The Naos of the Decades: Underwater Archaeology in the Canopic region in Egypt (OCMA Monograph)

by A. S. Von Bomhard

Hardcover, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

932.02

Collection

Publication

Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (2008), 289 pages

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.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

289 p.; 11.75 inches

ISBN

1905905041 / 9781905905041

Local notes

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