Synopses & Reviews
It was the great work
Description de l'Egypt, published in Paris in 1809-1928, that first drew Western attention to Egyptian art and architecture. Using this work as his primary source, Dieter Arnold has reconstructed and redrawn all of the lost buildings of the Late Period--some in computer assisted images--and redrawn all other available plans. These, along with superb photographs of extant temples dating to Ptolemaic and Roman times, are included in this book on the formal and stylistic development of Egyptian temple architecture.
Set against the background of the fascinating struggle of Egyptian culture with Assyrian, Greek, Persian, and Roman instrusion, the study places special emphasis on the survival of Egyptian building elements in Roman and Medieval European architecture. The book includes descriptions of building volume, stylistic evaluations, and foreign connections of the monuments as well as a detailed account of all known building activities from the end of the New Kingdom (c 716 BC) to the end of the Roman period.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-361) and index.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: The Development of Architecture of the Late Period
1. The Last Tamples of the New Kingdom?
2. The Third Intermediate Period
3. The Kushite Period
4. The Saite Period
5. The 28th to 30th Dynasty
6. The Second Persian Domination and the Macedonian Dynasty
7. The Ptolemaic Period
8. The Roman Period
Part II: Late Period Sacred Building Forms
9. Wabet
10. Pronaos
11. Entrance Porches and Kiosks
12. Birth Houses
13. Cult Terraces
14. Columns
15. Screen Walls
16. Broken Door Lintels
Part III: Concluding Remarks on Characteristics of Late Egyptian Temple Architecture
17. Stylistic Developments and the Formation of Types
18. Archaistic Tendencies
19. Divinities Distinguished by New Temples
20. Patrons and Builders
21. Egyptian Late Period Architecture and Western Architecture
Glossary
Abbreviations
List of Late Period Temples