Language & Texts
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Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE [Paperback]
Erica Mathieson (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9782503552415
Published by : Brepols
The documentary papyri are an unparalleled source for the study of women in antiquity. Among them are numbers of female-authored texts which allow women’s voices to be heard. In the period to 400 CE twenty-six of these texts... .... Learn More -
Middle Egyptian Literature [Hardback]
James P. Allen (Author)
£57.00ISBN: 9781107087439
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian, this book contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely r... .... Learn More -
Middle Egyptian Literature [Paperback]
James P. Allen (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9781107456075
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian, this book contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely r... .... Learn More -
Texts from the Archive of Socrates the Tax Collector and Other Contexts at Karanis [Hardback]
Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi (Editor); Cornelia Romer (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9783110342154
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum (Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926.
Many of the texts published here co... .... Learn More -
Loi et coutume dans l’Égypte grecque et romaine [Hardback]
Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski (Author)
£68.00ISBN: 9788393842506
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
The book is devoted to the sources of law from Egypt during the millennium from the rule of Alexander the Great (332 B.C.) till Arab conquest (640 A.D.). They are known through documents, mostly Greek, but also Egyptian and Latin,... .... Learn More -
Ramesside Inscriptions, Volume IV, Merenptah and the Late Nineteenth Dynasty: Notes and Comments [Hardback]
Benedict G. Davies (Author)
£258.00ISBN: 9780631184379
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
Based on the hieroglyphic texts of the Ramesside Period of Ancient Egypt (c.1300–1100 BC), this volume of commentaries complements K.A. Kitchen’s previously published Ramesside Inscriptions, Volume IV, Translated and A... .... Learn More -
The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians, 1: Surgery, Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics [Hardback]
Hana Vymazalova (Author); Bretislav Vachala (Author); Eugen Strouhal (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9789774166402
Published by : American University in Cairo Press
Ancient Egyptian medicine employed advanced surgical practices, while the prevention and treatment of diseases relied mostly on natural remedies and magical incantations. In the first of two volumes, The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians expl... .... Learn More
Interpretations of Sinuhe [Paperback]
Harold M. Hays (Editor); F. Feder (Editor); Ludwig D. Morenz (Editor)
£41.00ISBN: 9789042931220
Published by : Peeters Publishers
The Tale of Sinuhe is the best-known text from ancient Egypt, and equally the one about which the most has been written. And yet its depths have not been fully fathomed, in respect neither to its cultural and literary value, nor t... .... Learn More
Ramesside Inscriptions, Volume VII, Addenda to I - VI: Translations [Hardback]
Kenneth A. Kitchen (Editor)
£258.00ISBN: 9780631184331
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
The latest in a respected series of translations of the hieroglyphic texts of the Ramesside Age of Ancient Egypt (c.1300-1100 BC) The seventh volume collects a wide range of writings from Ramesses I through XI to complement the pr... .... Learn More
Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest [Hardback]
James G. Keenan (Editor); J. G. Manning (Editor); Uri Yiftach-Firanko (Editor)
£108.00ISBN: 9780521874526
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The study of ancient law has blossomed in recent years. In English alone there have been dozens of studies devoted to classical Greek and Roman law, to the Roman legal codes, and to the legal traditions of the ancient Near East am... .... Learn More
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