The Arts of making in ancient Egypt. Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC. Océanie Bilingue français-anglais

Bilingue français-anglais

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Written under the learned and sensitive pen of Pierre Laurens

The Douch site had never been excavated when Serge Sauneron

The Arts of making in ancient Egypt. Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC. Océanie Bilingue français-anglaisThis book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the imaginative figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from workers to artisans and, most recently, to artists. In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past