The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art. Probleme der Ägyptologie, 18. The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 BC - 300 AD, 2002, xx, 590 p., 75 ill., rel. -

The development of Kushite concepts of order in the state and the cosmos forms the focus of L. Török´s latest volume. Taking a wide variety of textual and iconographical evidence as his points of departure, the author sheds light on the formation of, and interaction between basic concepts such as inhabited space, sacred space, sacred landscape, historical memory and political legitimacy. The author traces this development by discussing the royal and temple texts, urban architecture, the structure of temple iconography, and the relationship between the society and the temples as places of popular worship, archives of historical memory, and centres of cultural identity.This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the subject. Readership : All those interested in Nubian and Meroitic Studies; Egyptologists, art historians, ancient historians, as well as archaeologists, Africanists and ethnographers.