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050	0	0	_aN7660 .G4313 2001
100	0		_aGermond, Philippe
245		3	_aAn Egyptian bestiary _b: animals in life and religion in the land of the pharaohs
336			_a text _b txt _2 rdacontent
337			_a unmediated _b n _2 rdamedia
338			_a volume _b nc _2 rdacarrier
650			_aEgypt _2FAST
650			_aAnimals in art _2FAST
650			_aArt, Egyptian _2FAST
650			_aArt, Ancient _2FAST
650			_aDecoration and ornament, Architectural _2FAST
650			_aArt, Egyptian--Themes, motives _2FAST
650			_aDecoration and ornament--Animal forms _2FAST
300			_a224 p.; col. illus.; bibliog.; index.
505	0		_aThe secular world:. Animals in association with man. Animals as a human resource. Animals as human companions. Animals in competition with man. Animals in writing. The sacred world:. Animals as representatives and repositories of the gods. The pantheon. Sacred animals. The funerary, magic and mythical world. Animals and humour. Appendixes
520	3		_a'Of all the world's early civilizations, it was that of ancient Egypt that fostered the closest relationship with the animal world. All aspects of life, both secular and sacred, gave prominent place to man's involvment with living creatures of every kind. Peasant and craftsman, ruler and priest treated animals not as mere utilitarian objects, but as symbols of creation equal in the hierarchy of life to man himself and closely tied both to everyyday existence and to the realm of the gods. The magnificent photographs in this volume show the incomparable richness of he pharonic fauna in all forms of artistsic expression- painting, sculpture, relief carving, architectural ornamentation and hieroglyphs- ranging from astonishing realism in the depcition of birds and beasts, both wild and domesticated, with which the people of the Nile Valley came into daily contact, to hieratic stylization in portraying the pantheon of animal-headed gods and the sacred and fabulous creatures that inhabited the ancient Egyptians' devotional, funerary and magic world. The scholarly descriptions and informative captions that accompany this amazing bestiary place each animal depicted in its proper context in relation to man, to the environment and to the gods.'
563			_aHardcover
700			_aLivet, Jacques
942			_cBOOKS _kOver/Rp _mGer
999			_c50882 _d50882
264			_aNew York, NY _bThames & Hudson _c2001