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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 March 2014
    05 September 2013
    ISBN:
    9781107325302
    9781108065801
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107325302
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.19kg, 144 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology, Egyptology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology, Egyptology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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    Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. He published these carefully illustrated lectures in 1895. Exploring the ancient Egyptians' passion for decoration, he demonstrates his view that the elaborate use of hieroglyphs and design 'made the Egyptian the father of the world's ornament'. Petrie describes and illustrates the four main areas of decoration: the geometrical use of lines, spirals and curves; the representation of natural images such as feathers and flowers; the existence of structural patterns resulting from ancient techniques of building or manufacture; and the use of symbolic emblems such as the vulture, scarab and lion. Much modern-day design, Petrie argues, is influenced by ancient Egyptian aesthetics. Many of his other publications - for both Egyptologists and non-specialists - are also reissued in this series.

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