The Ancient The Hieratic Ritual Books of Pawerem Egyptian Book (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) of Thoth from the Late 4th Century BC Special Edition by Ann-Katrin Gill of the Editio This volume constitutes the first edition of the ritual texts preserved Princeps, 2005 on two papyri that originally formed one consecutive roll. The texts by Richard preserved on it can be connected to the Khoiak festival, the most Jasnow and important celebration of Osiris. At some point around 300 BC, this Karl-Th. Zauzich manuscript was adapted by the private individual Pawerem for his own benefit in the afterlife. Here, the papyri are edited and pub- The first volume, a lished as an integral whole. Along with the hieroglyphic transcrip- reprint, comprises tion, transliteration, translation, and line-to-line commentary, overall questions are answered. interpretative essays; discussion of specific points such 2 vols, 1076p, 22 illus, 80 pls, 43 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Studien zur spätägyptischen as the manuscript tradition, script, and language; Religion 25) hardcover, 9783447112390, $335.00. Special Offer $268.00 the transliteration of the Demotic text, translation, and commentary; as well as a consecutive transla- Between Temple and Tomb tion, glossary, bibliography, and indices. The second The Demotic Ritual Texts of Bodl. MS Egypt. a. 3(P) volume, which contains photographs of the papyri, is published in a new smaller layout. This special edition by Mark Smith is intended as a prelude to the forthcoming Volume The ritual texts edited in this volume are known to have been Three of the Book of Thoth, which will present a re- employed both for the benefit of the god Osiris and for ordinary vised transliteration, translation, notes, and facsimi- deceased people, in certain cases, during one and the same les, as well as editions of numerous “new” fragments. period of Egypt’s history. This is one of their most interesting and 2 vols 700p (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2020) striking features. They stand at the interface between temple cult hardcover, 9783447113922, $268.00. and cult of the dead, and allow us to trace the transmission of Special Offer $215.00 beliefs and practices from one sphere to the other. 222p, 2 illus, 14 pls, 3 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Photo: Broad Bracelet of Sithathoryunet, ca. 1887–1813 BC. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion 30) hardcover, 9783447113311, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16.1.9 (Public Domain).
70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Sedfestritual und Königtum Die Reliefdekoration am Torbau Osorkons II. im Tempel der Bastet von Bubastis by Eva Lange-Athinodorou The so-called Sed festival, one of the most substantial Egyptian royal rituals, is documented in figurative and written sources over the entire period of ancient Egyptian history. Among these, the relief decoration on the gate of Osorkon II (874–850 BC) in the temple of the main goddess of Bubastis plays an outstanding role, with extensive episodes of the cult acts and rituals depicted. After its discovery by Edouard Naville in 1887, and its subsequent first publication in 1892, however, this material received very little attention in ancient Egyptian research. On the basis of current field studies, the monograph presented here comprehensively analyzes the reliefs of Bubastis and places them within the context of earlier source corpora. German text. 504p, 88 illus, 4 pls, catalog on CD-ROM (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 75) hardcover, 9783447111928, $200.00. Special Offer $160.00
Perfekt, Pseudopartizip, Stativ Türöffner des Himmels Die afroasiatische Suffixkonjugation Prosopographische Studien zur in sprachvergleichender Perspektive thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft by Marc Brose der Ptolemäerzeit The Afro-Asian suffix conjugation is a finite by Ralph Birk verbal form type, which is used across In the late Dynastic and Ptolemaic periods, most language branches of the Afro-Asian Thebes was still one of the most important languages from the 3rd millennium BC until religious centers in Egypt, mainly based today. This study offers a detailed documen- on the cult of Amunrasonther in Karnak. tation of form, functional spectrum, and Ralph Birk presents the first comprehensive possible inner-language developments, with analysis of the diachronic development of an emphasis on Semitic and ancient Egyptian languages. German text. the high priestly families of Thebes from the 4th to the 1st century BC and 325p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des their different roles in Karnak. The genealogies of the families are reconstruct- Morgenlandes 117) paperback, 9783447112819, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 ed and the titles of the priests are situated within their cultic and administra- tive contexts. German text. Elephantine XXXVI 566p, 14 illus, 49 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Ägyptologische Der ptolemäische Satettempel Abhandlungen 76) hardcover, 9783447112789, $227.00. Special Offer $182.00 und seine Nebenanlagen und die Treppenanlage des nördlichen Elephantine XXII Sakralbezirks Ausgrabungen in der Weststadt 1987–1992. Die Funde by Horst Jaritz, Ewa Laskowska- by Josefine Kuckertz and Ingrid Nebe Kusztal and Walter Niederberger This volume contains the finds from the excavations conducted in the western The Ptolemaic temple of Satet on Elephan- part of Elephantine from 1987 to 1992. The urban area here comprises tine is one of the last sites of pharaonic cultic archaeological layers ranging from the late New Kingdom to Roman times. life on the island. As the ancillary buildings Almost 1850 individual finds were recorded: round sculptures, jewelry, seal erected along the banks of the Nile directly impressions, inlaid work, personal hygiene utensils and clothing, models and in front of the temple show, this cult was closely connected with the annual games, vessel closures and non-ceramic vessels, tools and weapons, fibulae, flood and the reappearance of Sirius in a special constellation. German text. furniture, miscellaneous items, and inscribed objects. German text. 318p, 93 illus, 75 pls, 2 fold-out pls, 20 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 400p, 15 pls with 172 photos, 186 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2020, 2019, Archäologische Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Archäologische Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Instituts 127) hardcover, 9783447112079, $214.00. Special Offer $172.00 102) hardcover, 9783447105927, $222.00. Special Offer $178.00
2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Enigma of the Hyksos Volume I edited by Manfred Bietak and Silvia Prell At the end of the Early Bronze Age, people were clearly on the move, settlements were abandoned and the reasons for this phenomenon, either political, economic, ecological or social in nature, are partly still mysterious. Although differentiated regional clusters are in many cases still not easy to pinpoint, it becomes clear that the Greater Levantine Area, was, despite all differences, embedded into networks of interregional connectivity most likely sustained by trade relations. This volume comprises the collected papers of two workshops specifically aimed to gain a better understanding of the Western Asiatic populations settling in the eastern Delta of Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom to the early New Kingdom. 418p, 215 illus, 3 pls, 30 tbls, 26 maps (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 9) hardcover, 9783447113328, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 Tell el-Fara’în-Buto VI The Historiography Recherches sur les ateliers romains of Alexander the Great de Bouto: Prospections et sondages edited by Krzysztof Nawotka, (2001–2006) Robert Rollinger, Josef Wiesehöfer by Pascale Ballet, Fréderic Béguin, and Agnieszka Wojciechowska Guy Lecuyot and Anne Schmitt This volume tackles the most serious In order to investigate the Graeco-Roman problem facing modern Alexander the and Byzantine settlement, using topo- Great studies: that of inadequate sources. graphical and geophysical surveys, the Its principal interest is in surviving ancient excavations in the northern part of the city continuous accounts, which are at least unearthed two kinds of workshops and three hundred years younger than productions from the Early Roman period. French text. Alexander and in many ways one-sided in their Greek bias. The papers in 430p, 99 illus, 58 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Archäologische this volume deconstruct these accounts and search for sources used by their Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 110) hardcover, authors, principally in narrative of eye-witnesses and other authors of the 9783447110242, $214.00. Special Offer $172.00 first generation after Alexander. 258p (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2019, Classica et Orientalia 20) hardcover, Ancient Egyptian and Ancient 9783447111645, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 Near Eastern Palaces Volume II Umm el-Qaab VIII edited by Manfred Bietak, Das Grab des Peribsen Paolo Matthiae and Silvia Prell by Claudia Lacher-Raschdorff The study of the semiotics of palaces After the burial place of the kings had moved to Saqqara near the royal seat of demonstrates the kind of representation Memphis at the beginning of the 2nd Dynasty, King Peribsen (around 2760? chosen by rulers towards their world. BC) returned with his burial site to the traditional necropolis of Umm el-Qaab. Some features were adopted from temples There, like the kings of the 1st Dynasty, he had an underground model house in order to stage the appearance of the made of Nile mud bricks built in the desert sand, with the burial chamber at ruler like a divine epiphany. Some further its center. On the basis of archaeology, architecture, and building research, integrate a temple within the palace, showcasing the desire of the ruler to this volume examines the tomb with regard to its construction planning, live with a specific deity under one roof for divine support and protection. execution of construction, and building technology. German text. 256p, 170 illus, 10 maps, 10 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2019, 188p, 29 illus, 25 pls, 5 fold-outs (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2020, Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 8) hardcover, Archäologische Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 9783447111836, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 128) hardcover, 9783447113441, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 3 Untersuchungen zur Keramik Die Gefässverschlüsse aus der Ersten Zwischenzeit und Grab N13.1 in Assiut des frühen Mittleren Reichs by Michael Van Elsbergen aus Assiut/Mittelägypten Tomb N13.1 which stands on high ground by Andrea Kilian in the western rock necropolis of Asyut in This volume examines the pottery of the Middle Egypt was built for the local ruler First Intermediate Period and the Middle Iti-ibi (-iqer) during the 11th Dynasty, in Kingdom (2200–1700 BC), which was the period around 2000 BC. All of the 900 found in 16 shaft and rock tombs in the vessel closures made of Nile clay (as well area of the necropolis of Gebel Assiut as a single limestone closure) which were al-Gharbi. In addition to the first-time found here are described in detail in this documentation and evaluation of previously unpublished material, the corpus volume and their relevance is examined. German text. of vessel types from Asyut is compared with those of other regions along the 166p (Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2019, The Asyut Project 10) hardcover, Nile valley and analyzed in detail. German text. 9783447110976, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 448p, 752 illus, 16 pls, 26 plans, 16 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, The Asyut Project 12) hardcover, 9783447112086, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Narrative: Geschichte – Mythos – Repräsentation Das ägyptische Alte Reich Beiträge des achten Berliner Diskussionen zur “Ereignisgeschichte” Arbeitskreises Junge Aegyptologie der 3. bis 6. Dynastie (BAJA 8) 1.12.