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Picta Nilotica Romana presents an in-depth analysis of Roman paintings with a Nilotic theme. The first part of the study introduces the classical texts on Egypt and provides an overview of landscape depiction in Roman art. After an outline of methodology, an iconographic-archaeological catalogue of...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-877392024-03-28T14:03:18Z Picta Nilotica Romana Voltan, Eleonora Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Picta Nilotica Romana presents an in-depth analysis of Roman paintings with a Nilotic theme. The first part of the study introduces the classical texts on Egypt and provides an overview of landscape depiction in Roman art. After an outline of methodology, an iconographic-archaeological catalogue of the 74 paintings is developed, founded on specific scientific criteria, with a classification into three categories according to iconographic composition. The corpus is followed by an analysis of the archaeological contexts in which these paintings are found, an analysis of Nilotic iconographies and a definition of the 'Nilotic landscape'. The volume is also completed by an iconographic apparatus and several maps showing geographical and chronological spread. 2024-02-16T05:30:49Z 2024-02-16T05:30:49Z 2024 book 9781803276380 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87739 ita application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Archaeopress Publishing b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781803276380 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Knowledge Unlatched open access
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