H 290 x W 205 mm
200 pages
176 figures, 15 tables (colour throughout)
Published Dec 2020
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789697407
Digital: 9781789697414
Keywords
Bronze Age; Egypt; Nubia; archaeometallurgy; INAA; lead isotopes; C-Group; New Kingdom; Old Kingdom; Giza; Aniba; Abydos
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The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig has the largest university collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Germany. This volume presents an analysis of 86 of these artefacts using a range of archaeometallurgical methods in order to provide a diachronic sample of Bronze Age Egyptian copper alloy metalwork from Dynasty 1 to Dynasty 19.
Foreword ;
1. Introduction ;
2. History of the collection ;
3. Egyptological framework of the study ;
4. Methodology of the analytical study ;
5. Dynasty-1 Abusir ;
6. Dynasty-2 Abydos ;
7. Old Kingdom Giza ;
8. First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom artefacts ;
9. C-Group Aniba ;
10 Kerma culture ;
11. Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom Aniba ;
12. Other New Kingdom provenanced artefacts ;
13. Unprovenanced artefacts ;
14. Archaeometallurgical summary (JK) ;
15. Archaeological and historical summary (MO) ;
16. Concluding remarks ;
17. Bibliography