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" Between heaven and earth : "
edited by Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, with new photography by Anna R. Ressman.
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857490
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Between heaven and earth : : birds in ancient Egypt /\ edited by Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, with new photography by Anna R. Ressman.
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Chicago :: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,, 2012.
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Oriental Institute Museum publications ;; 35
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232 pages :: color illustrations, maps ;; 28 cm
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1885923929
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: 9781885923929
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Copy 2 is an October 19, 2012 printout from the Oriental Institute pdf.
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"About the contributors"--Page 11-13.
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"List of birds"--Page 217.
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"This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, October 15, 2012-July 28, 2013"--Page [4].
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-232).
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| Contents
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Foreword / Gil Stein -- Preface / Jack Green -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer -- Time line of Egyptian history -- Map of principal areas and sites mentioned in the text -- I. The revered and the hunted : the role of birds in ancient Egyptian society. 1. From kitchen to temple : the practical role of birds in ancient Egypt / Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer ; 2. The role of birds within the religious landscape of ancient Egypt / Foy Scalf ; 3. An eternal aviary : bird mummies from ancient Egypt / Salima Ikram ; 4. Sheltering wings : birds as symbols of protection in ancient Egypt / Randy Shonkwiler ; 5. Pharaoh was a good egg, but whose egg was he? / Arielle P. Kozloff ; 6. Birds in the ancient Egyptian and Coptic alphabets / François Gaudard ; 7. Birds and bird imagery in the Book of Thoth / Richard Jasnow ; 8. Birds in late antique Egypt / Susan H. Auth -- II. Ancient Egyptian birds and modern science. 9. Bird identification from art, artifacts, and hieroglyphs : an ornithologist's viewpoint / John Wyatt ; 10. Bird behavior in ancient Egyptian art / Linda Evans ; 11. Studying avian mummies at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology : past, present, and future work / Lidija M. McKnight ; 12. Medical CT scanning of ancient bird mummies / Bin Jiang, MD, and Michael Vannier, MD ; 13. Challenges in CT scanning of avian mummies / Charles A. Pelizzari, Chad R. Haney, Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, J.P. Brown, and Christian Wietholt ; 14. Terahertz pulse imaging of an Egyptian bird mummy / J. Bianca Jackson, Gérard Mourou, Julien Labaune, and Michel Menu -- III. Epilogue. 15. The avifauna of the Egyptian Nile Valley : changing times / Sherif Baha el Din -- IV. Catalog. Birds in creation myths ; Pharaoh the living Horus and his avian subjects ; Birds as protection in life ; Fowling in the marshes and aviculture. Nina de Garis Davies's facsimiles from the painted tomb-chapel of Nebamun ; Bird motifs in ancient Egyptian arts and crafts ; Birds in the writing system ; Birds in the religious life of ancient Egyptians. Falcon cults. Ibis Cults ; Birds in death and the afterlife -- Appendix: Bird anatomy -- Concordance of museum registration numbers -- Checklist of the exhibit -- List of birds -- Bibliography.
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Horus
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Nut
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Thoth
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Horus
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Thoth
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University of Chicago.
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University of Chicago.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)-- Egypt.
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Birds in art.
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Natural history-- Egypt, Pictorial works.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Birds in art.
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Natural history.
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Vögel
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Egypt.
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| Dewey Classification
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598.0932/1
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QL692.E3B48 2012
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Bailleul-LeSuer, Rozenn.
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Ressman, Anna R.
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University of Chicago., Oriental Institute., Museum.
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Birds in ancient Egypt
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