Foreigners and Egyptians in the late Egyptian stories : linguistic, literary and historical perspectives /
: Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis, 2009. : xx, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004250888 (hardback : acid-free paper) : 0169-9601 ;
Ancient Egyptian biographies : contexts, forms, functions /
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"(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. 0The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience"--
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vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781948488280
Roman lives : a selection of eight Roman lives /
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Index of literary and historical sources cited by Plutrach' : p.535-536 Index of proper names : pages 357-551 Translated from the Ancient Greek
Translation of : Lives. :
xxxiv, 551 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-536) and index.
Ships of the desert and ships of the sea : Palmyra in the World Trade of the first three centuries CE /
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In the Roman period the world from the Atlantic Ocean to the East China Sea was tied together by ships and caravans carrying textiles, minerals, aromatics, and other valuable commodities across vast distances. In the span of three short centuries the Syrian city of Palmyra rose from unremarkable origins to assume a key role in this exchange, a position that eventually enabled her to, albeit unsuccessfully, take on the might of Rome herself. This first book-length survey of Palmyrene trade in almost four decades asks how this was possible for the people of a city that was neither on the shortest, nor on the easiest route between east and west. The study draws on the wealth of epigraphic, literary, and archaeological data handed down from the ancient city as well as the extensive scholarly tradition. This material is juxtaposed with information about the natural and geopolitical environment, ethnographic records, and network analysis, in order to explain the remarkable success of the cosmopolitan desert nomads of Palmyra.
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vii, 112 pages : 14 illustrations, 9 maps ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-106) and index. :
9783447107044
The Roman emperor and his court c. 30 BC-c. AD 300 /
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"At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the field of Roman history, and previous studies have focused on narrowly defined aspects or on particular periods of Roman history. This book makes a major contribution to understanding the history of the Roman imperial court. The first volume presents nineteen original essays covering all the major dimensions of the court from the age of Augustus to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The second volume is a collection of the ancient sources that are central to studying that court. The collection includes: translations of literary sources, inscriptions, and papyri; plans and computer visualizations of archaeological remains; and photographs of archaeological sites and artworks depicting the emperor and his court"--
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volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781316513231
Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society /
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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE" --
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x, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521764438
Ancient Syria : a three thousand year history /
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Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD.
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xiv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780199646678 :
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Causing his name to live : studies in Egyptian epigraphy and history in memory of William J. Murnane /
: "Bibliography of William J. Murnane" : pages [179]-182. : xii, 237 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait, plans (some color) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004176447