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Description: | The Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Antiquities curates a fine collection of more than 120 stelae from the Nile valley in Egypt and Nubia, spanning the period c. 3000 BCÃ-AD 1150.
The stelae are largely funerary in nature and are written in various scripts Ã- Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic. The collection has been published in a definitive catalogue from which careful descriptions, translations, line-drawings and photography illuminate the history, religion, funerary customs, art and iconography, daily life and administrative systems of these ancient civilizations. | Format: | physical | Subjects: | Egyptian language Writing systems Iconography Egyptology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8405 | Format: | physical | Go to resource |
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