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Egyptian Art and Architecture

Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology
by Paul T Nicholson and Ian Shaw
A study of the procurement and processing of raw materials employed by the ancient Egyptians over five millennia of the Predynastic and Pharaonic periods (c 5500-332 BC). Topics include inorganic materials (soil, stone, pottery, faience, glass), organic materials (papyrus, basketry, textiles, leatherwork, ivory, wood, oil, fat and wax, resins and adhesives) and food technology (cereal production, brewing and baking, viticulture and wine ...
Hardback. Price GB £165.00

Some Nubian Petroglyphs on Czech Concessions
by M Verner
This book presents results of work by the Czech Institute to catalogue rock art later covered over by the waters of the Aswan High Dam. The symbols discovered are grouped into: Foot and sandal prints; Signs and symbols and Erotica. Despite the problems of dating rock art, the different types of mark discovered seem to show a long tradition and, as well as cataloguing the material, this book contains some interesting discussion about what the ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Temple of Khonsu, Volume 3: The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak: A Manifestation
by Helen Jacquet-Gordon
Graffiti incised on the roof blocks of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak, written in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and Demotic scripts and accompanied by the outlines of pairs of feet, caught the eye of Champollion and other early voyagers who succeeded in ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun: Masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art in the British Museum
by Richard Parkinson
Oxbow says: Among the finest treasures of the British Museum are eleven fragments of paintings from the tomb-chapel of the Egyptian official Nebamun, c.1350BC. Since 1997, a programme of conservation and research has focused on these paintings, making possible their publication in this superbly illustrated book. Richard Parkinson includes all the known background history to the paintings, from Luxor to London, along with detailed ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99

Vernacular Mudbrick Architecture in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, and the Design of the Dakhleh Oasis Training and Conservation Centre
by Wolf Schijns, Olaf Kaper and Joris Kila
More than one third of the world's population lives in houses made of unfired earth bricks or stamped earth, materials also known as mud brick, adobe, terre crue, pisé, or rammed earth. Houses in the middle east have been made out this material for at least 10,000 years, but in many places this form of architecture is slowly being superceded by more recent building techniques using reinforced concrete and concrete ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos
by Josef Wegner
The ruins of the mortuary complex named Enduring-are-the Places of Khakaure-true-of-voice- in-Abydos are located at South Abydos. Erected for pharaoh Khakaure-Senwosret III (ca. 1878-1841 BC) of Dynasty 12, the Abydos complex includes a subterranean royal tomb built beneath a peak anciently called Anubis-Mountain, and a mortuary temple named Nefer-Ka (Beautiful-is-the-Ka) established for the afterlife cult of Senwosret III. ...
Hardback. Price GB £110.00

Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of a Conference, Prague 2004
edited by Miroslav Bárta
During 2004 a conference dedicated to the history, art, archaeology and language of Old Kingdom Egypt (2700 - 2200 BC) was organised by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague. The publication of the conference makes available a representative overview of the latest research and trends presented by more than thirty Egyptologists, most of them leading experts in their respective fields of specialisation. 300p, b/w illus, pls (Czech ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Ancient Egypt: Treasures from the Collection of the Oriental Institute
by Emily Teeter
This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published. The artefacts include statues, stelae, tools, games, clothing, coffins, figured ostraca, and ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00

The Gateway of Ramesses IX in the Temple of Amun at Karnak
by Amin A M A Amer
Part of the greatest temple in Egypt, this forms the publication of a little-known major work of one of the last kings of the Egyptian empire. After a brief introduction, the scenes are described, the inscriptions translated and the role of the gateway and its decoration discussed. The book concludes with drawings of the hieroglyphic texts and plates of the entire gateway, both photograpic and line. With text and illustrations of the inscriptions ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £28.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume II
by Geoffrey Killen
Continues the author's survey of Egyptian furniture making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstools, tracing their evolution from earliest times. The book is extensively illustrated with drawings and photographs and includes a corpus of boxes and footstools in museum collections. 91p with 86 figs & 72 plates. (Aris & Phillips 1994)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £7.95