Dr. Melanie Wasmuth: Blossoms for eternity – floral jewellery in ancient Egypt
Автор: Det teologiske fakultet UiO
Загружено: 2024-11-22
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About the lecture
Ancient jewellery is typically associated with highly specialised goldmiths’ craft and semi-precious stones. Yet, ‘imitations’ of the various minerals in artificially created materials were as prevalent and prestigious. If the surviving images and tomb finds reflect ancient lived realities, the scent of fresh flowers worn over the brow, around the neck, and on the arm has been even more important and omnipresent. Nonetheless, flowers as adornment did not make it into either of the major reference works on ancient Egyptian materials (Lucas 3rd ed. 1962; Nicholson and Shaw eds 2004), and only marginally into the flora section of The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology (2017). We will be taking a look at the scope of organic adornment worn by the highest elite in ancient Egypt and discuss how much of the value of jewellery and especially its materiality is culturally invested.
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