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Letters on Egypt : containing a parallel between the manners of its ancient and modern inhabitants...
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Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.
Translation of : Lettres sur l'Égypte.
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 17563.13. :
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins and use of the potter's wheel in ancient Egypt /
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The invention of the wheel is often highlighted as one of humankinds' most significant inventions. Wheels do not exist in nature, and so can be viewed entirely as a human-inspired invention. Machinery too, was relatively rare in the ancient world. The potter's wheel is arguably the most significant machine introduced into Egypt, second only perhaps to the drill, the loom and the bellows for smelting metal. This volume examines this topic.
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Includes QR code. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910617 (PDF ebook) :
The Amarna letters
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During Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty (ca. 1550-1292 BCE), the New Kingdom pharaohs campaigned repeatedly in Syria and the Levant, establishing political control over much of the region. As a result of these conquests, the rulers of Levantine city-states sent letters written in Akkadian in the cuneiform script on clay tablets to the Egyptian pharaohs. So, too, did the kings of the other great geopolitical powers of the time-Assyria, Babylonia, Hatti, and Mittani-maintain an active diplomatic correspondence with Egypt's pharaohs. This new, digitally borne edition of the Amarna Letters offers the first complete collection of the letters; clear and consistent translations; and an up-to-date and extensive bibliography
Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the peninsula of Sinai /
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Appendix: Observations on the discovery, by Professor Lepsius, of sculptured marks on rocks in the Nile valley in Nubia; indicating that, within the historical period, the river had flowed at a higher level than has been known in modern times. By Leonard Horner.
Translation of : Briefe aus Aegypten, Aethiopien und der halbinsel des Sinai. :
1 preliminary leaf, [5]-578 pages : front., illustrations (incl. music) 2 folded maps ; 19 cm.
The Englishwoman in Egypt : letters from Cairo, written during a residence there in 1842-46 /
: "First published in London in three volumes in 1844-46 by Charles Knight." : xix, 257 pages : illustrations, map, port ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 977424799X
A Potter’s Wheelhead from Askut and the Organization of the Egyptian Ceramic Industry in Nubia /
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For the most part, the ceramic assemblage at Askut and the other Nubian fortresses tracks well with pottery from Egypt, and it is clear from the ubiquitous presence of pottery made from marl clays that ceramic vessels were regularly imported from Egyptian workshops in both Upper and Lower Egypt. Large-scale pottery production of Nile Silt vessels, however, is attested during the Middle Kingdom in the Nubian colony at both Mirgissa and Serra East. Wasters and unfired fragments of Nile Silt vessels from Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom contexts in the Southeast Sector at Askut demonstrate that smaller-scale production also existed in the colony. Additionally, a ceramic potter’s wheelhead, the actual flywheel/throwing surface as opposed to the wheel’s stone pivots, was recently identified from the late Middle Kingdom (Thirteenth Dynasty) deposits, the only one attested from Pharaonic Nubia and only the second from a Pharaonic Egyptian context. This evidence points towards a complex system of production and distribution that included industrial workshops at major sites complemented by localized production on a much smaller scale to meet local demand. Ceramic production on the scale seen at Askut would serve modest community needs for the fortress and perhaps the surrounding area in a multi-scalar system of ceramic production.
Egyptian letters to the dead : mainly from the Old and Middle Kingdoms /
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Contains the following texts : The Cairo text on linen, Journ. d'entrée 25975.--The Kâw bowl.--The Hû bowl.--The Berlin bowl, no. 22573.--The Cairo bowl, Cat. gén. 25375.--The Leyden papyrus 371.--Appendix: The Oxford bowl. The Moscow bowl, no. 3917 b. The Liverpool stela, M 13846.
In portfolio.
Text (ch. 1, Translations and general descriptions; ch. 2, Philological commentaries) in 2 pts., each with separate cover. :
32 pages : 1 illustration, 11 plates (part double) ; 40 cm.