The Naos of the Decades : from the observation of the sky to mythology and astrology

by Anne-Sophie von Bomhard

Paper Book, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

932.02

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Publication

Oxford : Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, 2008.

Description

This monograph presents the almost completely reconstituted Naos of the Decades with an excellent set of photographic images. The four additional fragments, recovered in East Canopus during the excavations of the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology, are examined with the two original fragments from the Louvre and Greco Roman Museum (Egypt). The largest of the new fragments consists of a cosmogony of over 20 columns with no known parallel, disproving the order of the decades as it was initially assumed and suggesting a far older tradition of Egyptian astrology. Price approx.

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Physical description

xi, 289 p.; 31 cm

ISBN

9781905905041
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