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Egypt Literature & Papyri
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Le Livre des Morts de l'Égypte ancienne: Traduction et translittération
by Claude Carrier
The last element in a series of funerary texts that also includes the Pyramid Texts and the Sarcophagus Texts, the Book of the Dead has accompanied the deceased from the Egyptian New Kingdom to Roman times. This volume presents a translation and transliteration of the 192 chapters of what is today considered the book's corpus of texts. French text. 879p (Librairie Cybèle 2009)
Paperback. Price US$143.00
The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers: A Mythological, Religious, Literary and Historico-Political Study
by Susan Tower Hollis
What is the meaning of this story from antiquity, so similar in form to the European folktale? The "Tale of Two Brothers" describes a rite of passage, telling the the nearly universal story of a handsome and chaste young shepherd who rejects seduction by a powerful older woman and, after many adventures, becomes king. The story of this shepherd, Bata, is intertwined with that of his brother Anubis who, deceived at first, is unceasing in his ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$24.95, Our Price US$20.00
Books of Breathing and Related Texts: Catalogue of the Books of the Dead and Other Religious Texts in the British Museum, Volume IV
by F R Herbin
The collection of late hieratic religious papyri in the British Museum is one of the most important in the world. This volume deals with the Books of Breathing and related texts, comprising about fifty papyri all from the Ptolemaic or Roman periods. The catalogue provides a general introduction, complete translation and commentary for each papyrus. 384p, 240 b/w illus. (British Museum Press 2008)
Hardback. Price US$190.00
Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow by A. G. McDowell
Mcdowell, A. G.
This volume presents the 27 limestone and hieratic ostraca collected by Rev. Colin Campbell in Egypt at the turn of the century and donated by him to the Hunterian Museum. All but one come from the New Kingdom community of Deir el-Medina, the exception being a Ptolemaic copy of the Offering of the mnw-vase. The main group of ostraca contains hymns, magical, literary, administrative, legal and economic texts. Many texts are published here ...
Hardback. Price US$64.00
The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem: Walters Art Museum 551
by Yekaterina Barbash
This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The initial text, a Ritual of Introducing the Multitude on the Last Day of Tekh, is identified as a temple liturgy by its rubric title, while its themes recall love poetry and the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The second text, a ...
Paperback. Price US$55.00
Série des Papyrus du Livre des Morts de l'Égypte Ancienne. Volume I: Le Papyrus de Nouou (BM EA 10477). Traduction / Translittération and transcription hiéroglyphique
edited by Claude Carrier
English summary: This book offers a translation/transliteration of all chapters in the present Papyrus de Nouou (BM EA 10477), that is to say, the 135 of the 192 chapters currently considered to constitute the core of the Book of the Dead. Dated from the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty and stemming from the left bank of Thebes, the papyrus currently retains a one piece length of over 19 meters. The first appendix allows for a viewing ...
Série des Papyrus du Livre des Morts de l'Égypte Ancienne. Volume II: Le Papyrus dAny (BM EA 10470). Traduction / Translittération and reproduction du fac-similé
edited by Claude Carrier
English summary: This book offers a translation/transliteration of all chapters found in the Papyrus of Any (BM EA 10470), that is to say, the 62 of the 192 chapters currently considered to constitute the core of the Book of the Dead. Dated from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty and stemming from the left bank of Thebes, it currently retains a one piece length of over 23 meters. The first appendix allows for the viewing of drawings ...
Paperback. Price US$128.00
Textes des Pyramides de l'Egypt Ancienne Tome IV, Textes des pyramides de Mérenrê, d'Aba, de Neit, d'Ipout et d'Oudjebten
by Claude Carrier
From the Foreword by James P. Allen, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Brown University: The Pyramid Texts represent the oldest collection of literature of ancient Egypt. We call these records "Pyramid Texts" because they appear first in the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (circa 2350-2150 BC).
Most studies of these texts focus on the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty - that of kings Unas, ...
Textes des Pyramides de l'Egypt Ancienne, Tome V: Textes de tombes de particuliers antérieures à la XIXe dynastie et des XXVe-XXVIIe dynastie
by Claude Carrier
From the Foreword by James P. Allen, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Brown University: The Pyramid Texts represent the oldest collection of literature of ancient Egypt. We call these records "Pyramid Texts" because they appear first in the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (circa 2350-2150 BC).
Most studies of these texts focus on the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty - that of kings Unas, ...
Paperback. Price US$147.00
Textes des Pyramides de l'Egypte Ancienne, Tome III: Textes de la pyramide de Pépy II
by Claude Carrier
From the Foreword by James P. Allen, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Brown University: The Pyramid Texts represent the oldest collection of literature of ancient Egypt. We call these records "Pyramid Texts" because they appear first in the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (circa 2350-2150 BC).
Most studies of these texts focus on the pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasty - that of kings Unas, ...
Paperback. Price US$107.00
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