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Nelson, Harold Hayden & Uvo Hölscher (Holscher) WORK IN WESTERN THEBES, 1931-33
The University of Chicago Press 1934 Softcover Very Good+
Overall light rubbing to covers, otherwise excellent condition. ; Looks at the work done at Medinet Habu including the Calendar of Feasts and Offerings and Excavations. Texts are from the Ramesses III period. ; The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Communications; Vol. 18; 118 pages
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Pomeroy, Sarah B. WOMEN IN HELLENISTIC EGYPT From Alexander to Cleopatra
Schocken Books 1984 0805239111 / 9780805239119 Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Minor shelfwear to book. DJ spine is sunned. DJ has some tears and chipping and some colour loss. ; After its conquest in 331 B. C. , Egypt became the center of the Hellenistic world, attracting men and women from other parts of the Mediterranian area. In this cosmopolitan and moblie society, Greek women of the ruling class had unprecedented opportunities and were able to employ some legal freedoms enjoyed by their Egyptian counterparts. Using evidence from a wide variety of sources including literature, papyri, inscriptions, coins, and terra-cotta figurines, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoe II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate. ; 241 pages
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Reid, Donald Malcolm WHOSE PHARAOHS? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
University of California Press 2002 0520221974 / 9780520221970 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism. Traditionally, histories of Egyptian archaeology have celebrated Western discoverers such as Champollion, Mariette, Maspero, and Petrie, while slighting Rifaa al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Kamal, and other Egyptians. This exceptionally well-illustrated and well-researched book writes Egyptians into the history of archaeology and museums in their own country and shows how changing perceptions of the past helped shape ideas of modern national identity. Drawing from rich archival sources in Egypt, the United Kingdom, and France, and from little-known Arabic publications, Reid discusses previously neglected topics in both scholarly Egyptology and the popular "Egyptomania" displayed in world's fairs and Orientalist painting and photography. He also examines the link between archaeology and the rise of the modern tourist industry. This richly detailed narrative discusses not only Western and Egyptian perceptions of pharaonic history and archaeology but also perceptions of Egypt's Greco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic eras. Throughout this book, Reid demonstrates how the emergence of archaeology affected the interests and self-perceptions of modern Egyptians. In addition to uncovering a wealth of significant new material on the history of archaeology and museums in Egypt, Reid provides a fascinating window on questions of cultural heritage--how it is perceived, constructed, claimed, and contested. ; 424 pages
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Reisner, George Andrew THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB DOWN TO THE ACCESSION OF CHEOPS
Harvard University Press / Oxford University Press 1936 Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Stamp deletions on ffep, back inner cover and title-page with black marker. Rubbing to extremities. Colour loss along spine from previous removed call numbers (there are other call numbers on spine). Text is clean. ; With 192 illustrations of the tomb plans and types. The two maps show the Royal Cemeteries of the Abydos and the Saqqara Cemetery. This book was the first volume in Reisner's planned series on the Giza Necropolis. ; 428 pages
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Rizkana, Ibrahim & Jürgen Seeher MAADI II The Lithic Industries of the Predynastic Settlement.
1988 3805309805 / 9783805309806 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Corners slightly bumped. Minor shelfwear. ; Excavations at the Late Predynastic site, just south of modern Cairo. Excavations at the Predynastic Site of Maadi and its Cemeteries. Conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on Behalf of the Department of Gegraphy, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University 1930-53.; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 115 pages; Published also by Mainz am Rhein. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo.
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Rothenberg, Beno Et Al RESEARCHES IN THE ARABAH, 1959-84, VOLUME I: THE EGYPTIAN MINING TEMPLE AT TIMNA
London Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies 1988 0906183022 / 9780906183021 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Top corners lightly bumped, else Fine. With the bookplate of George Rapp, Jr. , else unmarked. ; Viii, 307pp, illustrated, 155pls, + 92pp of text-figures. ; Metal in History: Two; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 307 pages
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Samuel, Alan E. THE SHIFTING SANDS OF HISTORY Interpretations of Ptolemaic Egypt
University Press of America 1989 0819173975 / 9780819173973 Softcover Very Good
Spine ends are chipped. Light wear otherwise. ; Publication of the Association of Ancient Historians 2; 85 pages; Contents: Modern Views of the period after Alexander; Successors of Alexander; Two Solitudes; Macedonian Administration of Egypt; Ideology of Ptolemaic Monarchy; Ptolemaic Egypt and Historical Interpretation.
