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Baines was born on 17 March 1946. He is the oldest son of Edward Russell Baines and his wife Dora Margaret Jean (née O’Brien).
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Fecundity figures, personifications of non-sexual fertily, played a significant role in ancient Egyptian religious art. This detailed and comprehensive investigation of Egyptian iconography during the Old and New Kingdoms aims to classify the types of male and female figures represented, and so understand the intentions behind such personifications, whilst also placing the artwork within its cultural, religious and artistic context. In addition, the study includes a theoretical discussion of the form and function of personifications.
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This book is a complete publication by recognized experts of four important and closely related groups of material from the tomb of Tut'ankhamun. Ali el-Khouli presents the plain vases manufactured in a variety of stones. These were among the finest containers in the king's furnishings and form the best preserved set from their period. Rotislav Holthoer catalogues the pottery, much of which contained wine from a wide range of vintages that accompanied the king to the next world. Colin A. Hope gives a detailed study of the jar sealings, which are technologically significant, as well as containing important economic and administrative information, principally about wine production. Olaf E. Kaper catalogues and discusses the door sealings removed in the clearance of the tomb, as well as the object seals, which are the most extensive series from a single tomb. He successfully elucidates the renowned 'Necropolis Seal' showing a recumbent jackal and a series of bound captives.
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This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass lived experience and exploitation of the natural environment. The opening chapter sets out the conceptual ground for the analyses that follow, arguing that the relatively ephemeral activities under investigation were centrally important to the actors. The first and largest study treats human organization of the landscape and its use to create and transmit elite meanings, especially through pictorial and encyclopaedic forms, and to mobilize emotional values. Next, a treatment of the planning of primarily third millennium settlements on the floodplain argues that Egypt offers a partly rural perspective that provides an alternative to the urban focus of many early civilizations but has parallels in elite culture in much of the world. The third study discusses how a single year's events were orchestrated to culminate in a celebratory hunt in which the king, his court, and high officials participated. The concluding chapter presents an initial synthesis of Egyptian treatments of elite experience, drawing in particular upon additional evidence from literary texts and attitudes to travel.
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A generously illustrated selection of John Baines's influential writings on two core areas of ancient Egyptian civilization: the role of writing, which was very different in antiquity from what is familiar in the modern world, and the importance of visual culture. These questions are explored through a number of case studies. The volume assembles articles that were scattered in publications in a variety of disciplines, making available key contributions on core problems of theory, comparison, and analysis in the study of many civilizations and offering important points of departure for further research. Three wholly new essays are included, and the overall approach is an interdisciplinary one, synthesizing insights from archaeology, anthropology, and art history as well as Egyptology.
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Baines was born on 17 March 1946. He is the oldest son of Edward Russell Baines and his wife Dora Margaret Jean (née O’Brien).
He was educated at Winchester College, an all boys public boarding school in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Bachelor) in 1967, later promoted to Master of Arts (Master of Arts). He gained his Doctor of Philosophy degree (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1976.
He was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and is a fellow of The Queen"s College. He went on to study Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Baines was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2013.
He was one of the youngest tenured professors at the university at the age of 30.
He is also the author of multiple scholarly articles and publications relating to ancient Egyptian civilization. His research interests are in Ancient Egyptian art, religion, literature, and biographies.
Modelling ancient Egyptian society. Comparative and anthropological approaches to ancient civilizations.
(A generously illustrated selection of John Baines's influ...)
(This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and un...)
(This book is a complete publication by recognized experts...)
(Fecundity figures, personifications of non-sexual fertily...)