Mrs. Tsenhor : A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt /
"From the papers she left behind, a picture emerges of a woman who had firm control over her own life. We are dealing here with an Egyptian woman in the fifth century BCE who owned houses and land, worked in the necropolis as a professional choachyte, and most probably did more business of whic...
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Language: English
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2014.
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Call Number: HC33 .D66 2014
| Summary: | "From the papers she left behind, a picture emerges of a woman who had firm control over her own life. We are dealing here with an Egyptian woman in the fifth century BCE who owned houses and land, worked in the necropolis as a professional choachyte, and most probably did more business of which we are uinaware. In fact, what we have here is an unprecedented and privileged peek into the life of an ancient Egyptian girl next door that will never make it into the official history books"--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | OCLC 863194909 |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9774166345 9789774166341 |