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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Painted for eternity decoration of Middle Kingdom coffins from Beni Hassan
    sub title: an art historical case study : the hhistory and excavations of catalogue
  name:
    name part: Hudáková, Lubica
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Siffert, Uta
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 2 volumes (xiv, 800, 162 pages) : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm.
  abstract: The monograph offers the first comprehensive art historical analysis of the painted decoration of Middle Kingdom wooden box coffins from Beni Hassan. No fewer than 900 tombs were excavated in the Lower Necropolis in the early 1900s by John Garstang (University of Liverpool), and they still contained extensive burial equipment, including wooden box-shaped coffins. Careful study of published and archival material in the course of the project Painted for Eternity (University of Vienna) has revealed that more than 260 coffins (over 220 of them with decoration) must have been found. At least 81 coffins (or fragments thereof) have been located in museums worldwide and a further 32 decorated coffins were identified on the excavation photographs. For the first time, these coffins are presented in a catalogue, thoroughly examined as for their layout and the iconography of the decorative elements, set into context and published along with the excavation photographs, drawings and high-quality images in color. The study reveals the existence of a well-established local tradition and important phenomena such as the use of templates, prefabrication and reuse. An overall analysis of the Beni Hassan coffin decoration is in preparation and will be included in the second volume of the study.
  note: Lubica Hudáková, Uta Siffert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    topic: Tombs
    topic: Decoration
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
    geographic: Egypt
    geographic: Beni Hasan
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: History
    temporal: Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C
  classification: 726/.80932
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Middle Kingdom studies ; 14
  identifier: 1906137943
  identifier: 9781906137946
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250403
    record change date: 20260707180544.9
    record identifier: in00005785974