عنوان

Between heaven and earth :

1885923929

9781885923929

Between heaven and earth :

[Book]

birds in ancient Egypt /

edited by Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, with new photography by Anna R. Ressman.

Chicago :

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,

2012.

232 pages :

color illustrations, maps ;

28 cm

Oriental Institute Museum publications ;

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"About the contributors"--Page 11-13.

"List of birds"--Page 217.

"This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, October 15, 2012-July 28, 2013"--Page [4].

Copy 2 is an October 19, 2012 printout from the Oriental Institute pdf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-232).

Foreword / Gil Stein -- Preface / Jack Green -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer -- Time line of Egyptian history -- Map of principal areas and sites mentioned in the text -- I. The revered and the hunted : the role of birds in ancient Egyptian society. 1. From kitchen to temple : the practical role of birds in ancient Egypt / Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer ; 2. The role of birds within the religious landscape of ancient Egypt / Foy Scalf ; 3. An eternal aviary : bird mummies from ancient Egypt / Salima Ikram ; 4. Sheltering wings : birds as symbols of protection in ancient Egypt / Randy Shonkwiler ; 5. Pharaoh was a good egg, but whose egg was he? / Arielle P. Kozloff ; 6. Birds in the ancient Egyptian and Coptic alphabets / François Gaudard ; 7. Birds and bird imagery in the Book of Thoth / Richard Jasnow ; 8. Birds in late antique Egypt / Susan H. Auth -- II. Ancient Egyptian birds and modern science. 9. Bird identification from art, artifacts, and hieroglyphs : an ornithologist's viewpoint / John Wyatt ; 10. Bird behavior in ancient Egyptian art / Linda Evans ; 11. Studying avian mummies at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology : past, present, and future work / Lidija M. McKnight ; 12. Medical CT scanning of ancient bird mummies / Bin Jiang, MD, and Michael Vannier, MD ; 13. Challenges in CT scanning of avian mummies / Charles A. Pelizzari, Chad R. Haney, Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, J.P. Brown, and Christian Wietholt ; 14. Terahertz pulse imaging of an Egyptian bird mummy / J. Bianca Jackson, Gérard Mourou, Julien Labaune, and Michel Menu -- III. Epilogue. 15. The avifauna of the Egyptian Nile Valley : changing times / Sherif Baha el Din -- IV. Catalog. Birds in creation myths ; Pharaoh the living Horus and his avian subjects ; Birds as protection in life ; Fowling in the marshes and aviculture. Nina de Garis Davies's facsimiles from the painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun ; Bird motifs in ancient Egyptian arts and crafts ; Birds in the writing system ; Birds in the religious life of ancient Egyptians. Falcon cults. Ibis Cults ; Birds in death and the afterlife -- Appendix: Bird anatomy -- Concordance of museum registration numbers -- Checklist of the exhibit -- List of birds -- Bibliography.

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Birds in ancient Egypt

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University of Chicago.

University of Chicago.

Animal remains (Archaeology)-- Egypt.

Birds in art.

Natural history-- Egypt, Pictorial works.

Animal remains (Archaeology)

Birds in art.

Natural history.

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Egypt.

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Bailleul-LeSuer, Rozenn.

Ressman, Anna R.

University of Chicago., Oriental Institute., Museum.

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