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Hundred-Gated Thebes : Acts of a Symposium on Thebes and the Theban Area in the Graeco-Roman Period /
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The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. This material constitute one end of a chain which links the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses on the one hand with their tombs and their tomb inventories on the other, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers. The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid. It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloqium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloqium are published here.
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Mummies : death and the afterlife in ancient Egypt : treasures from the British Museum /
: Catalogue of Exhibition organized by the British Museum and presented by the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA. : 242 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm : Includes bibliographical references. : 0967961262
Magical and medical papyri of the New Kingdom /
: Plates consist chiefly of double pages, with photographic facsimile of papyrus fragment and (hieroglyphic) transcription on facing pages. : x, 109 pages, 52 [ie. 100] pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 071411930X
Ancient faces : mummy portraits from Roman Egypt /
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"This volume also serves as Part IV of A Catalogue of Roman Portraits in the British Museum"
The majority of portraits in this exhibition, a joint project of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities and the Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum, are from the British Museum. :
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 216-217. :
0714109894 (pbk.)