Language & Texts
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The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers: A Mythological, Religious, Literary and Historico-Political Study [Paperback]
Susan Tower Hollis (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 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 ... .... Learn More -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt During the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period [Paperback]
Silke Grallert (Author); Wolfram Grajetzki (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 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 -
Papyri in Memory of P. J. Sijpesteijn [Hardback]
A. J. B. Sirks (Author); K. A. Worp (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 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 -
Greek Documentary Papyri from Egypt in the Berlin Aegyptisches Museum [Hardback]
Nahum Cohen (Author); Claude Cohen (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 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 -
JJP 35 (2005) Journal of Juristic Papyrology [Hardback]
Tomasz Derda (Editor)
£40.00Published 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 -
Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum [Paperback]
George R. Hughes (Author)
Regular Price: £58.00
Special Price: £12.95
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 -
Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the British Museum III [Hardback]
F. R. Herbin (Author); Gunther Lapp (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 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 -
Greek Ostraka from Kellis [Hardback]
Colin A. Hope (Author); K. A. Worp (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781842171288
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph
Volume: 13
This volume publishes 293 texts inscribed in Greek on potsherds excavated at Ismant el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. These texts date from the 2nd - 4th centuries AD, and they contain documentary evidence for a wide range of subjects such as t... .... Learn More -
Ramesside Ostraca [Hardback]
R J Demaree (Author)
£125.00ISBN: 9780714119458
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
This volume is the first in the British Museum's Egyptian catalogue series to be devoted to ostraca, as oppose to other inscribed media. It publishes in full the hieratic ostraca of the Ramesside Period - a large, rich and varied collection cov... .... Learn More -
Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hôl Rock Inscriptions 1-45 [Hardback]
John Coleman Darnell (Author); Deborah Darnell (Author)
Regular Price: £58.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781885923172
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 119
This volume publishes forty-five inscriptions from Gebel Tjauti and forty-five inscriptions from Wadi el-Hôl, two major concentrations of rock inscriptions and rock art on pharaonic caravan routes of the Egyptian Western Desert. The inscription... .... Learn More
