The Four Gods Figurines As Tomb Guardians

Author : Lok Man Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662681579
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Gods Figurines as Tomb Guardians written by Lok Man Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) and a pair of hybrid beasts (Zuming and Dizhou). These objects were exclusively used by officials until 841 AD and were mainly found in capitals then. They disappeared in the 9th century AD. The book is divided into three sections. Part one focuses on their symbolism through names, images, burial contexts, associated ritual regulations, and the interplay of all of these, revealing their dual significance – apotropaic and political, tied to ritual propriety, nuo exorcism, yin-yang divination, and more. Part two explores their connection to other supernatural tomb figurines in the early and middle Tang periods, challenging previous theories and highlighting regional standardization. Additionally, this part delves into the Four Gods’ regulated production, government oversight, and role in funerary processions. Part three examines their disappearance due to shifting views on the afterlife and diminishing national power. It also explores changes in the usage of related tomb objects after the Tang era, focusing on protective functions and spatial concepts.

Author : Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691494
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greco-Roman Cities at the Crossroads of Cultures: The 20th Anniversary of Polish-Egyptian Conservation Mission Marina el-Alamein written by Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers present research from different regions ranging from ancient Mauritania, through Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, as well as sites in Crimea and Georgia. Topics include: topography, architecture, interiors and décor, religious syncretism, the importance of ancient texts, pottery studies and conservation.

Author : Kathlyn M. Cooney
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1937040410
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyful in Thebes written by Kathlyn M. Cooney and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes, a Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies, which often present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history, well reflect the broad research interests of the honoree. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications through 2015.

Author : Kaikodo (Gallery : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaikodo Journal written by Kaikodo (Gallery : New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jo Nelson
Publisher : Templar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787413276
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historium written by Jo Nelson and published by Templar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, objects of functionality, objects of war, objects of life, and objects of death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years of human history.

Author : Kjeld Kjeldsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Men and Gods written by Kjeld Kjeldsen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jens A. Krasilnikoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100380490X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context written by Jens A. Krasilnikoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, the government of the Greek communities, Greek settlement and trade at Málaga, the Greek settlement of Santa Pola, Greek trade in Southern France and Eastern Spain, the implications of imported Attic pottery in the fifth and fourth centuries BC and the conception of Iberia in the eyes of the Greeks. The Iberian Peninsula invites discussion of key notions of ethnic identity, the use of code-switching, cultural geography and the role of society in generating, developing and exploiting social memory in a changing world. The contributions in this volume provide a variety of responses and interpretations of the Greek presence, reflecting the extent of this debate and offering different approaches in order to better understand the range of evidence from the Iberian Peninsula. The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context develops current research on the Greek presence, presenting diverse opinions and new interpretations that are of interest not only to scholars studying the Iberian Peninsula and Greek settlement but also students of identity, cultural geography and colonisation more widely, as well as the applicability of these concepts to the historical record.

Author : Nikolas Dimakis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915076
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese written by Nikolas Dimakis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese.

Author : Guolong Lai
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805706
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Excavating the Afterlife written by Guolong Lai and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of violent political struggle and warfare, permanently altered the early Chinese conceptions of this world and the afterlife. The book grounds the important changes in religious beliefs and ritual practices firmly in the sociopolitical transition from the Warring States (ca. 453�221 BCE) to the early empires (3rd century�1st century BCE). A methodologically sophisticated synthesis of archaeological, art historical, and textual sources, Excavating the Afterlife will be of interest to art historians, archaeologists, and textual scholars of China, as well as to students of comparative religions. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/excavating-the-afterlife

Author : Tamás Mekis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789693349
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet written by Tamás Mekis and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment—an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun’s disc, and its form is planar (although it is occasionally concave). This volume analyses the written records and iconography of these objects.