Writing, Violence, and the Military: Images of Literacy in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (1550- 1295 Bce)

by Niv Allon

Writing, Violence, and the Military takes representations of reading and writing in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (ca. 1550-1295 BCE) as its point of departure, asking how patrons of art conceptualized literacy and how in turn they positioned themselves with respect to it. Exploring statuary and tomb art through the prism of self-representation and group formation, it makes three claims. Firstly, that the elite of this period held a variety of notions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198841620
• ISBN13: 9780198841623
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"