–3.12.2017 by Vera Blumenthal edited by Dina Serova, The history of the Old Kingdom has so far Burkhard Backes, Matthieu W. Götz been dealt with exclusively within the and Alexandra Verbovsek context of general reviews of Egyptian This volume comprises nine contributions, history. In order to show to what extent which were presented and discussed at a reconstruction of the event history of the eighth conference of the Berliner the Old Kingdom is possible at all, Vera Arbeitskreis Junge Aegyptologie (BAJA). The focus of the conference was on Blumenthal takes frequently expressed the topic of “narratives.” The result is a broad spectrum of contributions from statements and theses on this topic and examines them for their verifiability. different areas of Egyptology and Coptology. German text. The author subjects groups of texts and monuments from which historical 164p, 16 illus, 1 tbl (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2019, Göttinger Orientforschungen conclusions are regularly drawn to a source-critical analysis. German text. IV. Reihe: Ägypten 65) paperback, 9783447112024, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00 265p, 21 illus, 8 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Göttinger Orientforschungen IV. Reihe: Ägypten 66) paperback, 9783447112031, $87.00. Special Offer $70.00 Enchoria. Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie Band 35, 2016/2017 Akten der 8. Internationalen Konferenz für Demotische Contents include: The Michaelides Demotic Material; A grain account in the Studien, Würzburg 27.–30. August 2002 Swansea Wellcome Collection (T. Swansea W552); With a Spike and Staff edited by Karl-Theodor Zauzich in his Hand, and a Fiery Brazier above his Head; Dealing about Wheeling in Contents include: New Demotic Sources from the Late Period Cemetery at Augustan Thebes: A Demotic Lease of a Cart (O.Ashm.Dem. 28); The Demotic Abusir; Aramaic and Demotic Epistolary Formulae; The role(s) of scribes in Ptol- Name for Philadelphia; Eine neue Lesung in P. Loeb 6 Z. 15; Corrections and emaic Egypt; The Demotistische Literaturübersicht; “Abnormal” Hieratic and Additions to The Craft of a Good Scribe: History, Narrative and Meaning in Early Demotic Documents Concerning Debts.. English, German, and Italian text. the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas. English and German text. 190p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2019) hardcover, 9783447112307, $92.00. 276p (Harrassowitz Verlag, January 2019) paperback, 9783447098991, Special Offer $74.00 $148.00. Special Offer $119.00
4 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Body and Frames of War Epigraphy Through in New Kingdom Egypt Five Millennia Violent Treatment of Enemies Texts and Images in Context and Prisoners edited by Svenja Dirksen by Uroš Matić and Lena Krastel Uroš Matić for the first time comprehen- For thousands of years, people have sively compares divine and state violence in expressed their cultural and religious ideas ancient Egypt. He discusses evidence from in pictorial and written form. Epigraphy physical-anthropology (skeletal remains) is concerned with the very same lega- and chooses a constructivist approach to cies, which have been written, painted, textual and pictorial representations of engraved or chiseled on various materi- violence. Bodies of enemies are understood as objects and media of violence. als. The sources studied includes a range of visual and textual media, such Several theoretical models are consulted in the examination of the material. as stelae and statues, as well as rock faces and buildings. The contributions It is argued that there was a difference in violent acts committed by the king in this volume illuminate the geographical area of present-day Egypt and and those committed by the soldiers. The king treats the enemies in the same Sudan, while covering a time frame ranging from early rock paintings and way as deities and demons treat the dead in the Underworld. The violence monumental pharaonic inscriptions to tombstones from the Islamic period committed by soldiers, on the other hand, is mundane and has no religious and modern graffiti in public spaces. They address a broad spectrum of background. This difference strengthened the divine nature of the king. epigraphic topics, theoretical and methodological approaches, and discuss 422p, 29 pls, 2 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2019, Philippika 134) current research questions as well as future perspectives. paperback, 9783447113021, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 280p, 262 illus, 10 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020, Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 43) hardcover, Die Vergöttlichung 9783447113847, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 von Privatpersonen Untersuchungen zu persönlichen Isis im Römischen Reich Glaubensvorstellungen und Teil 1: Die Göttin im griechisch- Erinnerungskultur im alten Ägypten: römischen Ägypten Die Persönlichkeiten des Alten Reiches Teil 2: Adaption(en) des Kultes by Sabine Krämer im Westen This volume focuses on a part of Egyptian by Svenja Nagel culture that has not received much atten- This two-volume study is concerned with tion until now, which is the deification the development of the goddess Isis in and worship of private persons. Signs of Greco-Roman Egypt and the contempo- deification are, among others, a considerable duration over time of the cult rary diffusion of her cult into the western of the dead, the deposit of votive offerings at the graves, and the baptism of Mediterranean. The first volume offers a deceased children. Such practices remind us, to a certain extent, or practices reappraisal of the numerous textual sources related to Isis from Greco-Roman within Christianity; indeed, similar phenomena are to be found in different Egypt, after which Svenja Nagel analyzes the development of the concepts of ways in many cultures and religions, indicating that this satisfies a universal the goddess in their country of origin, which at the time was dominated by religious need. Sabine Krämer’s study of the memorial cultures in Egypt is the foreign rule of Macedonian and Roman rulers, whose cultural influence based on an extensive collection of materials, including evidence such as was paramount in this period. The focus of the second volume follows up biographies, cult sites, and the votive offerings dedicated to the life and wor- important questions about the inner-Egyptian sources for the adaption of the ship of the deceased, all of which are thoroughly analyzed. German text. cult of Isis in the western Mediterranean. German text. 520p (Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2019, Philippika 120) hardcover, 2 vols, 1462p (Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2019, Philippika 109) hardcover, 9783447110075, $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 9783447108010, $269.00. Special Offer $216.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 5 Sarg und Sarkophag der Aaschyt (Kairo JE 47355 und 47267) by Burkhard Backes Aaschyt was one of several wives of King Mentuhotep II (ca. 2009–1959 BC) who were buried in a separate area of his burial complex. She is the only one whose burial preserves both an inner wooden coffin and a decorated stone sarcophagus. Al- though both pieces are well known, they have not been completely edited until now. Burkhard Backes closes this gap with the photographic and graphic documentation of the objects and a detailed analysis of their inscriptions and pictorial decoration. In addition to the detailed philological treatment of the inscriptions, references to the contents of the individual text and image units as well as elements of an overarching decoration program are explored. The results invite comparisons with other coffins and coffin ensembles, as well as methodological questions. German text. 2 vols, 750p, 50 pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 21) hardcover, 9783447113076, $241.00. Special Offer $193.00 Das Horn des Steinbocks Chnum, der Herr Die Treppen und der Dachkiosk in der Töpferscheibe Dendara als Quellen zum Neujahrsfest Altägyptische Embryologie nach Ausweis der Esnatexte: Das Ritual by Alexa Rickert “Darbringen der Töpferscheibe” The New Year celebration was one of the most important events in the cult calendar by Christian Leitz and Florian of every Egyptian temple. Exceptionally Alexander Löffler extensive and well-preserved sources can Christian Leitz examines the texts of the be found in the Hathor Temple of Dendara. Temple of Esna and related testimonies The inscriptions and representations in the inside and outside the late period temples stairwells and the roof pavilion, as well for concepts of ancient Egyptian embryol- as their architectural frame, form the core of the present investigation. This ogy and its underlying ideas about the development of the unborn child. provides a comprehensive picture of the events on the first day of the year Florian Löffler presents the ritual scene “Offering the potter’s wheel” for the and their theological and astronomical background. German text. first time in a complete translation with detailed commentary. German text. 2 vols, 858p, 48 pls, 51 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Studien zur spätägyp- 174p, 11 illus, 11 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2019, Studien zur spätägyp- tischen Religion 23) hardcover, 9783447111430, $268.00. Special Offer $215.00 tischen Religion 26) hardcover, 9783447112796, $81.00. Special Offer $65.00 Türinschriften im Naos des Die sogenannte Hundestele des Hathortempels von Dendara Königs Wah-Anch Intef aus el-Târif Eine Studie zu Stilistik und Theologie Eine Forschungsgeschichte in ägyptischen Tempeltexten der by Daniel Polz griechisch-römischen Zeit The tombstone of King Wah-Anch Intef by Jan Tattko (around 2050 BC), which is called the Interactions between decoration and archi- “dog stela” because of its depictions, is at tecture are analyzed and it is shown how the center of this study. The book’s main coherent text compositions were created interest lies in the unclear circumstances of by editing and redesigning text sequences its discovery and subsequent whereabouts, and individual statements from different as well as its immediate archaeological and set pieces. Intertextuality and the question of a uniform concept of inscrip- former architectural context. German text. tions are the main focus of the investigation. German text. 86p (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2019, Sonderschriften des Deutschen 596p, 43 illus, 30 tbls, pls (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Studien zur spätägyp- Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 42) hardcover, 9783447112314, tischen Religion 27) hardcover, 9783447112598, $268.00. Special Offer $215.00 $106.00. Special Offer $85.00
