Papyrus : the plant that changed the world, from ancient egypt to today's water war /
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Offers an examination of the papyrus plant, looking at the important role it played in ancient Egyptian culture as a source of paper, as well as its unique properties that could help combat ecological and social problems in the modern world.
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xix, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index. :
9781605985664
The Derveni papyrus : unearthing ancient mysteries /
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The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod's Theogony and Parmenides' poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004384859 :
0169-9652 ;
Papyrus Reisner IV : personnel accounts of the early twelfth dynasty /
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Introductory matter in English ; each of the Egyptian Hieratic text facsims. is accompanied by a hieroglyphic transcription on the opposite page.
This papyrus, the 4th of 4 rolls now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was found in tomb N408, subsequently renumbered N406, a Nag' ed Deir during excavations directed by George A. Reisner on behalf of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition of the University of California in 1904. :
47 pages, 33, [1] pages of plates : illustrations ; 41 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (page 26) and indexs. :
0878462619
Papyrus Reisner II : accounts of the dockyard workshop at This in the reign of Sesotris I. /
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Twenty-four of the plates constitute the facsimile ed. of the papyrus, the transcription is on opposite plates.
"The papyrus was found during excavations directed by George A. Reisner, and is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston".
Translation given in "Analysis of sections" (pages 20-35) :
60 pages : illustrations, 48 plates (part folded) ; 41 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 11.
Papyrus Reisner III : the records of a building project in the early twelfth dynasty /
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Introductory matter in English ; each of the Egyptian hieratic text facsims. is accompanied by a hieroglyphic transcription on the opposite page.
This papyrus, the 3d of 4 rolls now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was found in tomb N408 at Nagʻ ed Deir during excavations directed by George A. Reisner on behalf of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition of the University of California in 1904. :
45 pages : illustrations, 21 Facsimiles (part folded) ; 41 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references.
Papyrus Reisner I : the records of a building project in the reign of Sesostris I. /
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Thirty-one of the plates constitute the facsimile ed. of the papyrus, with plates of transcription interspersed.
The papyrus was found by George Andrew Reisner and is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston.
"Translation" : pages 111-133. :
142 pages : 55 plates ; 41 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 11-13.