An Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs
New York, N.Y. Thames & Hudson, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth with white lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket, blue-green spine with white lettering. Illustrated endpages/flyleaves, 224 pp. 280 color illustrations. VG/VG (scuffing to cloth; light sunning to edges. spine top bumped; corners bumped. dustjacket has edge-wear; scuffs & scratches; tear to upper spine edge; rubbing to corners). Item #147330
ISBN: 9780500510599
"Of all the world's early civilizations, it was that of ancient Egypt that fostered the closest relationship with the animal world. All aspects of life, both secular and sacred, gave prominent place to man's involvement with living creatures of every kind. ... [This book shows] the incomparable richness of the pharaonic fauna in all forms of artistic expression -- painting, sculpture, relief carving, architectural ornamentation and hieroglyphs -- ranging from astonishing realism in the depiction of birds and beasts, both wild and domesticated, with which the people of the Nile Valley came into daily contact, to hieratic stylization in portraying the pantheon of animal-headed gods and the sacred and fabulous creatures that inhabited the ancient Egyptians' devotional, funerary and magic world." (dj).
OCLC: 47637834
Price: $38.00