Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead.

Einband leicht besto�n, sonst innen sehr gut und sauber / Binding slightly bumped, otherwise inside very good and clean - CONTENTS -- List of Color Plates -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: Setting the Scene -- The Earliest Alexandrian Monumental Tombs and Their Antecedents -- The Eastern Cemetery -- The Early Alexandrian Cemetery -- The Earliest Monumental Tombs -- Illusionism in Early Alexandrian Tombs -- Theater of the Dead: Theatricality in Alexandrian Tombs -- The Tomb at Sidi Gabr -- The Tomb from the Antoniadis Gardens -- The Tombs at Moustapha Pasha -- Moustapha Pasha Tomb 2, - Moustapha Pasha Tomb 4, - Moustapha Pasha Tomb 1, - Moustapha Pasha Tomb 3, - Theatricality and the Tombs at Moustapha Pasha -- The Tombs of Pharos Island: Cultural Interplay and Ethnic Identity -- The Necropolis at Ras el Tin -- Ras el Tin Tomb 1, - Ras el Tin Tomb 3, - Ras el Tin Tomb 8, - The Anfushy Necropolis -- Anfushy Tomb I, - Anfushy Tomb II, - Anfushy Tomb V, - Ethnicity on Pharos Island -- The Ghirghis Tomb, - Fort Saleh Tomb I, - The Egyptian Broken Lintel, -- Ethnicity in Alexandrian Tombs of the Ptolemaic Period -- vii -- The Emergence of the Individual: the Saqiya Tomb and the Necropolis at Wardian -- Tombs Excavated by Adriani at Minet el-Bassal ( Wardian ) in 1950/51 Section A, Tomb 1, - Section A, Tomb 3, - Section B, - Section C, - Riad's 1960 Excavations at Wardian Tomb I, - Tombs II and IV, - Tomb III: the Saqiya Tomb, - The Saqiya Tomb, Hellenism, and Egypt - The Uses of Egypt in Roman Alexandria - Egyptianizing Mortuary Scenes in Roman-Period Tombs Habachi Tomb A, - Ramleh Tomb, - Kom el-Shoqafa: -- The Egyptianizing Nebengrab ( "Hall of Caracalla" ) , Room E, Tomb h, - Aspects of the "Double Style" in Roman-Period Alexandrian Tombs The Sieglin Tomb, - The Great Catacomb at Kom el-Shoqafa, - Hall of Caracalla ( Nebengrab ) Persephone Tombs, - The Tigrane Tomb, - The Stagni Tomb, - Culture and Gender in Alexandrian Funerary Imagery -- The Legacy of Alexandrian Tombs -- Diffusion of the Alexandrian Tomb Type in Egypt Plinthine, -- Marina el-Alamein, -- Marsa Matruh ( Paraetonium), -- Diffusion of the Alexandrian Tomb Type Outside Egypt Libya, -- Cyprus, -- Syria and Coele Syria, -- -- Diffusion of the Alexandrian Tomb Type in the Christian World Christian Tombs in Alexandria, -- Christian Tombs Outside Egypt, -- The Contributions of Alexandrian Tombs -- Appendix A: Alexandrian Tombs Mentioned in the Text -- Appendix B: Partially Fluted Columns -- List of Works Cited, Abbreviations, and Short Forms -- Endnotes -- Index -- Color plates. -- SPANNING the life of the ancient city almost from its inception in 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. They attest both to the diversity and the cohesion of the community, its population's wealth and love of luxury, its sense of theatricality and pomp, and its cosmopolitan attitude. Neither Greek, nor Macedonian nor Egyptian, the monumental tombs from their inception demonstrate a specifically Alexandrian response to the ceremony of death that draws upon all three cultures but answers to none. Over the more than 500 years covered in this volume, Alexandria's monumental tombs confirm the changing ethos of the city's populace, as the tombs provide the stage on which both the city's continuity and its shifting concerns are played out. They afford a visual testament to the city's art and to its social history. ISBN 9780521806596