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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tombs --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Tombeaux --- Lisht Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Lisht (Egypte : Site archéologique) --- Egypte --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités
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The exploration of the Middle Kingdom cemeteries at El–Lisht, twenty miles south of Cairo, began in 1882, with the opening of the entrances to the pyramids of Amenenmhat I and Senwosret I. From 1906 to 1934 and again from 1984 to 1991 the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, worked intensively at the Lisht site. In the present volume Dieter Arnold describes and documents the architecture and wall decoration of tombs built for courtiers and officials around the two royal pyramids at Lisht. Ancient tomb robbers and quarrymen had almost totally denuded the Middle Kingdom buildings, but excavation and careful study of remaining foundations, architectural elements, and fragments of relief decoration have enabled the author and his team to reconstruct to a fair degree the form and appearance of these masterpieces of ancient Egyptian architecture. The textual portion ends with an appendix written by James P. Allen, professor of Egyptology at Brown University, that reviews an important biographical inscription from one of the tombs. This amply illustrated volume, which also publishes for the first time one of the most highly artistic painted sarcophagi of the Middle Kingdom, is the twenty–eighth in the series documenting the Museum's fieldwork in Egypt. It provides the architectural background for innumerable sculptures and small objects excavated in the tombs at El–Lisht that are now part of the collections of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- From website
Tombs --- Architecture, Ancient --- Mastabas --- Lisht Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Lisht (Egypte : Site archéologique) --- Lisht (Egypte : Site archéologique) --- Tombeaux --- Architecture antique --- Egypte --- Antiquités
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Relief (Sculpture) --- Amenemhet --- Egypt --- Lisht Site (Egypt) --- Egypte --- Lisht (Egypte : Site archéologique) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Amenemhet I, King of Egypt --- Relief (Sculpture). --- Amenemhāt --- Amenemhat --- Ammenemes, --- Antiquities. --- Sculpture
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Lisht, twenty miles south of Cairo, has been the site of excavations since its discovery in 1906, and since that time scholars at the Metropolitan Museum have published several volumes about this Middle Kingdom site. This new book in the series focuses on the architecture of the pyramid complex of King Amenemhat I, which was built on a foundation using Old Kingdom blocks. The publication brings together new information obtained from numerous expeditions and many years of research and analysis, and includes photographs from the original finding in the early 20th century as well as new, unpublished drawings of wall reliefs and inscriptions. Documenting an area of excavation in Egypt that has suffered recent damage and continues to be threatened, this book provides indispensable insight to students and scholars of Egyptian archaeology and architecture.
Pyramids --- Architecture, Ancient --- Amenemhet --- Tomb --- Lisht Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Tombes --- Pyramides --- Architecture égyptienne --- Licht (Égypte ; site archéologique) --- Égypte --- Licht (Égypte ; site archéologique). --- Pyramide d'Amenemhat I. --- Amenemhat I --- Licht (Égypte) --- Pyramids - Egypt --- Architecture, Ancient - Egypt --- Amenemhet - I, - King of Egypt, - -1962 B.C. - Tomb --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Amenemhet - I, - King of Egypt, - -1962 B.C.
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The temple's history and its decorationReused blocks originating from the Old KingdomReused blocks found in place and originating from the early Twelfth DynastyBlocks from Amenemhat I's Temple .
Pyramids --- Relief (Art) --- Architecture, Ancient --- Amenemhet --- Tomb --- Lisht Site (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Pyramides -- Égypte --- Art, Ancient --- Antiquities. --- 3-D painting --- Layering (Art) --- Relief art --- Relief painting --- Relief panel --- Three-dimensional painting --- Art, Modern --- Pyramids - Egypt --- Relief (Art) - Egypt --- Architecture, Ancient - Egypt --- Amenemhet - I, - King of Egypt, - -1962 B.C. - Tomb --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Amenemhet - I, - King of Egypt, - -1962 B.C.
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