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Golden House Publications EGYPTOLOGY series The Question of Evil in Ancient Egyptby Mpay Kemboly, S.J.
The book examines relevant sources from the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts (c. 24th century B.C.E.) to the Graeco-Roman Period inscriptions (2nd century C.E.) in order to understand the way the ancient Egyptians tackled the question of the origin of evil in the world. It also investigates whether the world was perfect or imperfect since its beginning. Scholars addressing these questions are generally of two categories: those advocating the pre-existent character of evil and asserting therefore that the world was not perfect since its creation, and those who plead for the contingent nature of evil and thus imply that the world was created perfect at the beginning but was marred afterwards by various protagonists other than the creator. 412p 416 pages March 2010 £34.99 --- $ 70 ISBN 978-1906137151
Danijela Stefanovic The Non-Royal Regular Feminine Titles of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: Dossiers GHP Egyptology 11 This book lists the dossiers of the holders of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period regular non-royal feminine titles: iryt-pat (rpatt), anx(t) n(t) niwt, anxt nt nswt tpt, aHayt, aqyt, wbAyt (wbAt), bAkt nt HqA, mnat, Hsyt (Hst), xtt-pr, and Xkrt-nswt. The dossiers, with a description and discussion for each title, contain lists of the sources in which the title holder is attested, as well as data concerning the family members, and a selected bibliography.
153 page, A5 - ISBN-13: 978-1-906137-12-0
Karen Exell Soldiers, Sailors and Sandalmakers: A Social Reading of Ramesside Period Votive Stelae , GHP Egyptology 10, I SBN: 9781906137106, London 2009 ,
The book sets out to explore the meaning of votive stelae to the individuals who dedicated them, and the nature of the events that they commemorate, during the Egyptian Ramesside Period (1295-1069 BC). All stelae can be described as commemorative, utilised to record a variety of types of information, from royal decrees, participation in expeditions and votive activity, to funerary texts securing offerings for the deceased. The Egyptian word for 'stela' is 'wedj,' which also has the meaning 'proclamation, declaration, order', and the stelae allow the information proclaimed to be commemorated eternally. The stelae in this discussion commemorate votive activity by private individuals. A4, 213p + 16 pls. UK £30 - US £ 60
Jac. J. Janssen Furniture at Deir el-Medîna, including Wooden Containers of the New Kingdom ISBN 978-1-906137-07-6
108 pages, £ 16.99 The aim of this book is to find the link between words and household objects. Using ostraca and papyri from the workmen’s village at Deir el-Medîna, the author discusses both the kind and relative frequency of furniture and wooden receptacles used in a typical New Kingdom home. Forty words referring to normal household objects also feature in the remarkable and previously unpublished Ostracon Varille 19. These are compared with other occurrences in order to assess how common each article was in the life of the community.
Jac J. Janssen Daily Dress at Deir el-Medina, Words for Clothing
GHP Egyptology 8 What clothes did ordinary people wear during the New Kingdom ? Evidence for this occurs mainly in the papyri and ostraca from Deir el-Medîna, the village of the workmen who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings . It is, however, still a problem what exactly each of the words for garments means. This book attempts to provide some solutions. 118 pages, A5 UK £15 - US $ 32 ISBN: 978-1-906137-05-2 Silke Grallert - Wolfram Grajetzki (editors) Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt during GHP Egyptology 7 paperback 160 pages + 8 plates, A4 UK price: £25 - $ 55
Contributions from a range of specialists on Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period religion, administration and culture.
Backes, Burkhard Grajetzki, Wolfram Grallert, Silke Horváth, Zoltán Lange, Eva Miniaci, Gianluca Quirke, Stephen Stefanović, Danijela Whelan, Paul
Paul Whelan Mere Scraps of Rough Wood? GHP Egyptology 6 Paperback, viii + 151 pages, 21 x 92.5 cm UK price £25 - US price $55 This monograph represents the first comprehensive investigation of the characteristically crude wooden ‘stick’ shabtis of the late 17 th and early 18 th Dynasties. Developed from a case study of examples in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and building upon scholarship that has until now focussed almost exclusively on the importance of their inscriptions, the work offers new perspectives on stick shabtis and their role in the cultic milieu during a transitional period in ancient Egyptian history. The broad based analysis draws upon excavation reports, archival material and a comparative examination of the physical characteristics of stick shabtis in the Petrie Museum and from other collections, in order to challenge the generally held view that besides their inscriptions these simple figures are little more than, to quote Flinders Petrie, “mere scraps of rough wood”. The book is profusely illustrated throughout and incorporates a detailed catalogue of stick shabtis in the Petrie Museum as well as a number of previously unpublished examples from public and private collections.
Roberto Gozzoli The Writing of History in Ancient Egypt during the First Millennium BC (ca.1070-180 BC). Paperback, XII + 398 pages, 17.5 x 24.8 cm UK price: £ 29.99 - US price $59
Danijela Stefanović The Holders of the Regular Military Titles in the Period of the Middle Kingdom: Dossiers GHP Egyptology 4 Paperback, 254 pages, A5 UK price: 20£- US price $45
Andrew Bednarski
Holding Egypt: tracing the Reception of the Paperback, vi + 106 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm (A4) Any person with an interest in the history of Egyptology quickly learns of the monumental Description de l'Egypte, a result of research undertaken by French scholars during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798. The starting point for this study is the long-standing belief, particularly visible in English literature, that this nineteenth-century French corpus was the first point in the development of Egyptology. Yet despite this oft-repeated belief, the issues of where exactly the work went, or what people made of it have yet to be explored. This book attempts to test the broad notion that the Description was the seminal point in the development of Egyptology by exploring its reception in Great Britain, in the early nineteenth century.
Stephen Quirke
Egyptian Literature 1800 BC
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Egyptology 2 Defining the literary as the content of literary books, as a distinctive material product, the author provides transliteration and translation into English for every surviving literary composition from the Middle Kingdom. Alongside famous intact masterpieces such as the Tale of Sanehat (Sinuhe), all literary fragments are also included. The series of translations is preceded by a short general discussion of four key aspects of literature: survival of books (with a list of the ten surviving groups of books from ancient Egypt); definitions of literature; authorship, the question of how literary works were composed; and reception, the question of how they were read.
Stephen Quirke Titles and bureaux of Egypt 1850-1700 BC Egyptology
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