ventagli nelle rappresentazioni dell'Antico Egitto. Ed. Alquati,
Milano 2016. 280 pp., 106 fig.
In the shadow of the divine. The meaning of fans in the
representations of ancient Egypt". In Egyptian representations
appear quite often fans that show us different uses: military
banners, fans to refresh and to refresh braziers, fans that
highlight symbolic meanings. Representation, like comics, is an
archaic form of communication that is apparently easy and immediate
to read. In reality this type of communication, when it is symbolic,
presents difficulties in interpretation also because these
representations are the legacy of a world far away and very different
from our cultural patterns. Over time I have collected a series of
representations in which appear fans with cryptic meaning, so as to
constitute a kind of repertoire of images in which the presence of
the fan is symbolic. This repertoire allowed me to formulate
interpretative hypotheses of the different scenes in which fans
appear, also in the light of the Egyptian anthropological conceptionin which shadow fans are closely associated with the "soul"-/ba./
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