Language & Texts

ISBN: 9789004182950
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private let... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199292011
Published by : Oxford University Press
Essays straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts, addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragm... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781575069371
Published by : Eisenbrauns
The earliest connected Semitic texts known to modern scholars are usually thought to be East Semitic texts from Mesopotamia, written in the cuneiform script. In this monograph, Richard C. Steiner deciphers Semitic texts that are even earlier - ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042924314
Published by : Peeters Press
Publishes 157 tax receipts and other texts from Thebes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt (332-200 BC), including 102 Demotic texts and 55 Greek or bilingual texts. The texts are grouped and discussed by tax category, whilst additional chapters reconstru... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308463
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study presents a statistical analysis of the Egyptian medical text Papyrus Ebers, with the aim of identifying and analysing patterns in prescriptions. In this way the author is able to point to some of the principles and systems at work in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856982057
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
This volume features all the graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society by Bryan Emery between 1966 and 1971. The graffiti include dedications to the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856982002
Published by : Egypt Exploration Society
The Mother of Apis inscriptions (534-41 BC), found in 1966-71 in and outside the Mother of Apis Catacomb at North Saqqara by the Egypt Exploration Society, comprise the stelae and graffiti of the masons who constructed the catacomb and of the p... .... Learn More

Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 41
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ISBN: 9780979975844
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Volume: 51
This volume publishes the most complete documentary codex from 6th-century Egypt. Known to the scholarly world since 1905 and frequently cited since then, it now appears for the first time in full edition. The codex details money taxes paid by... .... Learn More