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Title Creatures of Earth, water and sky : essays on animals in ancient Egypt and Nubia
Published [Place of publication not identified] : SIDESTONE Press, 2019

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Contents Intro -- Abstracts -- Preface -- L'exploitation de l'autruche dans l'Égypte ancienne -- l'exemple des perles en coquille d'œuf d'autruche. -- Halima Ali Toybou -- Scanning Sobek -- Mummy of the Crocodile God -- Julie Anderson & Daniel Antoine -- Donkey Burials at Tell El-Yahudia -- Aiman Ashmawy Ali -- À propos des noms d'espèces appartenant au sous-ordre des Sauria (lézards) attestés en Égypte ancienne et médiévale -- Un tour d'horizon zoologique et lexicographique -- Sydney H. Aufrère -- Early Travellers and the Animal 'Mummy Pits' of Egypt
Exploration and Exploitation of the Animal Catacombs in the Age of Early Travel -- Tessa T. Baber -- From Egyptology to Ornithology -- The Cults of Sacred Falcons and The Musée des Confluences' Raptor Mummies -- Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer -- Interpreting the Faunal Remains from the Tombs at the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II in Western Thebes -- Funerary Practices, Ritual Practices or, Perhaps, Something Else? -- Fabio Bona, Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino & Angelo Sesana
Une analyse chimique de la composition de baumes de momies animales égyptiennes conservées au musée des Confluences (Lyon, France) -- Manon Bondetti, Stéphanie Porcier, Matthieu Ménager & Cathy Vieillescaze -- Économie du culte des animaux sacrés en Égypte hellénistique et romaine -- Silvia Bussi -- Bœufs d'Égypte, bœufs du Soudan -- Une morphologie différente? -- Louis Chaix -- L'étude des momies animales du musée des Confluences à Lyon -- L'exemple des momies de poissons -- Alain Charron -- Des chiens et des bandelettes
Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Cécile Callou & Fleur Letellier-Willemin -- Trapping Baqet's Rat -- Linda Evans -- De la valeur emblématique des dromadaires en terre cuite d'Égypte -- Jérôme Gonzalez -- Formes et figures animales dans le mobilier égyptien -- Hélène Guichard -- Shedding New Light on Old Corpses -- Developments in the Field of Animal Mummy Studies -- Salima Ikram -- Mummies from the City of Canine Deities -- An Analysis of Canid Osteofaunal Remains from the Tomb of the Dogs on Gebel Asyut al-Gharbi, Asyut, Middle Egypt -- Chiori Kitagawa
Emploi et symbolisme des cornes de bovins au Protodynastique -- Exemples d'Abou Rawach -- Joséphine Lesur -- Appréhender les momies autrement -- L'étude des textiles des momies de gazelles du musée des Confluences à Lyon -- Fleur Letellier-Willemin -- Known and Unknown Animals in a Bilingual Glossary on a Papyrus from Egypt, and the Egyptian Effect on the Small Animal of Callimachus -- Nikos Litinas -- Mummies at Manchester -- Applying the Manchester Methodology to the Study of Mummified Animal Remains from Ancient Egypt -- Lidija McKnight & Stephanie Woolham -- The North Ibis Catacomb At Saqqara
Summary Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in our knowledge still remain. This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the Roman period. The essays cover topics such as animal husbandry, mummification, species-specific studies, the archaeology and economy of the animal cults, funerary practices, iconography and symbolism. The contribution of archaeometrical methods, such as
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Subject Human-animal relationships -- Egypt -- History
Human-animal relationships -- Nubia -- History
Animals -- Religious aspects.
Animals -- Religious aspects
Human-animal relationships
Africa -- Nubia
Egypt
Ägypten Altertum
Nubien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Porcier, Stéphanie
Ikram, Salima
Pasquali, Stéphane
ISBN 9789088907739
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9789088907715
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