Ancient Egyptian Figured Ostraca

Anthea Page (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2023
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-024-1 (ISBN)

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Facsimile reissue of 1983 catalogue of 82 ostraca held in the Petrie Collection depicting a range of subjects from caricatures, birds and people, to votive and dedicatory pieces.

This facsimile reissue of Anthea Page’s 1983 catalogue makes this important source material available again in print for a new generation of students and scholars. The catalogue documents 82 ostraca held in The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology collection in London.

Ostraca are flakes of limestone or broken sherds of pottery used essentially as 'notepads' for private letters; laundry lists; records of purchases; roughly inscribed images of people, birds, and animals; and copies of literary works. In Ancient Egypt they reveal the artist-craftsman at practice, leisure and play. Apprentices, for instance, copied scenes to improve techniques; artists drew pictures to amuse, perhaps with satirical images and caricatures, or made measured studies for finished works. A wide range of trivial examples survive, together with more serious devotional, votive and dedicatory pieces.

At the time of original publication, Anthea Page was based in the Department of Egyptology at University College London and worked on cataloguing material in the Petrie Collection.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Catalogue

Appendix 1: Classification of the material of the pottery ostraca

Appendix 2: Sketches on pottery vessels

Concordance of Museum and Catalogue numbers

Plates

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-024-1 / 9798888570241
Zustand	Neuware