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Sasson, Jack M. (Ed. ) THE TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
E. J. Brill 1977 9004048626 / 9789004048621 Softcover Very Good+
Minor shelfwear. Light wear to upper corner of wrap. Very light foxing to textblock. ; Contents: David Lorton: the treatment of criminals in Ancient Egypt through the New Kingdom; Johannes Renger: Wrongdoing and its Sanctions. On "criminal" and "civil" law in the Old Babylonian Period; Tikva Simone Frymer: The Nungal-hymn and the Ekur-prison; Jack M. Sasson: Treatment of criminals at Mari. A Survey; Kaspar Riemschneider: Prison and Punishment in Early Anatolia. ; 126 pages
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Sauzeau, Pierre & Thierry Van Compernolle (Eds. ) LES ARMES DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ. DE LA TECHNIQUE À L’IMAGINAIRE Actes Du Colloque De SEMA, Montpellier 20 Et 22 Mars 2003
CERCAM, Publications De L’université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III 2007 2842697995 / 9782842697990 Softcover Near Fine
Crease to back wrap else Fine. ; Outil de chasse ou de guerre, de violence et de mort, l’arme devient un objet de culture quand les peuples anciens créent des armes solides ou complexes, l’art de s’en servir et les règles de leur usage ; des armes de prestige ; des armes signes identitaires, qui structurent la société des guerriers, autour desquelles s’articule la citoyenneté, qui participent de la légitimation du pouvoir, de l’acte libérateur du tyrannicide. Des armes où se reflètent le cosmos et le monde des dieux — armes réelles ou armes d’images et de poésie. À défaut d’une exhaustivité encyclopédique, on pourra voir s’esquisser dans cet ouvrage, où se retrouvent linguistes, littéraires, historiens, historiens de l’art, tous spécialistes des civilisations antiques, quelques grandes lignes d’une histoire totale des armes anciennes, histoire fondamentale pour concevoir la guerre dans l’Antiquité, mais qui déborde de toutes parts l’histoire proprement militaire. ; 692 pages
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Solmsen, Friedrich ISIS AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
Harvard University Press 1979 0674467752 / 9780674467750 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book has minor shelfwear. Old price sticker residue on ffep else unmarked. Dustjacket is a bit tatty with chipping and some small tears. ; Martin Classical Lectures 25; 157 pages
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Southern, Pat CLEOPATRA
Tempus Publishing 1999 0752414356 / 9780752414355 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
DJ in mylar; Cleopatra was intimately involved in the critical years that saw the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire. How this transition appeared to the Queen of Egypt - and the part she played in it - is the subject of Pat Southern's engrossing new biography. Descended from the first Ptolemy, one of the companions of Alexander the Great, Cleopatra was the last in a long line of Macedonian rulers of Egypt. It was Julius Caesar's involvement in an Alexandrian civil war that led to her being set up as Queen of Egypt. She also had an affair with Caesar, by whom she produced a son Ptolemy Caesar, better known as Caesarion. A good linguist, intelligent and shrewd, she soon proved herself an able administrator - and ruthless when necessary. For two years she was a guest of Caesar's in Rome, but on his assassination she returned to Alexandria - where in turn Mark Antony was to become her geust and lover. Over the years of their acquaintance they produced three children. However, Roman sensibilities were greatly disturbed by the Donations of Alexandria whereby Antony distributed vast areas of the east to Cleopatra and their children, and their behavior allowed Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) to brand the Egyptian Queen as the arch enemy, worse than Hannibal, nearer than the Parthians and powerful because she had access to Antony's legions. ; 160 pages
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Springborg, Patricia ROYAL PERSONS Patriarchal Monarchy and the Feminine Principle
Unwin Hyman 1990 0044453760 / 9780044453765 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Signed by Author
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear. ; Inscription on ffep by author. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 342 pages; It is the thesis of this book that the birth of the state, usually associated with the emergence of the Greek "polis", can in fact be traced in the foundation myths and practices of the ancient Egyptian monarchy to which the feminine principle is crucial. The central significance of women is demonstrated through exploration of Egyptian, Hittite, Babylonian and other myths, in which we have an account of the creation as a birth struggle. Creation ends with the enthronement of kings and, and although from the beginning there is no doubt that the first monarchies were patriarchal, the processes of empowerment were female. The powers of Hathor and Tiamat, Ishtar and Anath reside in their reproductive capacities, as powers of creativity of which the social power of kings is merely imitative. The form in which the institutional longevity of political office was first expressed was that of "twinning". This notion that the king had two bodies - one his mortal body and one his immortal "other" - can be seen in the concept of Greek "daimon", in the "genius" of the Roman Emperor and the "mystical body" of European Kings. It has its prototype in the pharaoh and his "ka". The "ka" as an imperishable "double" designated the corporate life of all social collectivities in ancient Egypt, the basis perhaps for the "corporation" and its institutional "representative" in Roman Law and early modern political theory. It seems, that the ancient monarchy may have represented a real altenative to the hegemonic male warrior "polis" to which we owe so many of our political institutions, and legitimating myths. The modern welfare state itself, which grew up under the wings of Kings, owes more to the conception of divine bounty dispensed through beneficent monarchs than to the assertive individualism of classical republicanism. ; Signed by Author
