Faras V, The Pharaonic Inscriptions from Faras

Warszawa: PWN-Editions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 29x21 cm. ISBN: 83-01-01299-4 Description: hardback, dustjacket, cloth, 372 pp. (21x29cm), figs. in text, 40 plates Condition: very good Weight: 1390g. PREFACE LIST OF PLATES ABBREVIATIONS Part I. THE HISTORICAL PROBLEMS Chapter 1 THE DISCOVERY OF PHARAONIC FARAS Chapter 2 THE HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND EPIGRAPHICAL SOURCES FROM FARAS Chapter 3 THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF FARAS AND THE KNOWN SITES WITH PHARAONIC MATERIAL Chapter 4 PROBLEM OF THE ANCIENT TOPONYMES CONNECTED WITH FARAS (ftc-k3v-Rc-mry-Mntw 18; Intt-t3wy or &sf-Md3w 19; IbSk 21; 3bw-rsyt 25; Shtp-ntrw 28) Chapter 5 THE ORIGIN OF THE FRAGMENTS FOUND INSIDE THE MEROITIC ENCLOSURE AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR STUDIES ON THE LOWER NUBIAN TEMPLES OUTSIDE FARAS A. The Tuthmoside fragments a. The question of the Buhen origin (The direct and indirect connections 31; The accordances in measurements 33; Coincidences in the characteristics of the Buhen temple and the Faras fragments and in their inscriptions and decorations 35) b. The importance of the Buhen fragments found at Faras 1. The location of the fragments in the Southern Temple at Buhen (The architrave fragments 37; The door fragments 48; The wall fragments 50) 2. The architecture of the temple and the history of its construction 3. The cult_ in the Southern Temple at Buhen B. The post-Tuthmoside fragments Chapter 6 THE HISTORY OF PHARAONIC FARAS Part II. THE CATALOGUE GENERAL REMARKS A. THE HATHOR ROCK a. The temple (1-11. Stelae, etc., scarabs and scaraboids excluded 77; 12-55 (1-63). Scarabs and scaraboids 92) Appendix I. The list of the uninscribed objects from the Hathor Rock, Addendum b. The chapel of Setau B. THE WALLED TOWN OF TUTANKHAMUN a. The temple b. The chapel of Huy and Ta-em-wadjsy and the minor objects Addendum Appendix II. Uninscribed sculptures found re-used in the Meroitic tombs C. THE MEROITIC ENCLOSURE a. The Tuthmoside fragments 82-146. The architraves inscribed with the larger incised signs 82-123. The texts reading from the left (82-84. The initial scenes 141; 85-91. The titulary of Hatshepsut, changed into this of Tu-thmosis n 142; 92-102. The fragments of the dedicatory formulae 146; 103-108. The fragments of the titulary of Tuthmosis in 152; 109-115. The other texts 156; 116-123. The ending formulae 160) 124-145. The texts read from the right (124-129. The fragments of Hatshepsut's titulary 163; 130-134. The fragments of the dedicatory formulae!69; 135-136. The fragments of the titulary of Tuthmosis ni 171; 137-143. The other texts 172; 144-145. The fragments of the ending formulae 176) 146 (1-7). The seven fragments with small portions of signs or of the bordering bands 147-153. The architraves inscribed with the smaller incised signs 147-151. The texts read from the left 152. The connection of the eight fragments with the text read from the right 153. The fragment bearing the band border 154-176. The architraves inscribed in low-relief 154-164. The texts read from the left 165-176. The texts read from the right 177-199. The door fragments 200-205. Six architrave or lintel fragments 206-288. The wall fragments 206-214. The figures of divinities 215-222. The royal figures 223-226. The unidentified figures 227-231. The bird-shaped tutelary divinities 232-261. The superscriptions of wall scenes (232-253. The inscriptions over the divinities 224; 254-261. The inscriptions over royal figures 242) 262-269. The untypical texts 270-280. An unidentified wall decoration 281-282. Fragments of the side block border of a wall decoration 283-288(1-5). The wall friezes (283. The cobras frieze 256;- 284-287(1-22). The Adter-friezes in low-relief 257; 288 (1-5). Five fragments of the Aefcer-frieze in sunk-relief 263) 289(1-41). The fragments of the Egyptian cornice [...]