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Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Monographic Series written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harco Willems
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789068317695
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Coffin of Heqata written by Harco Willems and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coffin published in this book represents a type that had some popularity in southern Upper Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, but which, despite its extraordinary decoration had not attracted attention so far. The most striking feature of the decoration is that the object friezes - the pictorial rendering of ritual implements usually found on coffin interiors of the period - also include complete ritual scenes, some of which are attested only here. Apart from this, the decoration includes an extensive selection of the religious texts know as the Coffin Texts. The author first studies the archaeological context and dating of the coffin and attempts a reconstruction of the construction procedures from his technical description of the monument. The detailed account of the decoration in the rest of the book interprets the ritual iconography and offers fresh translations and interpretations of the Coffin Texts. A methodological innovation is that he regards the scenes and texts not as individual decoration elements, but as components of an integral composition. The background of this composition is argued to be a view of life in the hereafter in which the deceased is involved in an unending cycle of ritual action which reflects the funerary rituals that were actually performed on earth. On the one hand, these netherworldly rituals aim at bringing the deceased to new life by mummification, on the other the newly regenerated deceased partakes in embalming rituals for gods representing his dead father (Osiris or Atum). These gods, in their turn, effectuate the deceased's regeneration. The entire process results in a cycle of resuscitation in which the afterlife of the deceased and of the 'father gods' are interdependent. The sociological bias of this interpretation, with its emphasis on kinship relations, differs significantly from earlier attempts to explain Egyptian funerary religion.
Author : Peter T. Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195079930
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The World's Writing Systems written by Peter T. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.
Author : Johns Hopkins University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Circular written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
Author : Johns Hopkins University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Johns Hopkins University Circulars written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Bibliography of Paul Haupt written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johns Hopkins University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Preliminary Bibliography of Paul Haupt written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Reinhold Haellquist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136100822
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Asian Trade Routes written by Karl Reinhold Haellquist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. These essays deal with the Western penetration of Asia from the earliest times to the recent past in the quest for trade, and by means of opening up routes and communications to bridge East and West, thereby influencing societies, economies and cultures. The relevant sections cover West Asia, Central Asia and Afghanistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Author : Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād
Publisher : Alhoda UK
ISBN 13 : 9781592670680
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Kitab Al-qabasat written by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād and published by Alhoda UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad 'Alawi's Sharoh Kitaab al-Qabasaat."
Author : Harold Schiffman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217657
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors written by Harold Schiffman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book was co-edited by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan since 2001 have left the area in a state of flux. This volume gives a better picture about what is official and explicit, what is not official but implicit or general practice, and what the likely future developments might be. It is very clear that multilingualism, whether it involves Persian, Russian or English in addition to other languages, not only has long been a part of the scene, but will probably continue to be so.
Author : Ahmad, Maqbul
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231038303
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The different aspects of islamic culture written by Ahmad, Maqbul and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into Islamic science and technology is still in is early stages, but there is now sufficient material available for a preliminary study. Volume IV is intended to fill a gap which deserves a major multi-volume work. Part I is a review of the history of science in Islam. It deals with the contribution of Islamic civilization to mathematics, astronomy, and physics, which have long been acknowledged, but also advances made by Muslim scientitsts in the fields of cosmology, geology and mineralogy, zoology, veterinary science and botany.
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Publisher : Association of Research Libr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter written by and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1978 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hongqi Li
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622014657
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (146 download)
Download or read book China and Europe written by Hongqi Li and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mehrdad Izady
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135844909
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Kurds written by Mehrdad Izady and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Johns Hopkins University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Circulars written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio Loprieno
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004676716
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Literature written by Antonio Loprieno and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BCE) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300 BCE-200 CE). This book, the result of an international co-operation among more than twenty scholars, is divided into sections devoted to the definition of literary discourse in Ancient Egypt; the history and genres of these texts, their linguistic and stylistic features; and the image of Ancient Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions of the Mediterranean world - Greek, Coptic, Arabic. With over thirty chapters, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of current research in one of the methodologically most advanced fields of Egyptology.
