Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

(Download) "Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity" by Ilaria Incordino # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity

📘 Read Now     📥 Download


eBook details

  • Title: Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity
  • Author : Ilaria Incordino
  • Release Date : January 31, 2017
  • Genre: Ancient,Books,History,Religion & Spirituality,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 12735 KB

Description

In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view. This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect of foreign trade: the importation of aromatic products. Contributors present the results of the latest researches into the origin and meaning of foreign aromatic products imported in Egypt from the south (Nubia, Punt, Arabia, Horn of Africa) from the beginning of the Dynastic period. The quest for aromata has been of crucial importance in Egypt, since it was closely connected with economic, political, ideological, religious, and mythic spheres.
Through archaeological research, epigraphic analysis, and iconographic investigations new evidence is explored supporting the most likely hypothesis about the sources of these raw materials. The study of related documents has revealed possible linguistic links between ancient Egyptian and other ancient African languages, and a strong link between aromata and the divine world through the creation of many Egyptian myths. The references to some specific aromatic products (ti-shepes, snetjer, antyw, hesayt) have been subject to careful lexicographic analysis, with special reference to Old Kingdom occurrences. Iconographic and field investigations documented here seek to better define the Egyptian way of representing the 'foreign' world and the value of its products in the spheres of Egyptian religiosity and rising Pharaonic ideology.


PDF Books Download "Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity" Online ePub Kindle