Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c.3000 BC–AD 1150

Full details, illustrations and translations of 127 stelae providing evidence of Egyptian culture over 4000 years.

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (Author), S. J. Clackson (Contributions by), S. G. J. Quirke (Contributions by), J. D. Ray (Contributions by), J. Reynolds (Contributions by), J. van der Vliet (Contributions by), G. J. van Gelder (Contributions by), Andrew Norman (Photographs by)

9780521842907, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 March 2005

216 pages, 262 b/w illus.
22.7 x 28.2 x 2.4 cm, 1.02 kg

'This catalogue provides an excellent and important publication of a sizeable collection of stelae, of which many are published here for the first time. The black and while photos and facsimile drawings give very good impressions of the objects.' www.PalArch.nl

The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae (many funerary) deriving from the Nile Valley, now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The stelae are written in various scripts – Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic – and cover a date-range of over 4000 years. Few museums have published their complete holdings of such material, and the carefully described and translated information from these stelae throws a flood of light on the history, religion, funerary customs, art and iconography, daily life and administrative systems of ancient Egypt and Nubia. Each entry has a photograph of the stela as well as a meticulous line-drawing which enables the texts and iconography to be understood and interpreted. Full museological details such as material, precise measurements, provenance (where known), mode of acquisition and dating are provided. The volume will interest specialists as well as a wider public concerned with Egyptology.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Works cited
Chronological table
Catalogue of stelae: 1. Egyptian
2. Carian
3. Greek
4. Coptic
5. Cufic
6. Modern
Bibliography of published stelae collections and commentaries
Indexes: 1. Concordance of Fitzwilliam Museum accession numbers and present Catalogue
2. Concordance of Budge, A Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection, and present Catalogue
3. Royal names
4. Deities, including epithets
5. Titles, administrative departments, etc.
6. Egyptian personal and geographical names
7. Carian names
8. Greek, Coptic and Arabic names
9. Provenances etc.
10. Objects in museums
11. General.

Subject Areas: Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides [WTHM], Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]