part two investigates fecundity figures. The concluding chapter reviews abnormal contexts for fecundity figures - bringing together the findings of the previous two parts. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780900416781
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