Painting Amara West

The Technology and Experience of Colour in New Kingdom Nubia

K. Fulcher (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

126 Seiten

2022
Peeters Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-429-4526-5 (ISBN)

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The first in a series of volumes generated by the British Museum’s Amara West Research Project, this explores the use of pigments and the experience of colour in the town founded around 1300BC as a centre of the pharaonic administration of Upper Nubia (Kush). Combining scientific analyses, archaeological fieldwork, and modern ethnographic perspectives, the research provides nuanced perspectives on lived experience at Amara West. This study outlines the evidence for paint products at the site from pigments, palettes, grindstones, painted walls, and coffin fragments, and uses several scientific techniques to identify the materials used. The evidence is used alongside interviews with current residents of the area around Amara West, and experiments with grinding and painting, to discuss the importance of the process of collecting and preparing the paint in ancient times, and its place in the interconnected taskspaces in the ancient town.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan ; 13
Verlagsort	Leuven
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-429-4526-5 / 9042945265
ISBN-13	978-90-429-4526-5 / 9789042945265
Zustand	Neuware