Die Zeit selbst lag nun tot darnieder

Die Stadt Assiut und ihre Nekropolen nach westlichen Reiseberichten des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts: Konstruktion, Destruktion und Rekonstruktion

by Jochem Kahl, translated by Youssef Mohamed

Book cover: Die Zeit selbst lag nun tot darnieder

Extent: 600 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Asyut Project

Series volume number: 5

Language: Arabic

Hardback (Published)

(December 2013)

ISBN: 9783447068673

6.65 x 8.27 inches

Price: $77.00

Out of stock

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

Asyut in Middle Egypt was one of the most important cities in Pharaonic times. As a political and cultural center, it gave rise to many historic and artistic monuments through the millennia, monuments that illuminate the regional peculiarities of the wider area. Even before the first major archaeological excavations, European and American travelers visited the site during the 17th to 19th centuries and recorded their impressions in travelogues. This volume analyzes around 100 of those accounts, among them previously unpublished texts, and reconstructs on the basis of the sources the state and destruction of Asyuts archaeological monuments from the 17th to 19th centuries. German text.

English summary: Asyut in Middle Egypt was one of the most important cities in Pharaonic times. Even before the first major archaeological excavations, European and American travelers visited the site during the 17th to 19th centuries and recorded their impressions in travelogues. This volume analyzes around 100 of those accounts, among them previously unpublished texts. German description: Assiut in Mittelagypten war eine der bedeutendsten agyptischen Stadte in pharaonischer Zeit. Als Zentralort und Kulturort entstanden in ihr uber Jahrtausende historisch, kulturgeschichtlich und kunstlerisch wertvolle Zeugnisse, die uber die regionalen Besonderheiten der Region Aufschluss geben. Vor den ersten grossen Ausgrabungen auf dem bei Assiut gelegenen Berg, dem Gebel Assiut al-gharbi, der als Nekropole, Steinbruch, Platz fur Kloster und Eremitenklausen, aber auch als Ausflugsziel und Basis fur Militars diente, besuchten europaische und amerikanische Reisende wahrend des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts die Stadt und den Berg und hielten ihre Eindrucke in Reiseberichten fest. Jochem Kahl wertet in seiner Studie ca. 100 dieser Berichte aus, darunter auch bisher unveroffentlichte Texte, und rekonstruiert auf Grundlage der Quellen den Zustand und die Zerstorung archaologischer Denkmaler wahrend des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. Zudem zeichnet Kahl eindrucklich das Bild nach, das sich die Reisenden von Assiut und seinen Bewohnern machten, und stellt zugleich dar, welche Wirkung die Stadt und der Gebel Assiut al-gharbi auf ihre Besucher hatten.

By (author) Jochem Kahl
Translated by Youssef Mohamed

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