Small damage to front wrap (sticker damage? ). Rubbing to wraps. Else VG. ; Catalogue of the Coptic collection of the Icon Museum in Recklinghausen, Germany; 78 pages View More...
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 pa... View More...
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... View More...
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 ... View More...
Very Light foxing to top of textblock. Tiny red pen mark to rear endpaper (arrow). Minor shelfwear. ; Looks at the history and administration of the provinces of the Ptolemaic Empire outside Egypt including: Cyrenaica, Cyprus, Phoenicia, Palestine, Coele-Syria, and various parts of Asia Minor and the Greek Islands also looks at Coinage. ; Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition IV; 301 pages View More...
Gift inscription on front pastedown, else unmarked. DJ has light soiling and shelfwear. ; 192pp, profusely illustrated. ; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; 192 pages View More...
Lower corners bumped. Minor shelfwear . ; Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 BC, before it was buried in a temple complex. Its adventures were not over: after almost two millennia, the head was excavated by Auguste Mariette, a founding figure in French archaeology. Sent to France as part of a collection assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon... View More...
First few pages and front wrap are very creased. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Some underlining and notes in pen to a few pages. Reading copy only. ; 294 pages View More...
Boards have come away from stapled textblock-- easily repaired if necessary. Signed by A. J. Arkell on inner cover of boards. Staples are rusted. Light pencil notes on a few pages. ; Sudan Historical Studies Note No. 1; 31 pages; Signed by One Author View More...
Bookshop stamps of E. J. Brill on titlepage and to textblock. Very light foxing to textblock and rubbing to upper corner of front board. Minor bump to heel of spine. ; Vol. 6; 260 pages; This volume lists in alphabetical order of papyri, corrections of readings and datings of published documents, as well as supplementary information, as they have appeared in recent literature. The book also offers new readings and rejected readings of Greek words. View More...
Small scratch to front board (red scuff mark) and very minor shelfwear. ; Xvi, 223pp, 8pls. Nos. 3151-3208 ; Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 62; Vol. 44; 223 pages View More...
Very minor shelwfear to book. DJ has 1 tiny tear. ; 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 Ho... View More...
The leading egyptologist claims to have solved the riddle of the young pharaoh's death. With the assistance of medical-forensic and Egyptological specialists, he reconstructs Tutankhamen's last days and turns his suspicious gaze on Aye, the commoner and Chief Adviser who succeeded him. 'History as real life adventure' - Publishing News. ; 264 pages View More...
Spine is sunned. Some scuffing and small scratches to front wrap. Very light foxing to textblock. ; Unchanged reprint of 1899 edition. Twenty illustrations. ; 234 pages View More...
Ex-library copies with institution stamps to inner covers. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). A few small tears to cloth. Fraying to spine ends. Spines have removed call numbers. Circulation pockets removed. Some darkening to boards. ; Vol. 1: (1904) 226 pp ; Vol. 2: (1904) 201 pp; Vol.3: (1904) 249 pp; Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Vol. XVII, XVIII, XIX; Vol. 1/3/2023; 676 pages View More...
Decorative cloth binding is rubbed and worn at extremities, inner hinges strained and cracked, contents are otherwise VG, sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; 330 pages View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Top corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and extremities. ; A scarce and important work on the problems of stone construction in Ancient Egypt. ; 242 pages View More...
DJ shows some wear at extremities, front board has cup ring - text is clean and unmarked. Overall in VERY GOOD+ condition; To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with the ancient Egyptians) , others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in peat bogs. By examining these preserved humans, we can get profound insights into the lives, health, culture and deaths... View More...
Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost two thousand years ago. This multidisciplinary study of his mummy, which is in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection and on view at the Getty Villa, highlights the funerary practices and religious beliefs of his world. Through state-of-the-art technology Getty conservators, working with professionals from various other disciplines, sought to determine if the portrait over the mummy's face actually depicted the mummified remains, if precious jewels or amulets were present within the wrappings,... View More...
Ex-library copy with multiple library stamps scattered in text & call numbers to spine. Book has been rebound in blue buckram. Foxing to prelims. ; Text is in Ancient Greek and English Translation with additional text in Latin. ; 174 pages View More...
Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine, this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, Cotterell argues that, much like the later introduction of the stirrup, chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines, while Roman chariots were more ceremonial, and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chines... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. A few tears in wraps with small piece of base of spine torn off (1 cm) ; check-out slip taped to upper margin of last plate, else VG. ; 142pp + 68pls. ; 142 pages View More...
DJ is price-clipped. One small closed tear to DJ at base of spine (1cm). Light edgewear to DJ. Very light shelfwear to book else Fine ; The Making of the Past; 404 pages; The combination of history and archaeology provides an excellent introduction to Egypt and Egyptology. View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is price-clipped and protected in library protective sleeve which has been taped to book leaving tape stains on inner covers. Mark on text-block in red felt marker. ; Greek Exclusiveness & the Political Ideals of Alexander the Great; The Hellenistic Age; The Earliest Greek Contact with Egypt; Alexander in Egypt; The Papyri & their Value; The Hellenization of Egypt; Alexandria; The Earliest Hebrew Contact with Egypt; The Jews in Egypt in later Times; The Question of Jewish Citizenship at Alexandria; The Greek Contact with th... View More...
Slight soiling. Some smudges on covers, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 1 corner lightly bumped. ; Discusses the market and economic conditions from the Neolithic period to Greece and finally to the Roman Republic and Empire. ; 288 pages View More...
Hard bump to bottom corner of book. Creasing to wraps. Light rubbing. ; Many colour and black and white illustrations. ; 283 pages; Text in French. Catalog of an exhibit at the Petit Palais Paris, 1964 View More...
Institution stamp to ffep (Woodbury Library, Dept of Classics, University of Toronto) - no other markings. Water stain to lower half of spine and edge of wraps. Browning to wraps. ; Clio. Introduction Aux Études Historiques 1; 361 pages View More...
Minor discoloration to DJ spine with light scuffing to DJ. ; Study of the origins and objectives of Greek historiography including the Greek accounts of Eastern history-- history of Egypt, Lydia, the Fertile Crescent, and Persia, from earliest times to the outbreak of the Persian wars. Focusing his study on Herodotus, the author challenges the widely held thesis that historiography was an offshoot of the Greeks' interest in ethnography. ; Publications of the Center for Hellenic Studies; 220 pages View More...
Institution stamp to ffep (Woodbury Library, Dept of Classics, University of Toronto) - no other markings. Water stain to lower half of spine and edge of wraps. Light pencilling to a few pages. ; Clio. Introduction Aux Études Historiques 1; 641 pages View More...
Book has minor rubbing to extremities. ; Aramaic Documents published here for the first time came from an unknown site in Egypt and consist of 13 or 14 more or less complete letters and the fragments of others from the Archives of Arsham, satrap of Egypt in the time of Darius II, and may be dated c. 410 B. C. They deal with the administrative problems confronting the satrap's subordinate officers, and with those arising from the relations of these officers with the native population, especially in the matter of their fiefs; one is concerned with the making of an equestrian statue for the write... View More...
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Bumping to back top corner. 2 Stamps to textblock have been deleted with black marker. Text is clean of marks. ; Excavated by the late George Andrew Reisner. Fold-out map of the Merloe South and Merloe West Cemeteries tucked into pocket inside back cover. ; Vol. 5; 457 pages View More...
Corners bumped. Light bump to head of spine. ; 6pp + 2pp of figures, + 103pls.; University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications Volume XXVI; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Overseas shipping may be more. View More...
