Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.

• I. PROLOGUE ; 1. Visual, written, decorum ; II. WRITTEN CULTURE ; 2. Literacy and ancient Egyptian society ; 3. Four notes on literacy ; 4. Literacy, social organization and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt ; 5. Writing and society in early Egypt ; 6. Orality and literacy ; 7. Ancient Egyptian concepts and uses of the past: third to second millennium evidence ; III. VISUAL CULTURE ; 8. Theories and universals of representation: Heinrich Schafer and Egyptian art ; 9. Schafer's mottoes and the understanding of representation ; 10. Colour terminology and colour classification: ancient Egyptian colour terminology and polychromy ; 11. Stone and other materials: usages and values ; 12. Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing ; 13. On the status and purposes of ancient Egyptian art

Here is a rarity: a collection of essays selected annotated and updated not by an editor, but by their writer, with all the resultant advantages... John Baines does more than compile a series of related papers into a convenient single book.