Company of Images: Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1500 BC): Proceedings of the International Conference of the EPOCHS Project held 18th-20th September 2014 at UCL, London

From prehistoric figurines and graffiti to modern digital photographs,

human beings repeatedly produced images, transforming the world itself

into a relentless fabric of images. This volume presents the proceedings

of the international conference held at the Institute of Archaeology -

UCL, London in 2014 inside the framework of the European project

EPOCHS , with the aim to explore the fertile imaginary world of Middle

Bronze Age Egypt (2000-1500 BC). Images do not exist in their

ontological isolation, as atomic unity, but they form a complex agency

network with other images and with the society that produced them, hence

the title Company of Images . Eighteen papers focus on this intricate

web, tackling the topic from different perspectives: material culture,

archaeological finds, anthropological and social relations, iconographic

representations, and analysis of the written sources, including

linguistic approaches. The final goal is to highlight theoretical and

methodological issues in order to explore connections between the images

and their society, people who created images and who were recursively

affected by the images they created.