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CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA
 Alice Stevenson INTRODUCTION O n 2 June 1923 the London Illustrated Newspublished a ...

opportunistic borrowings that include raw materials such as lapis lazuli, a handful of cylinder seals, artistic inspiration from ...

from the southern part of the country, Upper Egypt. These contexts attest to increasing inequalities in society as the millenniu ...

spheres of the Nile’s inhabitants who incorporated outside influences within their own technologies. However, despite the horizo ...

As it stands, however, this parabolic pattern of lapis lazuli occurrence over time does coincide with the ebb and flow of social ...

the Wadi Hammamat, as they are also found some 130 km south of the First Cataract. As for the Gebel el-Arak handle, Moorey has d ...

Regardless of its route, at lapis’ final point of consumption in the funerals of Predynastic Egyptians, its actual source was pr ...

then (Hartung 1998 ; Hill 2004 ). These sealings were all made in local Nile mud and incorporated distinctively Egyptian imagery ...

The similarity of many of these images to Susan as opposed to Sumerian styles has been noted (e.g. Boehmer 1974 a: 514 ; Moorey ...

thus easily accommodated within the developing elite’s concern with ‘the containment of unrule’ and the domination of order over ...

BUILT ENVIRONMENT In contrast to the portable ceremonial artefacts that were the restricted preserve of a small inner circle of ...

Others (e.g. Hendrickx 2001 ) have remained sceptical, rightly pointing out that the development of Egyptian architectural forms ...

If not the technology, but the appearance of niched architecture can be attributed to outside inspiration, it might be questione ...

origin, it is clear that any such influences were subject to local redefinition, resulting in a distinctly Egyptian material cul ...

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