6 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Africa – Ifrīqiya Continuity and Change in North Africa from the Byzantine to the Early Islamic Age edited by Ralf Bockmann, Anna Leone and Philipp von Rummel This book is dedicated to the study of the transformational period that marked the end of Antiquity in the southern Mediterra- nean: the transition between east Roman, or Byzantine, and Arabic (and ultimately Islamic) rule over what eventually came to be known as the Maghreb, the former territory of Roman North Africa. The sections in this book cover historical questions, the fields of religion and urbanism, and developments in landscapes and the economy. A wide range of topics is discussed, includ- ing church building, the founding of early mosques, military history, and the ideology of political centers. A number of articles feature detailed presentations and discussions of Arabic sources. Many of the contributions present recent archaeological research, making material evidence available for the post-Roman phases in a number of exemplary sites. 322p, 62 illus, 8 maps, 6 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, March 2020, Palilia 34) paperback, 9783447113335, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00
Sim’ān b. Kalīl. Leben und Werk News from Texts and Archaeology Mit einer Edition der “Einleitung Acts of the 7th International Fayoum in die Psalmen” Symposium. 29 October–3 November by Joseph Faragalla 2018 in Cairo and the Fayoum The Copto-Arabic writer Sim’ān ibn edited by Cornelia E. Römer Kalīl lived in the 12th/13th century, the Papers in this volume all draw a picture of so-called “golden age” of Christian Arabic the multicultural society of the Egyptian literature of the Coptic Church, and left countryside in the Graeco-Roman period. behind a diverse literary oeuvre in an Of special interest are the three maps extremely elaborate and aesthetically attached to the volume as an extra, which pleasing Arabic style. Although his writings show the changing levels of the lake in the have often received the attention they deserve, none of his works have yet north of the oasis through the pharaonic and Ptolemaic/Roman periods. been published or translated. Joseph Faragalla now presents a complete over- 210p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020) hardcover, 9783447113960, $79.00. view of Sim’ān ibn Kalīl’s life and work and, for the first time, an edition and Special Offer $64.00 translation of his Introduction to the Psalms. German text. 218p, 14 tbls (Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2019, Eichstätter Beiträge zum Die magischen Texte von Papyrus Christlichen Orient 8) paperback, 9783447113144, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 Nr. 1826 der Nationalbibliothek Griechenlands Mitteilungen des Deutschen edited by Hans-Werner Fischer- Archäologischen Instituts, Elfert and Friedhelm Hoffmann Abteilung Kairo 74 (2018) This book is the first edition of an approx. edited by Stephan J. Seidlmayer 3.6 m long papyrus scroll from the 20th and Daniel Polz dynasty, probably of Theban origin, with The Mitteilungen der Abteilung Kairo provide 17 largely preserved columns in hieratic an international platform for contributions script. Except for a few administrative to the archaeology and cultural history of notes, the papyrus contains magical say- Egypt. The topics range from the predynas- ings in literary style, several of which are arranged into partly extensive ritu- tic to the pharaonic, Christian, and Islamic als. One of the main aims of the edition is to shed light on their mythological periods. English and German text. background. German and Greek text. 196p (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2019) hardcover, 9783447111942, 416p (Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2020, Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 77) $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 hardcover, 9783447112017, $214.00. Special Offer $172.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 7 Statues in Context Abydos Production, Meaning and (Re)uses The Sacred Land at the edited by Aurélia Masson-Berghoff Western Horizon Moving beyond typological and stylis- edited by Ilona Regulski tic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the The volume is the first of two volumes papers gathered here seek to explore that explore Abydos through the lenses the architectural, cultic and production of the latest archaeological, archival contexts of statuary, to shed light on and collections research, building upon religious or cultural practices, and the a colloquium and workshop held at the political or economic agenda behind British Museum in 2015. The contribu- the display or hiding of these sculp- tions address the social and cultural tures. his collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chrono- dynamics of an ever-changing landscape serving this unique ritual narrative. logical range and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. 339p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, British Museum Publications on Egypt 302p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 8) hardcover, 9789042937987, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 and Sudan 10) hardcover, 9789042938076, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937994, $188.00
Egypt and the Augustan Egyptian Language Cultural Revolution in Greek Sources An Interpretative Archaeological Scripta Onomastica of Jan Quaegebeur Overview edited by Willy Clarysse by M. E. J. J. van Aerde and Ana I. Blasco Torres Studies of Augustan material culture, This volume brings together J. Quaegebeur’s have long categorized objects featuring articles dating between 1969 and 1995 on Egyptian styles, themes and materials Greek renderings of Egyptian names and as exoticism, a fashion trend, or signs words. Some of them are translated from of so-called ‘Egyptomania’. The research Dutch into English, and all are updated by presented and discussed in this book, in incorporating bibliographical references contrast, raises the question whether and how ‘Egypt’ constituted an integral from 1970 until 2018 and comments by the editors. part of this Augustan material culture repertoire. 384p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 280) 193p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Babesch Supplementa 38) paperback, hardcover, 9789042937758, $119.99. Special Offer $96.00 9789042940574, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940581, $100.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937765, $149.00
Les “Deux Livres de Iéou” (MS Bruce 96, 1–3) Nag Hammadi à 70 ans. Qu’avons-nous appris? Les Livres du grand discours mystérique – Le Livre des connaissances Nag Hammadi at 70. What Have We Learned? du Dieu invisible – Fragment sur le passage de l’âme edited by Eric Crégheur, Louis Painchaud and Tuomas Rasimus by Eric Crégheur In 1945, a collection of papyrus codices containing previously unknown Christian The reader will find a brand new critical edition of the Coptic text of the two texts was discovered in Upper Egypt near Nag Hammadi. Seventy years later, Books of Iéou based on glass negatives of the manuscript and a collation of it seemed helpful to evaluate what we have learned from the texts at an the original codex, kept at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The critical edition international colloquium. The objective was to observe progress and changes in is accompanied by a French translation and by philological and textual notes, scholarship and to consider new avenues for research. English and French text. which explain the Coptic text and justify the choice of translation. French text. 450p (Peeters Publishers, April 2019, Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi. Section 550p (Peeters Publishers, April 2019, Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi. Section “Études” 10) paperback, 9789042936300, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00 “Textes” 38) paperback, 9789042932791, $173.00. Special Offer $139.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939202, $142.00
8 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Ornamental Calcite Vessels from the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Lise Manniche At the time of the clearing of the tomb of Tutankhamun Howard Carter and his team made meticulous handwritten notes of every single object found. Yet a full scholarly publication of the majority of them has yet to be undertaken. This book presents a catalogue of the ornamental calcite vessels with an introduction and a discussion of their artistic merit, at times disputed, as well as their purpose during the life of Tutankhamun and after his death. Their intricate design combining utilitarian use with symbolic forms and ornamentation paired with a near perfect state of preservation makes them rare examples of royal arts and crafts of late 18th dynasty Egypt. The book is illustrated with original black & white photographs, most of them taken at the time of the discovery, as well as some drawings made by Howard Carter. 117p, illus (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Griffith Institute Publications) hardcover, 9789042937215, $78.00. Special Offer $63.00 A Concise Dictionary The Fayoum Survey Project: The Themistou Meris of Middle Egyptian Volume A: The Archaeological by Raymond O. Faulkner and Papyrological Survey This concise dictionary of ‘Middle Egyp- by C. E. Römer tian’—that phase of the Ancient Egyptian The Themistou Meris was the north-western language which had the widest general administrative district of the Oasis Fayoum application—contains 5400 carefully se- in the Graeco-Roman Period, home of Greek lected words most likely to be encountered speaking settlers and indigenous Egyptians, by students and scholars in the course of who lived side by side in villages, many of their regular work on Egyptian texts. First them newly founded by the first Ptolemaic published in 1962, this Concise Dictionary Kings in the 3rd century BC. The book is the has become the standard work of reference and is now in its tenth printing. result of an archaeological survey and small 350p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Griffith Institute Publications) excavations carried out between 2000 and hardcover, 9780900416323, $55.00. Special Offer $44.00 2016; it seeks to combine the written and the archaeological evidence, offering new proposals for identifying ancient names with ancient sites, and gives a Another Athanasius panorama of the multicultural society of the ancient Fayoum. Four Sahidic Homilies Attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria 408p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Collectanea Hellenistica 8) paperback, by Ibrahim Saweros 9789042936270, $128.00. Special Offer $103.00 The homilies present Athanasius as a close friend of Pachomius, the Archi- PDF e-book, 9789042938830, $160.00 mandrite of Upper Egypt. A visit of Pachomius to Alexandria is described in Volume B: The Ceramological Survey detail. One homily relates about Athanasius’ escape to Upper Egypt. Another contains fanciful acts of the Nicene council. The last one presents Athanasius by D. M. Bailey as a preacher while giving a long talk on the Christian household. The great doyen of the pottery of the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, the late Donald M. Bailey, did not live to see his volume in print. His legacy is Text an exemplary study of forms and materials of the different kinds of ceramic 121p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum vessels, from amphorae to cooking-pots and from coarse kitchen ware to fine Orientalium, Scriptores Coptici 51) paperback, 9789042940093, $112.00. table ware. The book is rounded off by two short essays, which add up-to- Special Offer $90.