High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
Celebration in the landscape: a hunting party under Amenemhat II
High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt - John Baines
John Baines [+]
University of Oxford
John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. His principal publications are on Egyptian art, literature, and religion. He has also studied the role of writing in Egyptian society and high-cultural legitimations and concerns of elites. His publications include Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (2007) and The Disappearance of Writing Systems (co-edited with John Bennet and Stephen Houston, Equinox, 2008).
Description
This chapter is organized around an instance of a royal hunt that is narrated in an official inscription. Hunting is an ideologically prominent activity and institution in many or most societies, ancient or modern.