Author: HARTWIG, Melinda
Title: Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE
Description: Turnhout, Brepols, 2004. 28 cm, xi, 275 pp, with 18 illustrations in colour and 7 in b/w. Soft cover. Text in English ¶ Published in the series : Monumenta Aegyptiaca X, Série Imago n° 2. Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE examines the style, iconography, and symbolism of painting in all extant private Theban tomb chapels decorated during the reigns of Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III. The book studies the ways in which pictorial imagery functioned on behalf of the dead in the afterlife, presented their identity to the living, and revealed underlying religious developments with important societal implications.

Keywords: archeologie|religion