The Arts of making in ancient Egypt. Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC. Océanie Excerpts from the Asian Journal

Excerpts from the Asian Journal (January - February 1914)

The rich collection of the Louvre Museum remarkably illustrates this book with pieces produced in the Meso-Byzantine and Late Byzantine periods

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to suggest a new engraving method completely different from those practiced until then

The Arts of making in ancient Egypt. Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC. Océanie Excerpts from the Asian JournalThis 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