I. Prologue
1: Visual, written, decorum
II. Written culture
2: Literacy and ancient Egyptian society
3: Four notes on literacy
4: Literacy, social organization and the archaeological record: the
case of early Egypt
5: Writing and society in early Egypt
6: Orality and literacy
7: Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second
millennium evidence
III. Visual culture
8: Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and
Egyptian art
9: Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation
10: Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian
colour terminology and polychromy
11: Stone and other materials: usages and values
12: Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian
art and writing
13: On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art
John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.
Here is a rarity: a collection of essays selected annotated and
updated not by an editor, but by their writer, with all the
resultant advantages... John Baines does more than compile a series
of related papers into a convenient single book.
*Jasmine Day, Journal of Archaeology Science*
This well illustrated volume brings together some of John Baines's
valuable studies...making better available key contributions on
core problems of written and visual culture in ancient Egypt. The
book is organized as a synthesis of excellent treated individual
topics that offers numerous points of departure for further
research.
*Ilona Regulski, Bibliotheca Orientalis*
a work that deserves to be seriously read and re-viewed.
*Robyn A. Gillam, Chronique d'Égypte*
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