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| ANCIENT EGYPT & NUBIA [Helen Whitehouse] The treasures from Ancient Egypt to be found inside the Ashmolean Museum are second only, outside Egypt, to those in the British Museum. From vases to weapons, and ‘serpent game’ boards to decorated ostrich eggs, this book showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum’s Egyptian collection in beautiful full-colour images with informative captions. The introduction looks at the formation of the Museum’s collection within the context of Egyptology as an emerging discipline full of colourful characters. The Egyptians are one of the most fascinating among the peoples of the ancient world and the Ashmolean’s collection depicts their distinctive culture, its history, religion and art as well as everyday routines and traditions. { 96pp, 194x267mm, November 2008; PB, £14.95, 1854442023:9781854442024 / HB, £19.95, 1854442015:9781854442017 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CARE & CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS, VOLUME 8 : Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 16th-17th October 2003 [Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (eds)] Much work is required to ensure the well-being of the manuscripts in the care of our libraries, archives and other collections and the regular seminars in Copenhagen provide a good opportunity for conservators, archivists, librarians and those who work with manuscripts to meet and discuss their problems. The eighth seminar deals among other things with wooden bindings, the manufacture of parchment, the conservation of embroidered bindings, the study of paint layers, the restoration of heat-damage parchment, binding decoration and hand tools for Ottoman period manuscripts, biomonitering of rare books and documents, German stamped bindings, new recipes for the conservation of leather and parchment, as well as codicology and palæography. The book is well illustrated and contains references and a list of manuscripts. { 300pp, 165x235mm, April 2005; PB, £25.00, 8763502577:9788763502573 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EARLY HIMALAYAN ART [Amy Heller] This book presents the Ashmolean Museum’s collection of some sixty important early sculptures and other objects from Tibet and Nepal dating from c500-1400 AD. They include a number of secular objects as well as images of deities in the Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. In order to trace their aesthetic and historical development, and their materials and techniques of manufacture Dr Amy Heller, an eminent authority on Himalayan art, examines the geography of trade within the Himalayan and neighbouring regions, the antecedents of these objects in India and the surrounding regions, and developments in the arts from the seventh to the fourteenth century in her introductory essay. The objects themselves are reproduced in colour throughout, with detailed descriptions to accompany them. { 175pp, 195x265mm, January 2008; PB, £14.95, 1854442090:9781854442093 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE : The Collection of Classical & Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark [Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen & John Lund (eds)] This publication celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities in the National Museum of Denmark. The Collection traces its roots back to the Royal Kunstkammer founded by King Frederik III around 1650 and to the private archaeological collection of King Christian VIII. On his death the two collections were joined and in 1853 a new one emerged, now named Cabinet of Antiquities, and open to the public -- a collection which over the ensuing 150 years has been constantly enlarged and enriched. In eight articles, various aspects of the history of the collection are tackled -- the authors taking their cues from highlights and humble objects alike: two marble heads from Athens, a mummy from Egypt, and a seemingly insignificant Syrian amulet which, nonetheless, can tell an intriguing tale from the past. We meet a largely forgotten 19th century Danish consul in Tunisia with an eye for antiquities, and accompany Danish archaeologists on expeditions to Hama in Syria and Luristan in Iran. New research in Corinthian pottery is presented and the reader is introduced to the principles employed in establishing the Greek and Roman galleries that were opened in 1994 together with plans for a new Cypriot gallery opened in 2002. The Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities encompasses not only the story of ancient cultures but is, in its own right, part of the history of Denmark as it unfolds the story of the many relations between Denmark and the Mediterranean countries over the centuries. { 200pp, 220x190mm, October 2008; PB, £18.95, 8789438094:9788789438092 , Aarhus University Press } |
| SYLLOGE OF ISLAMIC COINS, VOLUME 6 : The Egyptian Dynasties [Norman D Nicol] This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th to 16 centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. It covers the following dynasties: Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Zengids and Mamluks. The collection included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden coin Room and the Shamma Collection. { 224pp, 215x280mm, August 2007; HB, £60.00, 1854442104:9781854442109 , Ashmolean Museum } |