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The Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt
by Naphtali Lewis
This is a reprint of Naphtali Lewis' important book on the uses of papyrus records reconstructing life in ancient Egypt. Published in 1986, the first edition of Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt complemented `Life in Egypt under Roman Rule' (reprinted in 1999 as `Classics in Papyrology 1') by providing a perspective on the earlier period. The author presents a series of portraits, describing the lives of inhabitants ranging from the grand (like the ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95

Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'
edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown
This volume offers new research on an essential but often controversial aspect of life in Dynastic Egypt. Its originality lies in combining research which uses Egyptologys traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. The authors are internationally-recognised authorities in their fields. c.233p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2008)
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

The Clothed Body in the Ancient World
edited by Liza Cleland, Mary Harlow and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the study of the clothed body in ancient Egypt and the Aegean, Classical Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. Through literary and artistic evidence and film, they discuss how dress articulates and defines an individual within his or her given ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt
by Patrick Houlihan
Not everyone is aware of the fact but the ancient Egyptians did possess a sense of humour. Patrick Houlihan's interesting and well illustrated study looks for examples of Egyptian wit and humour in their literature and art to determine what it was that made ancient Egyptians smile. These include instances of verbal humour, comical temple decorations and depictions of animals, caricatures or humorous sexual situations on papyri and ostraca. ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £15.95

Women in Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Watterson
Using evidence gleaned from written records, monuments, sculpture, tomb-paintings and the material found in tombs, including objects and human remains, Barbara Watterson has been able to build up an intriguing picture of the lives led by ancient Egyptian women, lives that were free of the restraints normally placed upon women in the rest of the ancient world, allowing them to exercise a full part in society, recognised as equal with men under the ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.99

Late Egypt and Her Neighbors: Foreign Population in Egypt in the First Millennium BC
by Jan Krzysztof Winnicki, translated by Dorota Dzierzbicka
Jan Krzysztof Winnicki passed away in February 2009. This volume, translated by Dorota Dzierzbicka, represents the past twenty years of his research on the foreigners of Egypt.

Foreign ethnic groups have been present in the Nile Valley throughout the entire history of Egypt but information about them is scarce. Using the sources and evidence available, this volume seeks to determine the role, place and significance of foreigners in ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
edited by Jeffrey Szuchman
For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume II
by Geoffrey Killen
Continues the author's survey of Egyptian furniture making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstools, tracing their evolution from earliest times. The book is extensively illustrated with drawings and photographs and includes a corpus of boxes and footstools in museum collections. 91p with 86 figs & 72 plates. (Aris & Phillips 1994)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt
by Carolyn Graves-Brown
The popular view of ancient Egpytian women is one of glamour and exoticism, fuelled by depictions in Egyptian art as much as by Hollywood epics. Aimed at both the general reader and the scholar, this book seeks to provide a more rounded picture, exploring the daily lives of ordinary Egyptian women as well as the rich, but showing that the roles and position of women in Egyptian society did have aspects which were unusual for ancient ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Egypt in Transition. Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE
edited by Ladislav Bares, Filip Coppens and Kveta Smoláriková
The first millennium BCE represents for Egypt a period of tremendous changes and developments on the political, social, economic and religious level. The millennium was shaped and characterised by a continuous interaction between Egypt as an independent political entity, with its indigenously developed social and religious system, and various political, military and cultural forces and influences introduced into the country, both through ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00