The UCL Lahun Papyri
Title | The UCL Lahun Papyri PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Collier |
Publisher | British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
With a chapter by Annette Imhausen and Jim Ritter
The UCL Lahun Papyri
Title | The UCL Lahun Papyri PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Collier |
Publisher | British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains pictures related to accompanying text.
The UCL Lahun Papyri
Title | The UCL Lahun Papyri PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Collier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Egyptian language |
ISBN |
The University College London Lahun (Middle Kingdom) papyri constitute one of the most remarkable harvests of papyri of any age. This volume communicates the content of the surviving letters and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in an accessible and affordable format.
UCL Lahun Papyri
Title | UCL Lahun Papyri PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Collier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Egypt |
ISBN | 9781841715728 |
The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Shaw |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1300 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192596985 |
The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its theoretical, methodological, and historical contexts, indicating how the subject has evolved and discussing its distinctive contemporary problems, issues, and potential. Transcending conventional boundaries between archaeological and ancient textual analysis, the volume brings together 63 chapters that range widely across archaeological, philological, and cultural sub-disciplines, highlighting the extent to which Egyptology as a subject has diversified and stressing the need for it to seek multidisciplinary methods and broader collaborations if it is to remain contemporary and relevant. Organized into ten parts, it offers a comprehensive synthesis of the various sub-topics and specializations that make up the field as a whole, from the historical and geographical perspectives that have influenced its development and current characteristics, to aspects of museology and conservation, and from materials and technology - as evidenced in domestic architecture and religious and funerary items - to textual and iconographic approaches to Egyptian culture. Authoritative yet accessible, it serves not only as an invaluable reference work for scholars and students working within the discipline, but also as a gateway into Egyptology for classicists, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists.
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East
Title | The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Radner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 977 |
Release | 2022-05-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0190687592 |
This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a diverse, international team of leading scholars whose expertise brings to life the people, places, and times of the remote past, the volumes in this series focus firmly on the political and social histories of the states and communities of the ancient Near East. Individual chapters present the key textual and material sources underpinning the historical reconstruction, paying particular attention to the most recent archaeological finds and their impact on our historical understanding of the periods surveyed. The second volume covers broadly the first half of the second millennium BC or in archaeological terms, the Middle Bronze Age. Eleven chapters present the history of the Near East, beginning with the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom Egypt and the Mesopotamian kingdoms of Ur (Third Dynasty), Isin and Larsa. The complex mosaic of competing states that arose between the Eastern Mediterranean, the Anatolian highlands and the Zagros mountains of Iran are all treated, culminating in an examination of the kingdom of Babylon founded by Hammurabi and maintained by his successors. Beyond the narrative history of each region considered, the volume treats a wide range of critical topics, including the absolute chronology; state formation and disintegration; the role of kingship, cult practice and material culture in the creation and maintenance of social hierarchies; and long-distance trade-both terrestrial and maritime-as a vital factor in the creation of social, political and economic networks that bridged deserts, oceans, and mountain ranges, binding together the extraordinarily diverse peoples and polities of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, and Central Asia.
Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Title | Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia PDF eBook |
Author | Gojko Barjamovic |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2016-04-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 8763543729 |
The term ‘canonicity’ implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. Scribes and benefactors ‘create’ canon in as much as they teach, analyze, preserve, prom¬ulgate and change ‘canonical’ texts according to prevailing norms. From early on, texts from the written traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were accumulated, codified, and to some extent canonized, as various collections developed mainly in the environment of the temple and the palace. These written traditions represent sets of formal and informal cultures that all speak in their own ways of canonicity, normativity, and other forms of cultural expertise. Some forms of literature were used not only in scholarly contexts, but also in political ones, and they served purposes of identity formation. This volume addresses the interrelations between various forms of ‘canon’ and identity formation in different time periods, genres, regions, and contexts, as well as the application of contemporary conceptions of ‘canon’ to ancient texts.