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940109, $140.00 date information on the pottery found in the Themistou Meris as well as in other districts of the Fayoum. Version 356p (Peeters Publishers, May 2019, Collectanea Hellenistica 9) paperback, 105p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum 9789042936287, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 Orientalium, Scriptores Coptici 52) paperback, 9789042940116, $99.00. PDF e-book, 9789042938847, $150.00 Special Offer $80.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940123, $124.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 9 Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale
Les papyrus magiques du La Chapelle de Barque en Ramesseum Calcite aux Noms d’Amenhotep Recherches sur une bibliothèque Ier et de Thoutmosis Ier privée de la fin du Moyen Empire by Jean-François Carlotti, Luc by Pierre Meyrat Gabolde, Catherine Graindorge, The Ramesseum papyri were composed Philippe Martinez and Jean- in the late Middle Kingdom and discov- François Gout ered in a wooden box at the bottom of This first volume of a series dedicated a tomb shaft during British excavations to the Monuments of Amenhotep I at carried out in 1895–1896 on the west Karnak, the publication of the calcite bank of Thebes. Half of them comprise chapel in the names of Amenhotep I the earliest collection of magical papyri known to this day. Often compared and of Thutmose I materializes the achievement of a long scientific process to the other two famous magical libraries known (the Chester-Beatty papyri initiated by the discovery in 1914 of the first blocks in the foundations of for the New Kingdom and the Wilbour papyri for the Late Period), the magical the southern tower of the 3rd pylon. The calcite chapel is a repository for the papyri from the Ramesseum, today preserved at the British Museum, were god’s portable bark during Amun’s procession festivals. Its original location is published in 1955 by Sir Alan H. Gardiner in a volume of plates, and are here still debated: either inside the festival courtyard of Thutmose II, or the place studied systematically for the first time. Due to their poor state of conserva- where the “inthronization seat of Amun” was later erected. Its decoration was tion, the deciphering of these very fragile and fragmentary documents often later duplicated in most of Karnak’s calcite bark shrines. French text. represents a conundrum. Although most of the spells are apparently unique 224p (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, December 2019, Bibliothèque to these papyri, several parallels could be identified in earlier or later sources. générale 58) hardcover, 9782724707588, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00 New hypotheses are also proposed on the user of these documents and on their geographic origin. French text. Le temple de Ptah à Karnak III 2 vols, 448p (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, March 2019, Bibliothèque La Favissa d’étude 172) hardcover, 9782724707373, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 by Guillaume Charloux Trésors inattendus and Christophe Thiers Trente ans de fouilles et de In December 2014, excavation near the coopération à Umm el-Breigât temple of Ptah in Karnak uncovered a favissa—a pit filled with objects—dug (Tebtynis - Fayoum) a few meters behind the shrine of the by Claudio Gallazzi god. The pit contained thirty-eight and Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou objects, statues, statuettes, and statuary The village of Tebtynis, located on the elements, in limestone, greywacke, southern edge of the Fayum, was inhab- copper alloy, and Egyptian frit, sometimes gilded. Dug at the end of the ited for about 3000 years from the 12th Ptolemaic Period, the pit housed a New Kingdom broken statue of the god Dynasty to the 13th century AD. After Ptah, surrounded by religious artifacts and many Osirian bronzes, most of the its discovery in 1899, it was excavated objects dating back to the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period (es- by several scientific missions, ransacked by antiquities looters, and widely pecially 25th and 26th Dynasties). The analysis and the interpretation of the destroyed in the search of sebâkh. The Franco-Italian mission has uncovered data lead, in this volume, to look at the Egyptian sacred caches as a whole, new areas, filled major gaps of knowledge, and unearthed thousands of and to consider the present deposit as a testimony of the burial of a statue of objects and texts. Of the material recovered, this catalogue presents a limited the god Ptah in an Osirian ritual context. French text. choice, but of great scientific and museological interest. French text. 204p, 189 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, June 2019, Bibliothèque 328p, 267 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, March 2019, Bibliothèque générale 55) hardcover, 9782724707441, $55.00. Special Offer $44.00 générale 57) paperback, 9782724707472, $56.00. Special Offer $45.00
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El Hawawish. Tombs, Religion et alimentation dans Sarcophagi, Stelae l’Égypte et l’Orient anciens Palaeography edited by Marie-Lys Arnette by Vivienne G. Callender Religion and food are intrinsically linked. This study in the series Paléographie Religion, especially in Antiquity, requires hiéroglyphique offers a segment of hiero- food to form the rite: food as offerings glyphic writing from a discrete period: the permits the circulation between this world disturbed times from the end of the Old and hereafter, from the living making of- Kingdom to the end of the First Intermedi- ferings to the gods and the dead and then ate Period. Unlike other volumes in this in return, the gods - and sometimes the series, however, the hieroglyphs from the dead - through the abundance of harvests Akhmim cemetery of El-Hawawish have been drawn from various sources: offer food to the living. At the heart of food practices, religion imposes its tomb reliefs and paintings, stelae, wooden coffins and statues; consequently, mark by contributing to the manufacture of a standardized framework, which both the length of the era and the varied nature of the writing surfaces is also a vector of identity. It designates what is edible, therefore considered and the materials used at times encouraged the introduction of numerous pure, and what is not; it creates the rules for preparing food, from the field and interesting variations into Egypt’s hieroglyphic corpus. The Australian to the kitchen, and sets standards of conduct at the time of consumption. It publication of this hieroglyphic record from El-Hawawish has been especially is precisely because the notion of norm is at the heart of both, that religion important because of the poor state of preservation of the tombs and the and food are privileged means to question societies, to compare them, and to limited printed material available prior to the 1980s. Particularly notable are underline the specificities of each. The present work aims to clarify the place the careful transcriptions from the wooden coffins from this era. This volume of food in myths and ritual practices, and to define the nature and importance presents a representative sample of that precious writing. of the religious mark in food practices. It brings together 17 articles, both case 644p, 6 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, October 2019, Paléographie studies and synthesis works on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant, hiéroglyphique 8) hardcover, 9782724707311, $103.00. Special Offer $83.00 from the 3rd millennium BC to late Antiquity. English and French text. 2 vols, 632p, 110 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, March Bulletin de l’Institut Français 2019, Recherches d’archéologie, de philologie et d’histoire 43) paperback, d’Archéologie Orientale 118 9782724707397, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 Contents include: Papyrus coptes et grecs de la jarre d’Edfou (suite); La table Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’offrande Louvre D 69; Glimpses of the d’Archéologie Orientale 119 First Owners of a Reused Burial; Zum Contents: Étude épigraphique de la façade Mundöffnungsritual im Grab des Padia- occidentale du IIe pylône de Karnak; La menope (TT 33); An Early Old Kingdom porte nord-ouest de la ville antique de Rural Community in the Eastern Nile Delta; Doukki Gel; Ten Coptic ostraca at the IFAO; Die Göttin Nut und der Ba-Vogel; Un nou- Le mammisi de Nectanébo à Dendara; veau décret amulettique oraculaire; Einige Comment traduire jdnw?; Des réfractaires Bezeichnungen für kleine und mittelgroße Säugetiere im Alten Ägypten; La à l’enrôlement?; La porte sud du pylône du dernière phase d’occupation de la nécropole de Kôm Abou Billou; The Road to temple de Khonsou à Karnak; Un chambel- Mounira; A Remarkable Set of Blocks from the Reign of Nectanebo II Found at lan du grand prêtre d’Amon Pinedjem II?; Awlad Musa; Quelques considérations sur le “tableau de l’oracle de Méda- Se baigner à l’aube de la conquête arabo-musulmane; Un thesauros/grenier moud”; Morceaux de bravoure et traits d’humour; Ostraca with Identity Marks à Bouto; Egyptian Middle Kingdom Oyster Shells with Royal Names; Un and the Organisation of the Royal Necropolis Workmen of the 18th Dynasty; pylône thoutmoside à Medamoud; Renseneb et la chapelle abydénienne de The Book of Caverns in Theban Tomb 33. English, French, and German text. Montouhotep II sous la XIIIe dynastie. English and French text. 630p, 212 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, October 2019) 360p (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, December 2019) hardcover, hardcover, 9782724707465, $143.00. Special Offer $115.00 9782724707649, $96.00. Special Offer $77.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 11 Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale
