Swaney, Margaret
Designing a Temple for Repit

An Art History of Ptolemaic Athribis. Athribis-Studien II.

Margaret Swaney offers the first art historical analysis of the Ptolemaic-era Repit temple, exploring how the collective decisions of priests, scribes, sculptors, plasterers, painters, and gilders came together to craft a complex mythological reality in stone. She combines a more traditional approach to the study of Ptolemaic temple art, which aims to identify the framework of semantic linkages between symmetrically paired and neighboring scenes known as the “temple grammar” with a technical study of the temple production, considering general trends in art production and visual meaning-making as well as the specific, context-dependent meanings of individual images and scenes and their means of production within each architectural space. Swaney provides in-depth analyses of royal and divine iconography, offering scene types and compositional structures as well as the technical strategies of the artists who materialized the local theology of the Repit temple. XIV,497 Seiten mit 142 Textabb., 29 Tabellen und 23 Farbtafeln, Großformat, gebunden (Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion; Band 42/Harrassowitz Verlag 2024) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear