The wabet : tradition and innovation in temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman period
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The wabet : tradition and innovation in temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman period
Czech Institute of Egyptology Faculty of Arts, Charles University of Prague, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The volume provides an in-depth study of an architectural ensemble that consists of an open court and elevated chapel, better known as the wabet , and forms an essential part of the layout of a dozen temples in Egypt of the Thirtieth Dynasty and the Ptolemaic and Roman era (e.g Philae, Edfu, Dendara, Shanhur, and Deir Shalwit). The volume focuses on the ensemble's location, orientation, and layout, the designations in use to refer to the complex, and the decorative scheme applied to its walls in order to gain a better insight into the activities performed in the complex and its role within the temple. The volume also takes a closer look at various plausible precursors of the complex in temples of the New Kingdom and the Late Period and examines the ensemble's relation to the wabet as a 'place of embalming'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Individual complexes of wabet and court
- The complex in time and space
- Designations of the complex
- The decorative scheme of the individual complexes: 1. The open court in the temple of Isis at Philae, 2. The complex of wabet and court in Edfu, 3. The complex of wabet and court at Dendara, 4. The aeseat of the first feastAe of Shanhr, 5. The aeseat of the first feastAe at el QalAea
- The standard decorative scheme of the complex of wabet and court: 1. The descriptive inscriptions, 2. The relief decoration, 3. The main sources of inspiration for the decorative scheme
- Architectural precursors of the complex of wabet and court
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Indices.
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