Recueil de Textes Démotiques Et Bilingues

Recueil de Textes Démotiques Et Bilingues PDF Author: P.W. Pestman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541624
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 185

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The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789004052550).

Recueil de Textes Démotiques Et Bilingues

Recueil de Textes Démotiques Et Bilingues PDF Author: P.W. Pestman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541624
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 185

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Book Description
The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789004052550).

Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues

Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues PDF Author: Ernst Boswinkel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004057722
Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History PDF Author: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521234450
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors.

Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive

Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive PDF Author: P.W. Pestman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Law and Society in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest

Law and Society in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest PDF Author: James G. Keenan
Publisher:
ISBN: 1139861514
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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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 among many other topics. Legal documents written on papyrus began to be published in some abundance by the end of the nineteenth century; but even after substantial publication history, legal papyri have not received due attention from legal historians. This book blends the two usually distinct juristic scholarly traditions, classical and Egyptological, into a coherent presentation of the legal documents from Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the late Byzantine periods, all translated and accompanied by expert commentary. The volume will serve as an introduction to the rich legal sources from Egypt in the later phases of its ancient history as well as a tool to compare legal documents from other cultures.

The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt (P.L. Bat. 24)

The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt (P.L. Bat. 24) PDF Author: Willy Clarysse
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004068797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Hundred-Gated Thebes

Hundred-Gated Thebes PDF Author: P.W. Pestman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. This material constitute one end of a chain which links the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses on the one hand with their tombs and their tomb inventories on the other, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers. The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid. It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloqium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloqium are published here.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt PDF Author: Christina Riggs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199571457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Book Description
This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research.

A History of the Ptolemaic Empire

A History of the Ptolemaic Empire PDF Author: Günther Hölbl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135119767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC. The skilful integration of material from a vast array of sources allows the reader to trace the political and religious development of one of the most powerful empires of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. It shows how the success of the Ptolemies was due in part to their adoption of many features of the Egyptian Pharaohs who preceded them - their deification and funding of cults and temples throughout Egypt.

The Egyptian Hermes

The Egyptian Hermes PDF Author: Garth Fowden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691024981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early seventeenth century, few doubted the attribution. Even when unmasked, Hermes remained a byword for the arcane. Historians of ancient philosophy have puzzled much over the origins of his mystical teachings; but this is the first investigation of the Hermetic milieu by a social historian. Starting from the complex fusions and tensions that molded Graeco-Egyptian culture, and in particular Hermetism, during the centuries after Alexander, Garth Fowden goes on to argue that the technical and philosophical Hermetica, apparently so different, might be seen as aspects of a single "way of Hermes." This assumption that philosophy and religion, even cult, bring one eventually to the same goal was typically late antique, and guaranteed the Hermetica a far-flung readership, even among Christians. The focus and conclusion of this study is an assault on the problem of the social milieu of Hermetism.