ISBN：9781606065518

书名：Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World

作者：Jeffrey Spier, et al.

出版：Getty Publications，2018

装帧：精装，360页，328幅彩插+19幅黑白图+1张图表

语种：英文

开本：24×29.5cm

语种：英文

内容提要：自公元前2000年起，埃及便是地中海东部地区重要的文化交流枢纽，不但流通器物，更交流新的艺术风格与技术。埃及、希腊与罗马的工匠相互学习，创造出了超越单一艺术传统的融合艺术风格。虽然这些文化交流促成了无数优秀的艺术作品，但埃及与西方古典世界在近2500年来交流状况的变迁，却不曾在美国的主要展览或出版物中得以探索。《尼罗河之外》一书所关注的，正是埃及历史的这一面向。

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, however, that Beyond the Nile uncovers.

Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks—during the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt—and later, when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra.

Beyond the Nile, a milestone publication issued on the occasion of a major international exhibition, will become an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewelry, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and interdisciplinary approach to the rich world of artistic cross-pollination during antiquity.