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During the second quarter of the 19th century, when extensive excavations were being carried out in the necropolises of Etruria, tombs of the Orientalizing Period were also unearthed. The chambers became known as Egyptian grottoes because they were richly decorated with foreign objects. The most Egyptian-like of these grottoes, the so-called Isis-Tomb of Vulci, is the subject of this book. A spectacular discovery in its day, the Isis-Tomb of Vulci is still a cornerstone for the definition of the Orientalizing Period in Etruria. In this volume, the author makes a reconstruction of the original tomb-group, based upon contemporary documents, as well as shedding light on the history of science at a time when Egyptology and Classical Archaeology developed into proper academic disciplines and the tomb-groups of the Orientalizing Period became of interest to several fields of research. German text.

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Review - German Als im zweiten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts in den Nekropolen Etruriens umfangreiche Ausgrabungen stattfanden, kamen auch Graber der orientalisierenden Periode zutage. Ihre mit fremden Gutern ausgestatteten Kammern wurden als agyptische Grotten bezeichnet. Um die agyptischste dieser Grotten, das Isisgrab von Vulci, geht es in dem vorliegenden Band. Einst eine spektakulare Entdeckung, ist das Isisgrab von Vulci noch heute ein Markstein fur die Definition der orientalisierenden Periode Etruriens. Neben der Rekonstruktion des originalen Grabinventares anhand zeitgenossischer Dokumente wird am Beispiel dieser agyptischen Grotte die Wissenschaftsgeschichte beleuchtet, zu einer Zeit, in der Agyptologie und Klassische Archaologie zu eigenstandigen Disziplinen heranwuchsen und die Grabinventare der orientalisierenden Periode in mehrere Fachgebiete hineinzureichen begannen. Review - English During the second quarter of the 19th century, when extensive excavations were being carried out in the necropolises of Etruria, tombs of the orientalising period were also unearthed. The chambers became known as Egyptian grottos because they were richly decorated with foreign objects. The most Egyptian-like of these grottos, the so-called Isis-Tomb of Vulci, is the subject of this book. A spectacular discovery in its day, the Isis-Tomb of Vulci is still a cornerstone for the definition of the orientalising period in Etruria. In this volume, the author makes a reconstruction of the original tomb-group, based upon contemporary documents, as well as shedding light on the history of science, at a time, when Egyptology and Classical Archaeology developed into proper academic disciplines and the tomb-groups of the orientalising period started to extend into several fields of research.

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Contributor Biography - German Friederike Bubenheimer-Erhart studierte Klassische Archaologie, Agyptologie und Kunstgeschichte an der Universitat Heidelberg sowie den Universitaten Regensburg, London, Basel und Wien. Sie wurde 2002 mit einer interdisziplinaren Dissertation uber das Isisgrab von Vulci an der Universitat Heidelberg mit dem Pradikat summa cum laude promoviert. Von 2003 bis 2005 war sie wissenschaftliche Angestellte am Lehrstuhl fur Klassische Archaologie der Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg und Mitarbeiterin eines Forschungsprojektes uber die Konigsgraber von Tamassos auf Zypern. Seit 2006 ist sie wissenschaftliche Angestellte am Institut fur Agyptologie der Universitat Wien und Leiterin eines interdisziplinaren Forschungsprojektes uber Agyptische Ritualgefasse und deren Rezeption in Etrurien. Seit 2007 lehrt sie ausserdem Klassische Archaologie an der Universitat Wien. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte reichen von der Kunst und Kultur der Etrusker uber agyptische Keramik der Dritten Zwischenzeit und der Spatzeit, Archaologie Griechenlands und Zyperns in archaischer und klassischer Zeit, Kulturkontakte und Akkulturation im Mittelmeerraum bis hin zur Geschichte der Archaologie als Wissenschaft. Contributor Biography - English Friederike Bubenheimer-Erhart studied Classical Archaeology, Egyptology and Art History at the University of Heidelberg as well as the Universities of Regensburg, London, Basel and Vienna. In 2002 she received her PhD from the University of Heidelberg based upon an interdisciplinary dissertation on the Isis-Tomb of Vulci with highest honours. Between 2003 and 2005 she was Research Associate to the Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg and collaborated in a Research Project on the Royal Necropolis of Tamassos on Cyprus. Since 2006 she is Research Associate to the Department of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary Research Project on Egyptian ritual vessels and their adoption in Etruria. Since 2007 she also teaches Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. Her research encompasses the art and archaeology of the Etruscans, Egyptian ceramics of the Third Intermediate and Late Periods, the archaeology of Greece and Cyprus in archaic and classical times, cultural contacts and change in the Mediterranean and the history of archaeology.

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