TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guimier-Sorbets,Anne-Marie
AU  - Pelle,André
AU  - Seif El-Din,Merwatte
TI  - Resurrection in Alexandria: the painted Greco-Roman tombs of Kom al-Shuqafa 
SN  - 9789774168291
AV  - DT73.A4 G8513 2017
U1  - 932 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  -  ,  ,  
PB  -  ,  
KW  - Osiris
KW  - Persephone
KW  - Resurrection in art
KW  - Alexandria (Egypt)
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-169); A revelation in four acts -- Photographing the invisible -- Architecture and iconography
N2  - In the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria, uniquely decorated tombs from the time when religious boundaries blurred and syncretistic beliefs flourished have long been known. But it was only in 1993 that researchers discovered faint traces of paintings on walls previously thought to be blank, or underneath other painted scenes: the hidden scenes could be partly made out and photographed using ultraviolet light. Then in 2012, new computer technology was used to reveal the lost images and colors even more clearly. Here the team present, examine, and interpret what they found, teasing meaning and intent from the alternating scenes of Greek and Egyptian mythology, as employed by the citizens of a multicultural Alexandria at the beginning of the second century CE, in pursuit of a happy afterlife
ER  -