Athribis V Le temple funéraire Archäologie im Repit-Tempel du roi Pépy Ier zu Athribis 2012–2016 Le temps de la construction by Marcus Müller, Mohamed by Audran Labrousse El-Bialy and Mansour Boraik This volume concerns the pyramid This volume presents the 2012–1016 temple of the mortuary complex of Pepy excavations of the Eberhard-Karls I, third King of the 6th Dynasty. It belongs Universität Tübingen in the Repit Temple, to the series of publications concerning built by Ptolemy XII, which is located in the pyramid of Pepy I: the texts, the Athribis in Sohag Province. The first ac- translation of the texts, the architecture count portrays the challenging working and stone marks. It includes the project conditions due to hundreds of heavy, fallen temple blocks, then the formalities for the royal tomb, the arrival of his causeway, the exteriors, the two parts of of excavation techniques and documentation. Since all large stone temples the temple: the fore-temple and the cult-temple. It presents the small tails in Egypt were cleared by the early 20th century without paying attention to of the decoration blocks. Many hypotheses for restitutions are proposed, both the archaeological deposits, the excavation in Athribis provided a unique op- for the architecture and the reliefs and their original location on the walls. portunity to investigate the late Roman and early Medieval reuse of a temple. Finally, modifications to the monument under Merenre I and an essay of The most important results of each room are presented in chronological order. synthesis between function and decoration are envisaged. French text. Several rooms with their respective archaeological features, finds, secondary 2 vols, 496p, 696 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, June 2019, installations, and architectural issues are then discussed. German text. Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 2 vols, 584p, 1020 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, December 137) hardcover, 9782724707090, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 2019, Temples 15) hardcover, 9782724707403, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 Mirgissa V Ostraca de Krokodilô II Les empreintes de sceaux La correspondance privée et les Aperçu sur l’administration de la réseaux personnels de Philoklès, Basse Nubie au Moyen Empire Apollôs et Ischyras by Brigitte Gratien by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Jean-Luc This volume is devoted to the publication Fournet and Bérangère Redon of the seals, dating from the 12th and The fort of Krokodilo on the road from 13th dynasties, which were discovered Coptos to Myos Hormos was excavated in in the Mirgissa fortress on the southern 1996–97. Its rubbish-dump was formed Egyptian frontier. More than 15,000 during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, pieces were found. A number of the seals and produced over 800 ostraca, 189 of were on door frames; others were on papyrus documents, boxes and contain- which are published in this volume. While the first volume of Ostraca de Kro- ers. Some were inscribed with geometric patterns, hieroglyphs and names. kodilô concerns military correspondence, this second volume contains private These included the names of kings, local departments of the main Egyptian letters exchanged between the inhabitants of Krokodilo and the neighbor- institutions (such as the treasury, the granaries, the wdja-stores and the ing forts. This rich corpus gives us a glimpse of the daily life in a society of department of labor); and even the titles and names of officials. Some of the some 200 people who lived in the desert garrisons at the beginning of the seals had been sent from neighboring fortresses. This remarkable collection 2nd century AD, and who appear in the ostraca. We are able to witness the has enabled us to study the organization of a mnnw, Mirgissa/Iqen, during importance of solidarity in this hostile environment and the important role of the Middle Kingdom, as well as its links with other Nubian fortresses or the civilians, not least the women, in the life around the forts. French text. Theban region. French text. 304p, 54 illus (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, June 2019, Fouilles 520p (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, March 2019, Fouilles de l’Institut de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 81) hardcover, 9782724707359, français d’archéologie orientale 80) hardcover, 9782724707335, $111.00. $72.00. Special Offer $58.00 Special Offer $89.00
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La vaisselle en pierre Qasr Ibrim: The Ottoman Period des reines de Pépy Ier by John Alexander by Anne Minault-Gout and William Y. Adams In the cemetery of the family of King This volume completes the documentation Pepy I of the 6th Dynasty (c. 2330-2280), of excavations at the Nubian site of Qasr the French-Swiss archaelogical Mission of Ibrim conducted by the Egypt Explora- Saqqâra has uncovered eight pyramidal tion Society, continuing the tradition of complexes of queens from the end of the documenting the history and archaeology Old Kingdom. This book presents a study of the site phase-by-phase. It carries the and a catalog of some of their mate- story forward to the final abandonment of rial, including stone vessels—usually the site in AD 1812, the period when Lower fragmentary and sometimes inscribed, series of models, dummy vases with Nubia was annexed to the Ottoman Empire, and an Ottoman garrison was symbolic function, containers for food offerings, as well as other items of fu- installed at Qasr Ibrim. Part I deals with the historical record of the site, based neral equipment. The stones encountered are mainly calcite (or travertine, or on archival sources, Part II presents the archaeological evidence, followed in Egyptian alabaster), gneiss, greywacke, limestone. A wide variety of shapes Part III by brief summaries on the Ottoman period artifacts found at the site, appears, including large inscribed jars, refined cups, shapes well attested in particular pottery, basketry, and textiles. in the 6th dynasty and vases much older than the 6th dynasty. The models 184p, 39 b/w illus, 21 col & 8 b/w pls (Egypt Exploration Society, March 2019, reveal a permanence of the shapes compared to those of the previous periods, Excavation Memoir 113) paperback, 9780856982262, $102.00. and it is in the material of the queens of Pepy I that the cases of food offerings Special Offer $82.00 of real size, some in calcite, appear for the first time in a royal equipment. French text. Who Was Who in Egyptology 352p (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, July 2019, Mémoires publiés Fifth Revised Edition par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 141) hardcover, by Morris L. Bierbrier 9782724707267, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 The civilization of ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination for explorers and Les Textes de la Pyramide scholars for centuries and has occupied de Mérenrê a special place in the imagination of Édition, transcription et analyse the public ever since the early travel- by Isabelle Pierre-Croisiau ers’ accounts of this culture of temples, tombs and hieroglyphs began to circulate Following the model of the former publi- around the world. Egyptology in the cation of Pepy Ist’s Pyramid Texts (MIFAO 21st century is a multi-disciplinary science practiced by specialists across 118/1–2), this book offers facsimiles of the globe. The story of its development from a hobby for the educated and every inscribed wall of Merenre’s Pyramid. wealthy to a highly formalised academic discipline provides the key to under- A description of the walls (funerary standing how and why we know what we know about ancient Egypt. Who chamber, antechamber, passages, corri- Was Who in Egyptology remains one of the most important reference works dor and vestibule) and an analysis of their for understanding the characters that contributed to the field of Egyptology composition are added. A translation of the 51 new spells (PT 1101–1151) is and Egyptian archaeology from the 16th century through to the present day. also proposed. The publication contains a text volume and a box set with 34 This biographical dictionary tells their story and will be an indispensable ref- facsimiles. French text. erence tool for scholars and enthusiasts alike. The fifth, revised, and expanded 2 vols, 356p, 34 pls (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, December 2019, edition brings entries up to 2019, while further information and images have Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale been added to numerous previous entries. 140) hardcover, 9782724707243, $176.00. Special Offer $141.00 510p, b/w illus (Egypt Exploration Society, November 2019) hardcover, 9780856982422, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 13 Ancient Egyptian Biographies Journal of the American Contexts, Forms, Functions Research Center in Egypt, edited by Julie Stauder-Porchet, Volume 55 (2019) Elizabeth Frood and Andréas edited by Emily Teeter Stauder Contents: Classification of a Funerary (Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Model: The Rendering of Accounts Egyptian written discourse that was Theme; Neue Beispiele für die Elision central to high culture from its earliest von h im Ägyptischen - ein Zwischenb- periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, ericht; Compositional Format and Spell these texts present aspects of individual Sequencing in Early Versions of the lives and experience, sometimes as nar- Book of the Dead; Dental Prosthesis: ratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Postmortem Treatment of Oral Reconstruction during the Mummification Egyptian (auto-)biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in Process; An Unpublished Stela of Nedjesankh/Iew and His Family (CG 20394/ which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance JE 15107); Two Unpublished Sphinxes of Amenemhat V and Ramses II; Writing of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. This volume brings Practices in El-Lahun Papyri during the Middle Kingdom; The Block Statue of together specialists from a range of periods, approaches, and interests. They Djedhor son of Tjanefer (Cairo JE 37200); Ancient Egyptian Image-Writing: examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspec- Between the Unspoken and Visual Poetics; Whose Error Anyway? Epigraphic tives: anthropological and contrastive perspectives; the original Old Kingdom and Orthographic Variation in a Book of the Earth as Evidence for Multiple settings; text format and language; social dimensions; and religious experience. Master Documents in the Sarcophagus Chamber of Ramesses; Antidotes 352p (Lockwood Press, April 2020, Wilbour Studies in Egyptology and and Counter-Poisons in the Ancient World: Onions (HDw) (Allium cepa L.) in Assyriology 6) hardcover, 9781948488280, $89.95. Special Offer $72.00 Egypt, the Preferred Antitoxic for Snake Bites; Hatshepsut’s Punt Reliefs: Their PDF e-book, 9781948488303, $72.00 Structure and Function; Book Reviews. 214p (Lockwood Press, November 2019) paperback, 9781948488150, $70.00. Palamedes Special Offer $56.00 A Journal of Ancient History, Volume 12 (2017/2018) Journal of the Canadian edited by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò Society of Coptic Studies 11 Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History (2019) is published on behalf of the University of edited by Jitse Dijkstra Warsaw. It seeks to provide a forum where, Contents: Touring a Holy Land: Symbolic within the frames of cultural history Geography and Travel in Late-Antique broadly defined, ancient historians, classical Egypt; The Anthropology of Christian philologists, archaeologists, jurists, and Pilgrimage: The Broadening Out of a epigraphists—in a word all those who study Field; The Apophthegmata Patrum: Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifes- Three Notes; God Is in the Marshes: tations—can meet with their Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts. Late-Antique Asceticism and the Contents: From Edom to Idumea; Spuma lunaris. Bringing the Moon Down to Northeastern Nile Delta; St. Thecla and the Art of Her Pilgrims: Towards an Earth, Extraction of ‘Moon Foam’ and Its Use in Ancient Magic; Dancing, Dec- Autonomous Feminine Aesthetic Praxis; The Monastery of the Syrians as a lamation, and Deipnosophistry in the Deiotariana; Ex amicis divi Augusti: P. Pilgrimage Destination; Xenodochia in the Pilgrimage Sites and Egyptian Vedius Pollio; Salvia Marcellina and the Collegium of Aesculapius and Hygia in Monasteries from the Sixth to the Ninth Centuries: Survey of Literary and Rome; ILat Novae 39: A New Interpretation of the Titulus Pictus from Novae. Archaeological Sources. 176p (Lockwood Press, January 2020) paperback, 9781937040734, $60.00. 134p (Lockwood Press, March 2019) paperback, 9781948488129, $50.00. Special Offer $48.00 Special Offer $40.00
