7/9/2023 0 Comments Microcosm artGraves literally adopts the theme of the miniature world, concentrating the ecological memory of the Earth into a box made of recycled materials. The earth assumes a purifying valence in the fragment from Martyrs by Bill Viola (2014) Patricia Claro transforms water into calligraphy in her Cartas de Agua Trilogy (2016) Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor use air as a source of sound, and fire deposits its ashes over the sky in Gianni Lillo’s Meditazioni ( Meditations, 2003).īlack Days (2019) by Kathleen J. The works on display are linked by the theme of the four primordial elements. «Microcosm» represents a symphony of voices, media, traditions and languages that reflect the complexity of a world that is caught between globalisation and a refusal to homogenise. New Kingdom towns in Upper Nubia: Sai, Soleb and Amara West in prosopographical perspectiveThe Museum of Doria Pamphilj Palace in Valmontone is hosting «Microcosm», an exhibition curated by Antonio Trimani and Monica Di Gregorio. The exhibition gathers over 70 works by both well-known and emerging international artists in a narration of the vast horizons of contemporary art. Urbanism in Nubia and the New Kingdom Temple Towns The Fortified Settlement at Tombos and Egyptian Colonial Strategy in New Kingdom Nubia Marlies Wohlschlager and Andrea Stadlmayr Life History of Khnummose and Selected Anthropological Finds from Tomb 26 Pots & People: Ceramics from Sai Island and Elephantineįrom Macro Wares to Micro Fabrics and INAA Compositional Groups: The pottery corpus of the New Kingdom town on Sai Island (Northern Sudan) The Fortifications of the Pharaonic Town on Sai Island: A reinvestigation Image Based Modelling and Kite Aerial Photography on Sai Island The Many Ethnicities in Avaris: Evidence from the northern borderland of EgyptĮgyptians and Nubians in the Early New Kingdom and the Kushite BackgroundĪcrossBorders: Five seasons of work in the Pharaonic town, Sai Island ![]() Kerma and Dokki Gel: Evidences of impressive changes in the urban architecture at the beginning of the New Kingdom in Nubia The Development of Two Early Urban Centres in Upper Egypt During the 3rd Millennium BC: The examples of Edfu and DendaraĪncient Gold Mining Settlements in the Eastern Deserts of Egypt and Nubia Individual Households and Cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia: A short summary of the state-of-the-art It is the result of a conference on the same subject held in 2017 as the closing event of the European Research Council funded project AcrossBorders at Munich. The volume is intended for all specialists at settlements sites in Northeast Africa, for students of Egyptology and Nubian Studies, but it will be of interest to anyone working in the field of settlement archaeology. This new bottom-up approach applied by current fieldwork projects is demonstrated in the book. Settlement archaeology in Egypt and Nubia has recently moved away from a strong textual approach and generalised studies to a more site-specific approach and household studies. ![]() The rich potential of well-preserved but still not completely explored sites in modern Sudan, especially as direct comparison for already excavated sites located in Egypt, is in particular emphasised in the book. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeometric applications, are presented as case studies from sites primarily dating to the New Kingdom (Second Millennium BC). ![]() ![]() This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. As reflected in the title “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia”, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed.
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