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Ashton, Sally-Ann PETRIE'S PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN MEMPHIS
Institute of Archaeology, University College London 2003 0905853407 / 9780905853406 Softcover Very Good
Pencil marginalia to some pages. Includes cd in back sleeve. Minor creasing to wraps and base of spine. ; Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. For too long, its importance during this critical period has been wrongly eclipsed by the younger city of Alexandria. This book challenges such assumptions by taking a closer look at Memphis through the lens of the rich material excavated there by Flinders Petrie over a century ago, and exhibited in University College London’s Petrie Museum. These finds bring alive the diversity of the city’s inhabitants and raise questions, still relevant today, about the representations and realities of ethnic groups. This book presents the excavation background to the finds, their manufacturing processes and their cultural implications. It is accompanied by a CD ROM that illustrates this informative and neglected material. ; UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications; 120 pages
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Assmann, Jan HERRSCHAFT UND HEIL Politische Theologie in Altägypten, Israel Und Europa
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2000 3446198660 / 9783446198661 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear else fine. ; In German. Der renommierte Ägyptologe Jan Assmann über die politische oder theoretische Legitimation von Herrschaft. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen Ägyptens und Israels zeigen, fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religiösen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit, Macht, Solidarität, Schuld, Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt, bevor sie ins Religiöse und Theologische transformiert wurden. ; 1.38 x 9.02 x 5.79 Inches; 338 pages
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Bagnall, Roger S. EGYPT IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Princeton Univ Pr 1993 0691069867 / 9780691069869 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 392 pages; This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century, Roger Bagnall draws his evidence mainly from documentary and archaeological sources, including the papyri that have been published over the last thirty years. This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century, Roger Bagnall draws his evidence mainly from documentary and archaeological sources, including the papyri that have been published over the last thirty years.
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Bagnall, Roger S. LATER ROMAN EGYPT Society, Religion, Economy and Administration
Variorum 2003 0860788997 / 9780860788997 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
A couple of corners very slightly bumped. ; Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt. In these studies some of the main themes of Roger Bagnall's work are visible, in particular attempts to explore the possibilities for quantifying not only questions like the burden of taxation or the distribution of land-ownership, but more tantalizing and controversial matters like the rate at which the population of Egypt was Christianized. ; Variorum Collected Studies Series, 758; 324 pages
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Beegle, Dewey M. MOSES, THE SERVANT OF YAHWEH
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1972 080283406X / 9780802834065 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book has very light shelfwear. DJ spine a bit sunned with a couple of small chips to head of spine. ; 368pp. ; 368 pages
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Bierbrier, Morris THE TOMB-BUILDERS OF THE PHARAOHS
Charles Scribner's Sons 1985 0684182297 / 9780684182292 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Very Minor shelfwear. DJ in mylar. ; 160 pages; Looks at the daily life of the workmen who built the tombs gathering information from excavations at Deir el-Medina.
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Bolman, Elizabeth S. (Ed. ) MONASTIC VISIONS Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony At the Red Sea
American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. / Yale University Press 2002 0300092245 / 9780300092240 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Patrick Godeau
Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; An ancient church in the Coptic Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea contains a unique cycle of 13th-century wall paintings. They constitute by far the most complete and best-preserved iconographic programme of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, these compelling images have recently undergone conservation. This volume reproduces the cleaned paintings. It also describes and analyzes the amalgam of Coptic, Byzantine and Arab styles represented, and the social world of the artists that created the images. This book celebrates a unique program of conservation work conducted by the American Research Centre in Egypt. Essays by Bolman, Tim Vivian, Michael Jones, William Lyster, Adriano Luzi & Luigi De Cesaris, Gawdat Gabra, Sidney H. Griffith, Father Maximous El-Anthony, Elizabeth E. Oram, and Birger A. Pearson. ; Photographs; 342 pages
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Bremmer, Jan N. & Andrew Erskine (Eds. ) THE GODS OF ANCIENT GREECE Identities and Transformations
Edinburgh University Press 2010 0748637982 / 9780748637980 Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
Faint foxing to top of textblock else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Edinburgh Leventis Studies 5; 448 pages; The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern scholarship. This book brings together a team of international scholars with the aim of remedying this situation and generating new approaches to the nature and development of the Greek gods in the period from Homer until Late Antiquity. The book looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature of a divinity. How do the Greek gods function in a polytheistic pantheon and what is their connection to the heroes? What is the influence of philosophy? What does archaeology tell us about the gods? In what way do the gods in Late Antiquity differ from those in classical Greece? This book presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity.
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