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The Abu Bakr Cemetery Tradition and Transformation at Giza in Ancient Egypt by Tohfa Handoussa Proceedings of the Fifth International and Edward Brovarski Congress for Young Egyptologists The present volume reflects the work of 15–19 September, 2015, Vienna the joint expedition of Cairo University edited by Andrea Kahlbacher and Brown University to record and and Elisa Priglinger publish the tombs uncovered on behalf In the study of ancient cultures and of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel- civilizations, the questions about what Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through remains and what is changing are always 1953, but never published. The loss of of great importance. It is the attempt to field records and lack of a map of the site meant that new, salvage excava- get a deeper understanding of the life and thinking of our ancestors. Cultural tion had to be undertaken. A total of six seasons, from 2000-2006 resulted in changes are dynamic processes and can be caused by developments in tech- the clearing, remapping, and recording of the monuments in the cemetery. nology, political and religious ideas or substantial experiences with diverse Abu Bakr Cemetery is of particular interest because the majority of mastaba societies or environmental factors. Because of this sheer panoply of possible tombs belong to relatively low-ranking individuals. Thus they have the causes, one seeks to understand transformation in ancient Egypt by asking a potential to she light on the social status of Egypt’s working classes. series of essential questions: what is the nature of a particular change, when 700p (Lockwood Press, March 2020, Wilbour Studies in Egyptology and and where did it come about, through what agency, for what purpose, which Assyriology 5) hardcover, 9781948488020, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 parts of Egyptian society did it affect, and how lasting were its consequences? PDF e-book, 9781948488037, $120.00 In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to involve as many different cultural aspects as possible. Ägypten und Levante / Egypt 300p (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, January 2019, Contributions to the and the Levant XXVIII (2018) Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 6) paperback, 9783700180050, Contents include: Egyptian Salvage $167.00. Special Offer $134.00 Excavations at Tell el-Mansheya; Prelimi- Scribes nary Report on the Investigation of a Late Les artisans du texte de l’Égypte Period Tomb with Aramaic Inscription at el- Sheikh Fadl/Egypt; From Akko/Acco to Beit ancienne (1550–1000) She’an/Beth Shan in the Late Bronze Age; by Chloé Ragazzoli More Stone Objects from the so-called Did the Egyptians invent bureaucracy? Governor Palace at Tell Basta; On Simple As agents of the institutional control of House Architecture at Tell el-Dab’a and its activities, scribes played a prominent role Parallels in the Late Middle Kingdom; Kushites Expressing ‘Egyptian’ Kingship: and formed a social category with its own Nubian Dynasties in Hieroglyphic Texts and a Phantom Kushite King; Natural values and language. In order to trace the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt: from Emulations of Monarchs to Royal Burials; entire history of this environment and Roads from Bahariya to Faiyum: A Study in Remotely Sensed Data; The Heri- these men, the book uses archeological and tage of the A-Group. A Chronological and Cultural Re-Investigation; Relative textual sources in which scribes showed their skills and literary knowledge. Sea Level Variations at Alexandria (Nile Delta, Egypt) over the Last Millennia: The investigation looks at the scribe’s hand on the manuscript, his writing, ink Archaeological Implications for the Ancient Harbour; Tortypologie befestigter on papyrus, where variation and compilation from memory play an important Anlagen. Erarbeitung anhand altägyptischer Tore des Mittleren bis Neuen role. Scribes are an intermediary elite which is the only instance capable of Reiches; Agriculture and Storage Practices in an Early Iron Age Household; Tell initiating and operating the political and state machinery. In a word: how a el-Dab’a and Byblos. English, French, and German text. literate knowledge holds an Empire, and even more, its memory. French text. 505p (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, March 2019) paperback, 720p (Les Belles Lettres, November 2019) paperback, 9782251449975, $44.00. 9783700184225, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 Special Offer $36.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 15 Yale Egyptology — Franz Steiner Verlag
An Archaeology Ägyptologische ‘Binsen’- of Egyptian Monasticism Weisheiten III Settlement, Economy and Daily Life Formen und Funktionen von at the White Monastery Federation Zeichenliste und Paläographie by Louise Blanke edited by Svenja A. Gülden, Kyra van The White Monastery in Upper Egypt der Moezel and Ursula Verhoeven and its two federated communities are The third international and this time also among the largest, most prosperous and interdisciplinary conference of the series longest-lived loci of Coptic Christianity. “Ägyptologische ‘Binsen’-Weisheiten” dealt Founded in the fourth century and best with methodological and content-related known for its zealous and prolific third questions of character analysis and edition abbot, Shenoute of Atripe, these monasteries have survived from their foun- of hieroglyphic and cursive sources. The volume comprises eleven contribu- dation in the golden age of Egyptian Christianity until today. At its peak in the tions on the writing culture of Ancient Egypt from the Old Empire to the fifth to the eighth centuries, the White Monastery federation was a hive of late period. The topics are grouped around two focal points: the develop- industry, densely populated and prosperous. It was a vibrant community that ment, function and methodology of character lists, especially in digital form engaged with extra-mural communities by means of intellectual, spiritual, and with a view to the resulting challenges and analysis possibilities, and and economic exchange and a powerhouse of the regional economy. This new paleographic source studies on various writing media, on mutual influences study is an attempt to write the biography of the White Monastery federa- of Egyptian scripts and on handwritten idiosyncrasies that can lead to the tion, to reconstruct its longue durée—through archaeological and textual identification of individual writers. German text. sources—and to assess its place within the world of Late Antiquity. 332p (Franz Steiner Verlag, January 2019, Abhandlungen der Akademie der 244p, 81 b/w illus, 7 tbls, 11 col pls (Yale Egyptology, August 2019, Yale Wissenschaften und der Literatur 15) paperback, 9783515122658, $48.00. Egyptological Publications 2) hardcover, 9781950343003, $40.00. Special Offer $39.00 Special Offer $32.00; PDF e-book, 9781950343102, $32.00 Cult and Ritual Ritual Landscape in Persian Period Egypt and Performance An Analysis of the Decoration Proceedings of the International of the Cult Chapels of the Temple Conference on Ritual Landscape of Hibis at Kharga Oasis and Performance, Yale University, by Fatma Talaat Ismail September 23–24, 2016 This book focuses on the decorative edited by Christina Geisen schemes of several chapels in the earlier The various articles of these conference part of the temple, chapels that were proceedings discuss the use of ritual land- either established and/or were decorated scape from the Old to the New Kingdom of during the first Persian Period (525–404 Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape BCE). These chapels were located around the main sanctuary A, but have archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, rarely been the subject of scholarly discussions. It concentrates on a few as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of chapels of the Temple of Hibis: chapels F and G to the south of sanctuary A on desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environ- the first level of the temple and all the decorated chapels on the second level ments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of of the temple. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the scenes and landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt. their basic layout and a complete translation of the accompanying texts. 224p, 44 col & 25 b/w illus (Yale Egyptology, March 2020, Yale Egyptological 288p, 45 b/w illus, 20 pages of col pls (Yale Egyptology, October 2019, Yale Studies 13) paperback, 9781950343126, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 Egyptological Studies 12) paperback, 9781950343096, $50.00. PDF e-book, 9781950343133, $40.00 Special Offer $40.00; PDF e-book, 9781950343119, $40.00
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Towards a History of Egyptology Proceedings of the Egyptological Section of the 8th ESHS Conference in London, 2018 edited by Hana Navratilova, Thomas L. Gertzen, Aidan Dodson and Andrew Bednarski Ancient Egypt has for centuries occupied a prominent place in popular imaginations and scholarly research agendas. While our knowledge of the civilization of the pharaohs has vastly increased and improved over the past two hundred years, our under- standing of what actually constitutes what we call ‘Egyptology’ remains elusive. This volume explores various approaches to the study of Egyptology’s history and the interdependencies of scholarship and politics. It represents an important step in the evolution of a newly developing dialogue: one that sees the study of ancient Egypt brought more closely in line with modern debates on the construction of knowledge, disciplinary formation, and the importance of ancient history to modern societies. 304p (Zaphon, December 2019, Investigatio Orientis 4) hardcover, 9783963270802, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00
