Language & Texts
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Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts Documents and Sources [Hardback]
Lincoln H. Blumell (Editor); Thomas A. Wayment (Editor)
£85.99ISBN: 9781602585393
Published by : Baylour University Press
Blumell and Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. Christian Oxyrhynchus provides new and expanded editions of Christ... .... 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
Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC-Ad 800 [Paperback]
Roger S. Bagnall (Author)
£47.50ISBN: 9780472036226
Published by : University of Michigan Press
When historians study the women of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquity, they are generally dependent on ancient literature written by men. But women themselves did write and dictate. And only in their own private letters can we discover unmediate... .... Learn More
JJP Supplement 25 (2015) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: The Alexandrian Church. People and Institutions [Hardback]
Ewa Wipszycka (Author)
£66.50ISBN: 9788393842544
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 25
… a description of the hierarchical Church, its framework and machinery. The word ‘description’ is somehow too narrow to express what I would like to present, for my ambition is to show how the ecclesiastical in... .... Learn More
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity [Paperback]
Daniel Stolzenberg (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780226273273
Published by : University of Chicago Press
In 1655, after more than two decades of toil, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80) published his solution to the Egyptian hieroglyphs, "Oedipus Aegyptiacus", a work that has been called "one of the most learned monstrosities of all... .... Learn More
Graeco-Roman Archives from the Fayum [Hardback]
K. Vandorpe (Author); W. Clarysse (Author); H. Verreth (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9789042931626
Published by : Peeters Publishers
The Fayum is a large depression in the western desert of Egypt, receiving its water directly from the Nile. In the early Ptolemaic period the agricultural area expanded a great deal, new villages were founded and many Greeks settl... .... Learn More
Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus [Paperback]
William A. Johnson (Author)
£41.99ISBN: 9781442626416
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Over a century of excavations at the Hellenistic and Roman city of Oxyhrhynchus in Egypt have uncovered many hundreds of texts on papyri, providing an invaluable source for many aspects of life as well as reading, writing and book production. T... .... Learn More
The Language of Ramesses [Paperback]
Francois Neveu (Author); Maria Cannata (Translator)
£29.95ISBN: 9781782978688
Published by : Oxbow Books
François Neveu enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language &nda... .... Learn More
Studies in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen [Hardback]
Cosetta Cadau (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789004279506
Published by : Brill
This first monograph in English on Colluthus situates this late antique author within his cultural context and offers a new appraisal of his hexameter poem The Abduction of Helen, the end-point of the pagan Greek epic tradition, w... .... Learn More
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