Language & Texts

ISBN: 9780714119687
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: LERTBM
The British Museum's collection of late hieratic religious papyri, particularly those of the Graeco-Roman period, is one of the most important in the world, in terms both of its number and its diversity. The papyri mainly comprise funerary text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780970059154
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: American Studies in Papyrology
Volume: 43
Editions of ninety-one papyri associated with the day-to-day administration of the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit during the VIII century, seventy-eight of which are published for the first time. Many of the papyri are orders issued by the head o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780977409426
Published by : Bannerstone Press
^DWhat is the meaning of this story from antiquity, so similar in form to the European folktale? The "Tale of Two Brothers" describes a rite of passage, telling the the nearly universal story of a handsome and chaste young shepherd who reje... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906137014
Published by : Golden House Publications
A collection of nine thematic essays on the culture of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period, focusing on mortuary stelae, inscriptions, burials and coffin decoration. More specifically, it includes papers on 'Principles of decoration ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780970059109
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: American Studies in Papyrology
Volume: 40
Noted Papyrologist Dr Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn died in 1996. This publication is a collection of papers dedicated to his memory from his fellow papyrologists. The contributions provide an appealing impression of the multifarious content of p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780970059161
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: American Studies in Papyrology
Volume: 44
Greek Documentary Papyri is a volume in the series American Studies in Papyrology . It contains discussions of twenty documentary papyri from the Roman period. .... Learn More

Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Journal
Volume: 35
Contents: Wineries and their Elements in Graeco-Roman Egypt; Oxyrynchite Villages, Men, and Money; Four Inscriptions from Marina/el-Alamein; Two Greek Christian Epitaphs from Egypt; Greek, Egyptian and Roman Law; Security for Debt in the Demoti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923271
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Communications
Volume: 29
This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all the pieces plus only such information as wo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714119564
Published by : British Museum Press
The Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan in the British Museum preserves one of the most extensive collections outside Egypt of funerary papyri, among which the greatest number bear texts from the repertory known to the ancient Egyptians as th... .... Learn More