100 Highlights of the Bernard V. Bothmer, Oriental Institute Museum Egyptologist in the Making, 1912 through July 1946 edited by Jean M. Evans, Jack Green and Emily Teeter With Bothmer’s Own Account of His Escape from Central Europe in This special edition of Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute October 1941 Museum commemorates the 2019 by Marianne Eaton-Krauss centennial of the Oriental Institute This biography follows Bothmer’s career and presents 100 highlights from an- from his birth to his service in the US Army cient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, until August 1946, when he was able to the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia resume his Egyptological career. The study in the collections. is based on family correspondence, Bothmer’s own diaries and documents 152p, 140 illus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, September 2019) from archives in Boston, New York, Milan and Basel. hardcover, 9781614910480, $79.95. Special Offer $64.00 174p (Zaphon, August 2019, Investigatio Orientis 3) hardcover, 9783963270482, $83.00. Special Offer $67.00 Discovering New Pasts The OI at 100 Representing the Wise edited by Theo van den Hout A Gendered Approach Proceedings of the 1st Melammu In celebration of the Oriental In- stitute’s centennial year, over sixty Workshop. Lille, 4–5 April 2016 different authors and contributors edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz have come together to provide and Sebastian Fink a personalized history of the OI’s The first of the Melammu Workshops askes work past and present. Explore the how female and male representatives of legacy of James Henry Breasted and the institute he founded. Discover the the wise, female and male sages, were inner workings of the OI and its museum. Travel across multiple continents conceptualized in antiquity and whether to learn about groundbreaking research. Enjoy a unique collection of nearly there was a clear difference between fe- six hundred images, all in one publication for the first time. Learn the story male and male wisdom. The papers brought to light several tensions among of the institute’s development to becoming one of the world’s preeminent which the question of gender was not the least. authorities on over ten thousand years of human civilization. 206p (Zaphon, October 2019, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 1) 428p, 584 mostly col illus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, hardcover, 9783963270680, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 September 2019) hardcover, 9781614910497, $133.95. Special Offer $108.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 17 Vocalisation in Group Writing Memphis in der A New Proposal Dritten Zwischenzeit by Marwan Kilani Eine Studie zur (Selbst-)Repräsentation The so-called group writing or syllabic von Eliten in der 21. und 22. Dynastie orthography is a special orthography used by Claus Jurman in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts starting This book is concerned with the monumen- from the New Kingdom. The nature and tal display of different aspects of identity function of this orthography, especially and personhood by members of the local the way it notates vowels, has been a elite in the ancient Egyptian metropolis of topic of debate for more than a century. In Memphis during the 21st and the first half this book, Marwan Kilani presents a new of the 22nd Dynasty. Whilst based on a cor- interpretative model that provides a fresh explanation of how the syllabic pus of 114 individual artifacts, the study aims at providing a holistic and fully orthography notates vowels. The author starts from a critical reanalysis of contextualized perspective on the history of Memphis and its inhabitants dur- previous suggestions and from a thorough reassessment of the evidence. He ing the Third Intermediate Period and the periods that immediately precede then infers the functioning of the system by comparing the group writing and follow it. Accordingly, the book’s methodological scope and toolkit are spelling of Late Egyptian words surviving in Coptic with the reconstructions multifaceted, giving due attention to traditional historical and archaeological of their vocalizations. This approach leads to the recognition of a system that inquiries, but also following avenues informed by art historical, philological, not only coherently explains all the spellings attested in the corpus, but which prosopographical, sociological and anthropological approaches. At the book’s also produces interpretations of the spellings in group writing that agree with heart lies a detailed study of the primary sources, which are meticulously current reconstructions of the Egyptian vocalization. contextualized in order to facilitate the integration of micro- and macro- 150p (Widmaier Verlag, December 2019, Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica perspectives. The analyses are complemented by prosopographical dossiers, 20) paperback, 9783943955200, $55.00. Special Offer $44.00 an extensive plate section and genealogical charts. German text. 2 vols, 1678p (Widmaier Verlag, February 2020) hardcover, 9783943955613, Lingua Aegyptia 27 (2019) $382.00. Special Offer $306.00 Contents: From Etymology to Diachrony. The Semantics of hwj ‘to protect’ in Old Eléments de la terminologie Egyptian and Bedouin Arabic; Ein neues du temps en égyptien ancien System zur graphematischen Translitera- Une étude de sémantique lexicale tion der altägyptischen Hieroglyhenschrift; en diachronie Zur Genese des präteritalen sdm=f des by Gaëlle Chantrain Neuägyptischen; Geographical Verbal Variation in Dendera. An Exploratory Study This book has a double scope: first, bring- in Verbal Variation between East and West ing a contribution to the knowledge and in Offering Texts from Graeco-Roman understanding of the time conceptions in Temples in Dendera; Ist hsjw-mw “Wasserzauber” ein ‘Älteres Kompositum’? Ancient Egypt through a lexical study and, Untersuchungen zu einem terminus technicus der ägyptischen lingua magica; second, contributing to the definition of a Some Notes Concerning the Texts on the Two Brothers’ Coffins in Context; methodological frame for lexical seman- Zum Augment neuägyptischer Verbalformen; Coptic Circumstantial Periph- tics in Ancient Egyptian. The first part of the core study aims at establishing rasis; Where Syntax and Semantics Meet. A Typological Investigation of Old a proposition of canvas for the semasiology of nouns. It also presents the Egyptian Causatives; The So-Called Prothetic i- and the sdm-f Paradigms; semasiological analysis of eight lexemes belonging to the unbounded time Miscellanies. English and German text. domain. The second part is dedicated to the onomasiology of the unbounded 260p (Widmaier Verlag, December 2019) hardcover, 9783943955675, $138.00. time domain, as well as some of its connections with some contiguous Special Offer $111.00 domains like space. French text. 344p (Widmaier Verlag, January 2020, Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica 21) paperback, 9783943955217, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00
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Studien zur Altägyptischen Zeit in den Kulturen Kultur Band 48 (2019) des Altertums edited by Jochem Kahl Antike Chronologie im Spiegel and Nicole Kloth der Quellen Contents: Face to face: Meetings between edited by Roland Färber the kings of Egypt, Hatti and their vassals and Rita Gautschy in the Levant during the Late Bronze Age; This volume sheds light on the understand- Renaming the Queens, A New Read- ing and handling of time in ancient cul- ing for the Crossed Arrows Sign and a tures. If time is viewed as a social construct Religious Approach to the Early Dynastic and not just as a physical fact, chronologi- Onomastics; The multiple connotations of cal concepts, systems, and practices can Pataikos amulets in the Aegean; The lost fragment of the Book of the Dead of provide important insights into the self-understanding and functioning of the priest of Montu in Thebes Khamhor C - P. Cairo JE 95703 (SR IV 633); The societies. The focus is on 60 sources from ancient Egypt, the Near East, and Inscriptions of the Newly Discovered Temple of Ptolemy II at Gebel el-Nour; the Greek and Roman worlds, dating from the 3rd millennium BC to Christian The funerary papyri of the brothers Djedher and Pakherkhonsu in the Museo Late Antiquity. The spectrum ranges from paintings and reliefs, literary texts Egizio and the British Museum with some observations on scribal practices; and documents, to instruments and buildings, including both well-known ex- About the discovery and exploration of Tell el-Amarna in the 18th century amples and hitherto little-noticed favorite items of the authors. German text. until the eve of the First World War; Analysis of a painted female head among 576p (Böhlau Verlag, March 2020) hardcover, 9783412518158, $88.00. the pottery decoration from the monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad Special Offer $71.00 (Asyut); Osiris-Canope: du dieu agraire au patron des ports de égypte ro- maine; The channels in the Pyramid of Cheops: Air shafts, model corridors or Ägypten und Arabien routes to the stars?; The herpetological identification of Uraeus; The Funerary Ein Beitrag zu den interkulturellen Papyrus of Nxt DHwty (P. Cairo JE.26231); Imaginary Histories: Ancient Egypt Beziehungen Altägyptens in the writings of Marguerite Yourcenar and Philippe Derchain; Protection of the Sunrise: Shu, Tefnut and Re in the Pyramid Texts; The Inscribed Lintel of by Gunnar Sperveslage Herti / Senti Discovered Recently at Saqqara; The Pakhet of Speos Artemidos Egyptian finds from various archaeological and Wadi Batn el-Baqara. English and French text. sites in the Arabian Peninsula as well as 318p (Helmut Buske Verlag, October 2019) hardcover, 9783875489637, epigraphic sources paint a differentiated $267.00. Special Offer $214.00 picture of the contacts between Egypt and Arabia in pre-Islamic times. For the first time, this study deals with those in detail, Naga Skulptur putting them into an overall context. by Dietrich Wildung Contacts existed at least since the Middle Kingdom, and date well into to the By the diversity and the undisturbed Roman era. The excavations in Tayma and Qaryat al-Faw in particular have context of the findings, the excavations provided interesting material. Not only Egyptian objects in the form of amu- conducted by the State Museum of Egyptian lets and scarabs have been found in settlement as well as in grave contexts, Art Munich at the Meroitic city Naga in the but also motif adaptations in the religious field. The Egyptian influence on Sudan have become a reference parameter the oases, which were economic centers with multicultural populations along for other archaeological sites in the Sudan. the incense road and maintained contacts with the different neighboring German text. cultures, becomes tangible in many ways. Diachronous development reveals 279p (Ugarit-Verlag, September 2019, that in the early Iron Age, Egyptian objects in particular arrived in Arabia, Archäologie im Sudan 1) hardcover, whereas in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. increasingly motives and 9783868353051, $122.00. Special Offer $98.00 local adaptations of Egyptian elements can be observed. German text. 482p (Ugarit-Verlag, October 2019, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 420) hardcover, 9783868351552, $181.00. Special Offer $145.00
