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Description for Nubian Gold
Hardcover. The sumptuousness and grandeur of Nubian gold jewelry analyzed and illustrated for the first time Num Pages: 224 pages, 175 illustrations, including colour, black and white and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBS; AFKG; HDDG; HRKP1; WCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 250. .
The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name means 'gold,' was famous in ancient times for its supplies of precious metal, exotic material, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces of the jeweler's art-marvels of design and construction rivaling, and often surpassing, adornments made in Egypt and the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world. Although these unique treasures are among the most stunning to have survived from antiquity, they remain little known. Richly illustrated with beautiful photographs of these exquisite items, many of them never before published, Nubian Gold also places the jewelry within the ... Read more
The fabled land of Nubia, whose very name means 'gold,' was famous in ancient times for its supplies of precious metal, exotic material, and intricate craftsmanship. Many of the adornments made in Nubia are masterpieces of the jeweler's art-marvels of design and construction rivaling, and often surpassing, adornments made in Egypt and the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world. Although these unique treasures are among the most stunning to have survived from antiquity, they remain little known. Richly illustrated with beautiful photographs of these exquisite items, many of them never before published, Nubian Gold also places the jewelry within the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774167829
SKU
V9789774167829
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About Peter Lacovara
Peter Lacovara is senior curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. He is co-editor of Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (AUC Press, 2012).Yvonne J. Markowitz is the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry in the David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and ... Read more
Reviews for Nubian Gold
This beautifully-illustrated volume documents the wide variety of fine items of personal adornment produced in Nubia ... This comprehensive, full-colour volume will prove valuable for those new to the subject, particularly students, due to the inclusion of relevant contextual material including maps and a chronological table that sets the timelines of Lower and Upper Nubia against that of ancient Egypt. ... Read more