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Säve-Söderbergh / Save-Soderbergh, Torgny PHARAOHS AND MORTALS
Robert Hale Limited 1963 Hardcover Very Good- in Good dust jacket
Shelfwear and general wear with pieces missing from top corners and top of dustjacket. Inner cover has addresses and names of former owners in pen and stamp of another owner. ; Translated from the Swedish by Richard E. Oldenburg. Covers a variety of subjects from the pyramid of about 3000 years B. C. To the first monastc period of the Coptic church. Many photographs of ancient Egyptian art and structure. ; 190 pages
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Thompson, Dorothy J. MEMPHIS UNDER THE PTOLEMIES
Princeton University Press 1989 0691035938 / 9780691035932 Hardcover Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers to DJ and traces of removed circulation pastedown. A few cellotape stains to inner covers else Book is VG. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 376 pages; The city of Memphis on the Nile, which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great, became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. Drawing on archaeological findings and on an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. Memphis under the Ptolemies will interest students of intercultural relations and will be essential reading for Egyptologists, papyrologists, and historians of the Hellenistic world, including those concerned with religion. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.
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Tyldesley, Joyce CLEOPATRA Last Queen of Egypt
NY Basic Books 2008 0465009409 / 9780465009404 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; 290pp, illustrated. The Romans regarded her as " 'fatale monstrum' "-a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really? We almost feel that we know Cleopatra, but our distorted image of a self-destructive beauty does no justice to Cleopatra's true genius. In 'Cleopatra', Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers an unexpectedly vivid portrait of a skillful Egyptian ruler. Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Egypt's Roman conquerors, Cleopatra is a magnificent biography of a most extraordinary queen. ; 290 pages
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Vandenberg, Philipp THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
J. B. Lippincott 1975 0397010354 / 9780397010356 Hardcover Very Good- with no dust jacket
Spine Ends are bumped and rubbed. Front cover has a crease across the board. Corner tips are rubbed. ; "Did the ancient Egyptians deliberately turn their pharaohs' rock-bound tombs into death traps for the unwary-4,000 years later?" Translated by Thomas Weyr. ; 221 pages
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Vercoutter, Jean LES OBJETS ÉGYPTIENS ET ÉGYPTISANTS DU MOBILIER FUNÉRAIRE CARTHAGINOIS
Paul Geuthner 1945 Softcover Good+
Minor rippling to back plates. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Minor browning to pages and wraps. Small piece of back upper corner missing. Minor chipping to head and heel of spine. Tears along edges of base and head of spine cover but book is still solid and intact. Pages uncut. ; Ouvrage publie avec le concours de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Fondation de Clercq) ; Bibliothèque Archéologique Et Historique. Tome XL; 97pp, 37 figures, 936 images on 29 plates. Looks at Egyptian objects found during excavations of Carthage.
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Wells, Evelyn NEFERTITI
NY Doubleday & Company 1964 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Small white smudge to front board. Pages tanned. Corners a little bumped. DJ has minor chipping and creasing. DJ is a bit browned. ; 300pp, illustrated.; 300 pages
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Wevers, John William ESSAYS ON THE ANCIENT SEMITIC WORLD
University of Toronto Press 1970 0802016030 / 9780802016034 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Light soiling to DJ. Foxing to top of text block. ; Seven essays on the language and culture of the ancient Semitic world. Two papers deal with Akkadian, five with Hebrew and one with Egyptian. ; Toronto Semitic texts and studies; 112 pages
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Witt, R. E. ISIS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
Cornell University Press 1971 0801406331 / 9780801406331 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Slight Edgewear to boards. Publisher's ink stamp on top edge. ; Signed by Robert Wilken (classicist). ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 9 x 1.5 x 6 Inches; 336 pages; Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B. C. And extended at least until the fifth century A. D. Throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been found in places as far apart as Afghanistan and Portugal, the Black Sea and northern England. The first study to document the extent and complexity of the cult's influence on Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture.
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Witt, R. E. ISIS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
Cornell University Press 1971 0801406331 / 9780801406331 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Presentation label to front paste-down endpaper else NF in DJ. Light edgewear to top of DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 9 x 1.5 x 6 Inches; 336 pages; Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B. C. And extended at least until the fifth century A. D. Throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been found in places as far apart as Afghanistan and Portugal, the Black Sea and northern England. The first study to document the extent and complexity of the cult's influence on Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture.
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