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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Main Author: Donker van Heel, K. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2014.

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Call Number: HC33 .D66 2014

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100 1 |a Donker van Heel, K.   |q (Koenraad).  |e author  |9 29135 
245 1 0 |a Mrs. Tsenhor :   |b A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt /   |c Koenraad Donker van Heel. 
264 1 |a Cairo ;   |a New York :   |b American University in Cairo Press,   |c 2014. 
300 |a xxiii, 229 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
500 |a OCLC 863194909 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
520 |a "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.  
600 0 0 |a Tsenhor,  |d approximately 550 B.C.-  |9 41289 
650 0 |a Business enterprises  |z Egypt  |x History  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Businessmen  |z Egypt  |x History  |v Sources.  |9 11602 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x Civilization  |v Sources. 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x History  |y To 332 B.C. 
651 0 |a Egypt   |x Antiquities. 
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