Language & Texts
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The Oxford Handbook of Childhood Education in the Classical World [Hardback]
Judith Evans Grubbs (Editor); Tim Parkin (Editor); Roslynne Bell (Editor)
£105.00ISBN: 9780199781546
Published by : Oxford University Press
The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but conside... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Past [Hardback]
Colleen Manassa (Author)
Regular Price: £51.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9780199982226
Published by : Oxford University Press
Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after the rise to power of the warrio... .... Learn More -
The Amarna Boundary Stelae [Paperback]
John Johnson (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9780992710606
Published by : Horus Egyptology
Around 1350 BC, when Akhenaten founded his new city of Amarna, he marked out its perimeter with a number of boundary stelae. This book publishes the stelae, comprising the 'early proclamation' on stela X, and the proclamation from... .... Learn More -
Decorum and experience: essays on ancient culture for John Baines [Hardback]
Elizabeth Frood (Editor); Angela McDonald (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780900416927
Published by : Griffith Institute
This diverse collection of papers aims to reflect a broad area of subjects that have captured John Baines’ interests over the years, focusing in particular on the Ancient Egyptian world. The first part of the volume is made ... .... Learn More -
The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt [Hardback]
Christopher Eyre (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780199673896
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative a... .... Learn More -
Das ägyptische Investiturritual [Paperback]
Martin Bommas (Author)
£41.00ISBN: 9781407311838
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Volume: 2562
Based on a new edition of Moscow 314 Papyrus from the Middle Kingdom, this study identifies for the first time the ancient Egyptian ritual of investiture. Serving as a tool of re-attunement, the ritual speech act, pivotal for the ... .... Learn More -
Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum from the 13th - 17th Dynasties [Hardback]
M. Marée (Author); D. Franke (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780714119878
Published by : British Museum Press
Volume: 1
The British Museum holds the largest collection of Middle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt. This is the first full publication of the collection: the scenes and inscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described in detail, with textu... .... Learn More -
JJP 42 (2012) Journal of Juristic Papyrology [Hardback]
Tomasz Derda (Editor); Adam Łajtar (Editor); Jakub Urbanik (Editor)
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Les Astres dans les Textes Religieux en Egypte Antique et dans les Hymnes Orphiques [Paperback]
Amanda-Alice Maravelia (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781841719641
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Oxbow says: Based on the author's PhD, this volume studies 'the celestial bodies in the religious texts of ancient Egypt and in the Hellenic Orphic Hymns'. Maravelia examines the development of astronomical thought and concepts, including those... .... Learn More -
Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw [Paperback]
Stephen Quirke (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781906137311
Published by : Golden House Publications
Volume: 20
First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period. Th... .... Learn More
