Djekhy & son : doing business in Ancient Egypt /
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"Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile. They were also successful agricultural entrepreneurs, cultivating flax and grain. In 1885, the German Egyptologist August Eisenlohr acquired a unique collection of papyri that turned out to be Djekhy's archive of mainly legal documents. Using this rich trove of evidence, augmented by many other sources, the author has painted a vivid picture of life in ancient Egypt between 570 and 534 BCE, during the little-known Saite period. Approaching the subject from both business and personal aspects, he gives us a fresh look at some facets of ancient Egypt that have mostly been hidden from view-such as putting up one's children as security for a loan."--Publisher description.
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"Dar el Kutub No. 24398/11"--Title page verso. :
xvii, 193 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175) and index. :
9789774164774
Les mathématiques de l'Égypte ancienne : numération, métrologie, arithmétique, géométrie et autres problèmes /
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"Les nombreux problèmes et extraits analysés relèvent du corpus mathématique de base datant du Moyen Empire, mais également de documents administratifs et de documents plus récents tels les papyri démotiques. Ce que ces textes nous enseignent dépasse parfois le cadre purement mathématique en donnant des indications sur les valeurs marchandes de produits ou services, les montants de certains salaires ou taxes, les prévisions d'un chantier, la construction d'éléments architecturaux, la gestion des récoltes et du bétail ou la fabrication de la bière" --
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603 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-579) and index. :
9782874570407
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
Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead : The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living /
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In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: the Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters. Hsieh shows how oral indicators, toponyms, and adverbs in these Letters signal a practice that was likely performed aloud in a tomb or necropolis, and how the senders of these Letters demonstrate a belief in the power and omniscience of their deceased relatives and enjoin them to fight malevolent entities and advocate on their behalf in the afterlife. These Letters reflect universals in beliefs and practices and how humankind, past and present, makes sense of existence beyond death.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004472327
9789004472310