{"product_id":"egypt-and-the-classical-world-jeffrey-spier-9781606067376","title":"Egypt and the Classical World: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity","description":"\u003cb\u003ePresenting dynamic research, this publication explores two millennia of cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, \u003ci\u003eEgypt and the Classical World\u003c\/i\u003e documents two millennia of cultural and artistic interconnectedness in the ancient Mediterranean. This volume gathers pioneering research from the Getty scholars' symposium that helped shape the major international loan exhibition \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World\u003c\/i\u003e (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Generously illustrated essays consider a range of artistic and other material evidence, including archaeological finds, artworks, papyri, and inscriptions, to shed light on cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Late Period and Ptolemaic dynasty to the Roman Empire. The military's role as a conduit of knowledge and ideas in the Bronze Age Aegean, and an in-depth study of hieroglyphic Egyptian inscriptions found on Roman obelisks offer but two examples of scholarly lacunae addressed by this publication. Specialists across the fields of art history, archaeology, Classics, Egyptology, and philology will benefit from the volume's investigations into syncretic processes that enlivened and informed nearly twenty-five hundred years of dynamic cultural exchange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The free online edition of this open-access publication is available at www.getty.edu\/publications\/egypt-classical-world\/ and includes zoomable, high-resolution photography. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle\/MOBI downloads of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Spier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606067370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606067376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Paul Getty Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Jeffrey Spier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068792533247,"sku":"9781606067376","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4f3f97c-7b1a-466d-bbec-cf757dc84818.jpg?v=1685421025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/egypt-and-the-classical-world-jeffrey-spier-9781606067376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}