Saite and Persian demotic cattle documents : a study in legal forms and principles in ancient Egypt /
: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Chicago, 1983. : xvi, 126 pages [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-111) and index. : 0891308547
An ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead : the papyrus of Sobekmose /
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'The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose', in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such papyrus scrolls were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that were thought to assist a dead person on their journey into the afterlife. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major text that can speak to us from beginning to end in the order in which it was composed. The papyrus itself is one of the longest of its kind to come down to us from the New Kingdom, a time when Egypt's international power and prosperity were at their peak. This new translation not only represents a great step forward in the study of these texts, but also grants modern readers a direct encounter with what can seem a remote and alien civilization. With language that is, in many places, unquestionably evocative and very beautiful, it offers a look into the mindset of the ancient Egyptians, highlighting their beliefs and anxieties about this world as well as the next. The papyrus itself is reproduced in its entirety and the translation is prefaced by a fully illustrated introductory essay which, along with a brief chronology of ancient Egypt and a glossary guiding the reader through the religious and mythological terminology that they will encounter, grounds it in its historical context.
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Glossary of terms and names, and chronology. :
216 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 205-207. :
9780500051887
Aramaic documents from Egypt : a key-word-in-context concordance /
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A key-word-in-context concordance to the Aramaic materials from Elephantine published in Textbook of Aramaic documents from ancient Egypt ([Jerusalem] : Hebrew University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People ; Winona Lake, IN, U.S.A. : Distributed by Eisenbrauns, �1986-�1999). :
xvi, 495 pages ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-495) and index. :
157506068X
9781575060682
Daily life in ancient Egyptian personal correspondence /
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This publication considers a selection of letters from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Twenty-first Dynasty. Under the topic headings of 'problems and issues', 'daily life', 'religious matters', 'military and police matters', it demonstrates the insight such texts can provide regarding aspects of belief, relationships, custom and behaviour.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (136 pages). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789695083 (PDF ebook) :