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A Social and Religious Analysis of New Kingdom Votive Stelae: Display and Devotion [Hardback]
Eric Wells (Author)
£106.99ISBN: 9783110466539
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Religious practice in ancient Egypt is often studied from two distinct and separate perspectives: temple-based religious practice, and so-called personal piety, or popular religion. This characterization of ancient Egyptian religion is the direct ... .... Learn More -
Current Research in Egyptology 16 (2015) [Paperback]
Alto Belekdanian (Editor); Christelle Alvarez (Editor); Solene Klein (Editor); Ann-Katrin Gill (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781785703638
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Current Research in Egyptology
Volume: 16
The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, t... .... Learn More -
The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island [Hardback]
Eugene Cruz-Uribe (Author)
£81.00ISBN: 9781937040475
Published by : Lockwood Press
This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. New editions of 101 of the graffiti that were published by F. Griffith in his Catalogue of the Demotic Pa... .... Learn More
Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt: A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity [Hardback]
Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (Author)
£104.00ISBN: 9781107108387
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This interdisciplinary study investigates the divine personas in the so-called magical hymns of the Greek magical papyri which, in a corpus usually seen as a significant expression of religious syncretism with strong Egyptian influence, were long ... .... Learn More
Graeco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature Translation and Culture 500 BC-AD 300 [Hardback]
Ian Rutherford (Editor)
£80.00ISBN: 9780199656127
Published by : Oxford University Press
Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when... .... Learn More
Coping with Obscurity: The Brown Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar (Wilbour Studies in Egypt and Ancient Western Asia) [Hardback]
Andreas Stauber (Editor); Mark A. Collier (Editor); James P. Allen (Editor)
£78.00ISBN: 9781937040420
Published by : Lockwood Press
Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier Egyptian grammar in March, 2013. The workshop united ten scholars of differing viewpoints dealing with the central question of how to judge and interp... .... Learn More
A Royal Book of Protection of the Saite Period: PBrooklyn 47.218.49 [Paperback]
Paul F. O'Rourke (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9780974002576
Published by : Yale Egyptological Seminar
This new study offers a comprehensive examination of a unique manuscript, a Late Period hieratic papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum. This document comprises a compilation of seventeen individual prophylactic texts whose anatomical focus is the ear. Ma... .... Learn More
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World, 500 BC - AD 300 [Hardback]
Antonia Sarri (Author)
£75.53ISBN: 9783110426946
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistol... .... Learn More
An Archaeological Discussion of Writing Practice: Deconstruction of the Ancient Egyptian Scribe (GHP Egyptology) [Paperback]
Massimiliano Samuele Pinarello (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781906137458
Published by : Golden House Publications
Focusing on Old Kingdom Egypt, this volume asks how archaeological evidence can be used to critique constructions of literacy, and the role and categorisation of the scribe, building a picture of a more diverse ... .... Learn More
Lotus and Laurel [Hardback]
Rune Nyord (Editor); Kim Ryholt (Editor)
£66.50ISBN: 9788763542081
Published by : Museum Tusculanum Press
Lotus and Laurel brings together a wealth of essays in celebration of Paul John Frandsen, who has had a distinguished career as a scholar of ancient Egyptian language and religion. The contributors are friends, colleagues, or form... .... Learn More
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