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Illuminating Osiris

Author : Richard Jasnow
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1937040755
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating Osiris written by Richard Jasnow and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.

Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Author : Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178491438X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt written by Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing.

Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt

Author : Carolyn Graves-Brown
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786832895
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt written by Carolyn Graves-Brown and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt –daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’ – and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits are generally defined in Egyptology as creatures not of this world, which do not have their own cult centre, and both groups are frequently listed together in protective spells. This volume explores the general nature of daemons and spirits in ancient Egypt and discusses a selection in more detail: it uses artefacts from Wales’s important collection of Egyptian objects at the Egypt Centre at Swansea University, in which are to be found a dwarf daemon with sticking out tongue; several guardian daemons of the Otherworld; creatures who are part snake and part feline; spirits of deceased humans; and a Greek satyr Silenus, companion to the wine god Dionysus.

Archaeology of the Night

Author : Nancy Gonlin
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326787
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of the Night written by Nancy Gonlin and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient peoples experience, view, and portray the night? What was it like to live in the past when total nocturnal darkness was the norm? Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant models of daily ancient life. A diverse team of experienced scholars uses a variety of methods and resources to reconstruct how ancient peoples navigated the night and what their associated daily—and nightly—practices were. This collection challenges modern ideas and misconceptions regarding the night and what darkness and night symbolized in the ancient world, and it highlights the inherent research bias in favor of “daytime” archaeology. Numerous case studies from around the world (including Oman, Mesoamerica, Scandinavia, Rome, Great Zimbabwe, Indus Valley, Peru, and Cahokia) illuminate subversive, social, ritual, domestic, and work activities, such as witchcraft, ceremonies, feasting, sleeping, nocturnal agriculture, and much more. Were there artifacts particularly associated with the night? Authors investigate individuals and groups (both real and mythological) who share a special connection to nighttime life. Reconsidering the archaeological record, Archaeology of the Night views sites, artifacts, features, and cultures from a unique perspective. This book is relevant to anthropologists and archaeologists and also to scholars of human geography, history, astronomy, sensory studies, human biology, folklore, and mythology. Contributors: Susan Alt, Anthony F. Aveni, Jane Eva Baxter, Shadreck Chirikure, Minette Church, Jeremy D. Coltman, Margaret Conkey, Tom Dillehay, Christine C. Dixon, Zenobie Garrett, Nancy Gonlin, Kathryn Kamp, Erin Halstad McGuire, Abigail Joy Moffett, Jerry D. Moore, Smiti Nathan, April Nowell, Scott C. Smith, Glenn R. Storey, Meghan Strong, Cynthia Van Gilder, Alexei Vranich, John C. Whittaker, Rita Wright

The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos

Author : Ogden Goelet
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 194848899X
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos written by Ogden Goelet and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind, his temple at Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one of his most elegant, with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh, the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects, for example, the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt-and particularly at Abydos-in the aftermath of the Amarna period. Building on the comprehensive photographic and epigraphic documentation of the temple presented in The Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos volumes 1 (Wall Scenes) and 2 (Pillars, Niches, and Miscellanea), volume 3 (Architectural and Inscriptional Features) offers a detailed analysis of the overall architectural layout and decorative program of the temple and its symbolism. This discussion approaches the religious history of the site through its archaeology, its inscriptions-both planned and secondary (graffiti)-and its situation in the complex religious landscape of Abydos. Of particular interest are the temple's role as a staging point for the great Osiris Festival and its procession, among the most important of all ritual events in the Egyptian religious calendar during the Ramesside period; the promotion of an active, unbound form of Osiris; and the evidence for important cult activities that took place on the rooftop of the temple, the presence of which is documented today by the staircase that accessed it from Court B.

Victorian Alchemy

Author : Eleanor Dobson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787358488
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Alchemy written by Eleanor Dobson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as ‘alchemical’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science. Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day.

Egypt's Place in Universal History: The epilogue, or, problems and key

Author : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History: The epilogue, or, problems and key written by Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History: an Historical Investigation in Five Books Christian C. J. Bunsen written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Egypt's Place in Universal History

Author : C. C. J. Baron Bunsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752521287
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History written by C. C. J. Baron Bunsen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Egypt's Place in Universal History

Author : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Place in Universal History written by Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference

Author : Colin A. Hope
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253799
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference written by Colin A. Hope and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the Oasis Papers series marks the 40th anniversary of archaeological fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypts Western Desert under the leadership of Anthony J. Mills and presents a synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of the oasis and its interconnections with surrounding regions, especially the Nile Valley. The papers are by distinguished authorities in the field and postgraduate students who specialise in different aspects of Dakhleh and presents an almost complete survey of the archaeology of Dakhleh including much unpublished, original material. It will be one of the few to document a specific part of modern Egypt in such detail and thus should have a broad and lasting appeal. The content of some of the papers is unlikely to be published in any other form elsewhere. Dakhleh is possibly the most intensively examined wider geographic region within Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian Biographies

Author : Elizabeth Frood
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1948488302
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Biographies written by Elizabeth Frood and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience.

The Tomb of Amenemhēt (no. 82)

Author : Nina Macpherson Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomb of Amenemhēt (no. 82) written by Nina Macpherson Davies and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theban Tombs Series

Author : Egypt Exploration Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Theban Tombs Series written by Egypt Exploration Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Craft of a Good Scribe

Author : Steve Vinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004353100
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Craft of a Good Scribe written by Steve Vinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. "First Setne" is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional compositions from any period of ancient Egypt. The tale, which is by turns lurid, tragic and ultimately comic, deals with Setne's theft of a magic book written by the god Thoth himself, and subsequently Setne's punishment through a hallucinatory encounter with the ghostly femme fatale Tabubue. Vinson provides a new textual edition and commentary, and explores the tale's cultural background, its modern reception, and approaches to its interpretation as a work of literature.

The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books

Author : John Coleman Darnell
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884140458
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books written by John Coleman Darnell and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books The ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books, important compositions that decorated the New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, present humanity's oldest surviving attempts to provide a scientific map of the unseen realms beyond the visible cosmos and contain imagery and annotations that represent ancient Egyptian speculation (essentially philosophical and theological) about the events of the solar journey through the twelve hours of the night. The Netherworld Books describe one of the central mysteries of Egyptian religious belief—the union of the solar god Re with the underworldly god Osiris—and provide information on aspects of Egyptian theology and cosmography not present in the now more widely read Book of the Dead. Numerous illustrations provide overview images and individual scenes from each Netherworld Book, emphasizing the unity of text and image within the compositions. The major texts translated include the Book of Adoring Re in the West (the Litany of Re), the Book of the Hidden Chamber (Amduat), the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns, the Books of the Creation of the Solar Disk, and the Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity. Features: Accessible presentations of the main concepts of the Netherworld Books and the chief features of each text Notes and commentary address major theological themes within the texts as well as lexicographic and/or grammatical issues An overview of later uses of these compositions during the first millennium BCE

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology

Author : Ian Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199271879
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology written by Ian Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Authoritative yet accessible, and covering a wide range of topics, it is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and general readers alike.