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Item Ramesses the Great : Egypt's king of kings(Yale University Press, 2023) Wilkinson, TobyRamesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat--the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh was the first in recorded history. He outbuilt every other Egyptian pharaoh, leaving behind the temples of Abu Simbel; the great hypostyle hall of Karnak; the tomb for his wife Nefertari; and his own memorial, the Ramesseum. His reputation eclipsed that of all other pharaohs as well: he was decried in the Bible as a despot, famed in literature as Ozymandias, and lauded by early antiquarians as the Younger Memnon. His rule coincided with the peak of ancient Egypt's power and prosperity, the New Kingdom (1539-1069 B.C.).Item Beyond Egyptomania : objects, style and agency(De Gruyter, 2020) Versluys, M. J.Neue Forschungen zum Nachleben ÄgyptensItem Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt : the Old and Middle Kingdoms(Cornell University Press, 2021) Troche, JuliaExplores the perceived agency of esteemed dead in ancient Egyptian social, political, and religious life, during the Old through Middle Kingdoms (c. 2700-1650 BCE). It considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt, through the particular lens of mortuary culture and apotheosis-i.e. deificationItem Der Nil in Aswân : Inschriften und Heiligtümer(De Gruyter, 2022) Johannes Seidlmayer, StephanÄgypten ist das Land des Nils. Bei Aswân durchbricht der Fluss eine Felsbarriere aus Granit und bildet die Stromschnellen des Ersten Katarakts. Hier tritt der Nil in das Siedlungsgebiet Ägyptens ein. Sein jährlicher Flutzyklus - rund 8 m betrug die Differenz zwischen Niedrig- und Hochwasser - hatte enorme praktische Auswirkungen auf Verkehr und Transport in dieser Grenz- und Steinbruchregion, vor allem aber für die Wirtschaft des ganzen Landes. Das Alte Ägypten lokalisierte die Quellen der Nilflut in der spektakulären Felslandschaft des Ersten Katarakts, und in den Nilometern im Gebiet von Aswân wurde der Verlauf des lebensentscheidenen Naturphänomens seit ältester Zeit präzise beobachtet und vermessen. Die Ursachen der Nilflut dachte das Alte Ägypten in religiösen Kategorien. In den Riten und Mythen um die Gottheiten in den Tempeln der Region wurden Theorien der sakralen Kontrolle der Flut formuliert. Den Nil technisch zu kontrollieren, blieb der Neuzeit vorbehalten. Die großen Staudämme bei Aswân stehen für dieses letzte Kapitel in der Geschichte des Stroms. Daher eignet sich der Nil als Leitmotiv, Landschaft, Denkmäler, Bilder und Inschriften der Region von Aswân seit ältester Zeit und bis in die Gegenwart zu betrachtenItem Tree of pearls : the extraordinary architectural patronage of the 13th-century Egyptian slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr(Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2020) Ruggles, D. FairchildThe woman known as "Tree of Pearls," who ruled Egypt in the summer of 1250 was unusual in every way. A rare case of a woman ruler, her reign marked the shift from Ayyubid to Mamluk rule, and her architectural patronage of two building complexes changed the face of Cairo and had a lasting impact on Islamic architecture. Rising to power from slave origins, Tree of Pearls-her name in Arabic is Shajar al-Durr-used her wealth and power to add a tomb to the urban madrasa (college) that had been built by her husband, Sultan Salih, and with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed archite++654ctural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. This was the first occasion in Cairo in which a secular patron's relationship to his architectural foundation was reified through the actual presence of his body. The tomb thus profoundly transformed the relationship between architecture and its patron, emphasizing and emblematizing his historical presence. Indeed, the characteristic domed skyline of Cairo that we see today is shaped by such domes that have kept the memory of their named patrons visible to the public eye. This dramatic transformation, in which architecture came to embody human identity, was made possible by the sultan-queen Shajar al-Durr, a woman who began her career as a mere slave-concubine.Her path-breaking patronage contradicts the prevailing assumption among historians of Islam that there was no distinctive female voice in art and architectureItem Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom. II, A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom(De Gruyter, 2020) Aaron Roberson, Joshua; Klotz, DavidThis is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as "cryptography") in the New Kingdom (c.1550-1070 BCE). Enigmatic writing is an extended practice of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, set against immediate decoding and towards revealing additional levels of meaning. This first volume consists of studies by the main specialists in the field. The second volume is a lexicon of all attested enigmatic signs and valuesItem The triumph and trade of Egyptian objects in Rome : collecting art in the ancient Mediterranean(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021) Pearson, StephanieFrom gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored: their role as precious goods in a collector?s economy. The Romans imported and recreated Egyptian goods in the most opulent materials available? gold, gems, expensive wood, ivory, luxurious textiles? and displayed them like true treasures. This is due in part to the way Romans encountered these items, as argued in this book: first as dazzling spolia from the war against Cleopatra, then as costly wares exchanged over the expanding Roman trade routes. In this respect, Romans treated Egyptian art surprisingly similarly to Greek art. By examining the concrete mechanisms through which Egyptian objects were acquired and displayed in Rome, this book offers a new understanding of this impressive material at the crossroads of Hellenistic, Roman, and Egyptian cultureItem Revealing, Transforming, and Display in Egyptian Hieroglyphs(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020) Klotz, David; Stauder, AndréasThe Journal of Egyptian Language and Archaeology is the oldest professional journal in Egyptology. Since 1863 it has published articles on language, literature, history, law, religion, science, magic, the economy, everyday experience, and the material culture of ancient Egypt, as well as on the history of Egyptology. The Supplementary Volumes present monographs and anthologies on the same broad spectrum of issues covered by the journalItem Petitioning Osiris : the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt(De Gruyter, 2023) O. D. Love, EdwardPetitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus" and "Curse of Artemisia" -- written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris - among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt. The textual traditions of the Letters to Gods, to the Dead, and Oracle Questions which evidence that ritual tradition of petitioning deities are contextualised among contemporary textual traditions, such as Letters and Petitions to Human Recipients, and Documents of Self-Dedication, and compared to later ritual traditions such as proactive and reactive curses without and with judicial features (so-called Prayers for Justice) in Greek and Coptic from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. As with all other Letters to Gods, the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia evidence not only the struggles and aspirations of their petitioners, but also the way in which they conceptualised that they could bring about desired outcomes in their lived experience by engaging divine agency through a reciprocal relationship of human-divine interaction. Petitioning Osiris therefore provides a starting point and springboard for readers interested in these, or comparable, textual and ritual traditions from the Ancient World.Item Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age : a Study in Political Economy(De Gruyter, 2021) Langer, ChristianEgyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age explores the political economy of deportations in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BCE) from an interdisciplinary angle. The analysis of ancient Egyptian primary source material and the international correspondence of the time draws a comprehensive picture of the complex and far-reaching policies. The dataset reveals their geographic scope, economic and demographic impact in Egypt and abroad as well as their interconnection with territorial expansion, international relations, and labour management. The supply chain, profiting institutions and individuals in Egypt as the well as the labour tasks, origins and the composition of the deportees are discussed in detail. A comparative analytical framework integrates the Egyptian policies with a review of deportation discourses as well as historical premodern and modern cases and enables a global and diachronic understanding of the topic. The study is thus the first systematic investigation of deportations in ancient Egyptian history and offers new insights into Egyptian governance that revise previous assessments of the role of forced migration und unfree labour in ancient Egyptian society and their long-term effects