Painting Amara West
The Technology and Experience of Colour in New Kingdom Nubia
By (author) K. Fulcher
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 color in the town founded around 1300BC as a center 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.
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.
- By (author) K. Fulcher
Other Titles in this Series
Miniature Forms as Transformative Thresholds
Faience Figurines in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, Nubia and the Levant (2100-1550 BC)
Volume 7
The Fourth Cataract and Beyond
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference for Nubian Studies
Volume 1
Faience Figurines in their Archaeological and Museological Contexts (Egypt, Nubia, and the Levant, 2100-1550 BC)
The Catalogue Raisonné
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