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Movement and Mobility The Abridged Book of the Dead Between Egypt and the Scroll of Pa-sheri-Khonsu Southern Levant in the by Irmtraut Munro Second Millennium BCE and Günther Vittmann edited by Susan L. Cohen In the late 25th Dynasty ancient Egyptian and Matthew J. Adams theologians began systematic research The second millennium BCE saw increased and investigation and profoundly revised interactions and interconnections the contents of the Book of the Dead, now between Egypt and the regions of the known by Egyptologists as the ‘Saite recen- southern Levant. Mobility and movement sion’. The priests established an obligatory between and among these regions were canonized consecutive sequence of 165 key factors in the exchange of ideas, technologies, and values and, therefore, spells, which were methodically selected for their substantial coherence. were essential components of the evolution of both societies. The archaeological Besides ideally conceived complete Book of the Dead manuscripts, however, record provides a wealth of material for reconstructing expressions of cultures, there is also a group of manuscripts preserved which reflect the key topics of identities, status, and economic ways of life based on questions of mobility. a Book of the Dead in abridged form, only consisting of a reduced number Contents: Introduction; Late Bronze Age Production, Use, and Exchange of of apparently intentionally selected spells. Pa-sheri-Khonsu is one example Luxury Vases; The Expulsion of the Hyksos and the End of the Middle Bronze of this group. The research will show which topics in the Book of the Dead Age; Mid-to-Late 18th Dynasty Egyptian Functionaries Serving in the South- were considered indispensable for ensuring a safe passageway into the ern Levant; Egyptian Worshippers in Canaanite Sanctuaries; Archaeological netherworld. Furthermore, the papyrus has a Demotic colophon specify- Evidence for the Presence of Egyptians in the Southern Levant During the Late ing genealogical and occupational information about the papyrus owner. A Bronze Age; Identifying the Lachish of Papyrus Hermitage 1116A verso and thorough study links the papyrus to a well-dated document and supports its the Amarna Letters. dating, which was provided by stylistic and technical analyses. 105p (University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, March 2019, Journal of 116p, 39 illus, 13 col pls (Orientverlag G. Lapp, April 2019, Beiträge zum Alten Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 21) paperback, 9781072075790, $49.50. Ägypten 9) paperback, 9783905719314, $89.00. Special Offer $72.00 Special Offer $40.00 Die Luft- und Wassersprüche Interconnections in (Tb 38, 54–63) Greco-Roman Egypt by Barbara Lüscher edited by John Bauschatz Volume 11 of the synoptic text edition of For centuries, the ancient Egyptian the Book of the Dead of the New Kingdom and Greco-Roman worlds collided, (Totenbuchtexte) deals with Spells 38 and intermingled, and engaged. The papers 54–63 of this religious text corpus. The collected in this thematic special issue common theme of this group of spells is address some aspects of the wide range the availability of air and water in the af- of interactions that rook place during terlife. The parallel versions are presented Egypt’s ca. 300-year-long Ptolemaic pe- in hieroglyphic script. German text. riod and its subsequent annexation by 188p (Orientverlag G. Lapp, December 2019, Totenbuchtexte 11) paperback, Rome. Distinctly Egyptian but clearly influenced by Greek and Roman mores, 9783905719277, $83.00. Special Offer $67.00 the era of the Greek pharaohs and their Imperial Roman successors were just as remarkable as that of the pharaohs of old. 173p (University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition, September 2019, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 23) paperback, 9781692848231, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1571–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 21 Kelsey Museum Publications — PeWe-Verlag Equinox Publishing — Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Graffiti as Devotion along Merenptah V the Nile and Beyond Konservierungsarbeiten und edited by Geoff Emberling Herrichtung des Grabungsplatzes and Suzanne Davis by Horst Jaritz, Andreas Arnold, Graffiti—unsanctioned marks in public Markus Blödt, Oskar Emmenegger, built spaces—are increasingly recognized Andreas Küng and Konrad Zehnder as worthy of study in contexts both ancient Within the framework of the 1971–2002 and modern. For ancient societies, graffiti follow-up investigations of Merenptah’s are personal expressions that are otherwise House of a Million Years in Thebes/Luxor rare in the archaeological and historical re- (Egypt), first examined by W. M. Flinders cord. This volume is focused around a group Petrie (1896), this volume reports in of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 by an archaeological its first part on the restoration of the newly uncovered ruins, including its project of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, at the site of El-Kurru. remaining architectural fragments and statues, as an open-air museum open Located in northern Sudan, El-Kurru was a royal pyramid burial ground of to the public. The complex also includes the construction of an archaeological kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Essays present the site museum, which displays fragments of the temple’s decoration and furnish- of El-Kurru and its graffiti in historical context. Chapters discuss the history of ings. The second part of the volume presents the efforts and preliminary Kush, ancient graffiti in a funerary temple and medieval graffiti on a pyramid investigations undertaken by various institutions and laboratories, which at El-Kurru, and graffiti at other sites in Kush and Egypt and beyond. Other finally made it possible to restore and conserve largely all the components chapters discuss the rock art of Sudan and methods used for the conserva- and statues found. German text. tion and documentation of graffiti at El-Kurru. The volume concludes with an 272p (PeWe-Verlag, April 2019, Beiträge zur ägyptischen Bauforschung und annotated catalog of graffiti from El-Kurru. Altertumskunde 21) hardcover, 9783935012348, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 212p (Kelsey Museum Publications, August 2019, Kelsey Museum Publication 16) paperback, 9780990662396, $39.00. Special Offer $32.00 Shepheard’s of Cairo The Birth of the Historical Consciousness Oriental Grand Hotel and the Use of the Past by Tarek Ibrahim in the Ancient World Few buildings reflect the waxing and edited by John Baines, Henriette waning of European influence in Egypt van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen during the 19th and 20th centuries and Tim Rood as profoundly as Shepheard's Hotel in This volume offers linked essays on uses of Cairo. Until recently, a scholarly analysis the past in prominent and diverse cultures and documentation on the architecture in ancient civilizations across the world of Shepheard's Hotel has been cursory and addresses crucial questions in current at best due the near total absence of primary visual material. Thanks to a scholarship on historical consciousness and spectacular discovery at Grünsberg Castle near Nuremberg, Germany, primary historiography. These questions include the formation of different traditions visual material of the building - including original floor plans, correspon- and the manifold uses of the past in particular socio-political contexts; the dence, sketches and photographs - has come to light. More than merely ways in which these traditions contributed to the rise of more formal modes of lodging, Shepheard's made design a destination and allowed visitors to step historiography; interactions between formal modes of historiography and other through the looking glass into a fantastic recreation of the wonders along traditions of historical consciousness; and the implications of such interactions the banks of the Nile, quickly becoming an essential part of the grand tour in for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later understandings of history. Egypt for well-heeled travelers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 340p, 32 b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, January 2019) hardcover, 120p (Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, December 2019, Menschen – Reisen – 9781781796566, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Forschungen 5) hardcover, 9783954903689, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00
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‘The Perfection that Endures…’ The Pyramid Complex Studies in Old Kingdom of Amenemhat I at Lisht Art and Archaeology The Architecture edited by Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, by Dieter Arnold Edyta Kopp and Dániel Takács Lisht, twenty miles south of Cairo, has Contents: Broken for the afterlife: Depo- been the site of excavations since its sitional and post-depositional processes discovery in 1906, and since that time in the shaft of Princess Sheretnebty’s scholars at the Metropolitan Museum husband; Society and iconography: On the have published several volumes about sociological analysis of iconographic pro- this Middle Kingdom site. This new book grams of Old Kingdom elite tombs; Grain in the series focuses on the architecture of storage in the Old Kingdom: Relation between an object and its image; Creat- the pyramid complex of King Amenemhat I, which was built on a foundation ed for eternity: Statues and serdabs in the late Fifth Dynasty tombs at Abusir using Old Kingdom blocks. The publication brings together new informa- South; The art and artifice of the hieroglyphs of Akhmim in the Old Kingdom; tion obtained from numerous expeditions and many years of research and Vanquishing the beast: Hippopotami hunting scenes in Old Kingdom tombs; analysis, and includes photographs from the original finding in the early 20th The Giza Necropolis – early influences: Meidum, Dahshur, and Saqqara; The century as well as new, unpublished drawings of wall reliefs and inscriptions. names of Menkaure; The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty according Documenting an area of excavation in Egypt that has suffered recent damage to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca; Old Kingdom wooden statues and beyond; The and continues to be threatened, this book provides indispensable insight to god Weneg and the wng-plant in the Old Kingdom; The Egyptian annexa- students and scholars of Egyptian archaeology and architecture. tion of Dakhleh Oasis: New evidence from Mut al-Kharab; Old Kingdom royal 184p, 41 col & 206 b/w illus (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2016, funerary domains: a question of usurpation?; The governors of Elephantine Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 29) and their funerary complexes in Qubbet el-Hawa at the end of Sixth Dynasty; hardcover, 9781588396044, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 A unique burial of a father and a son: Niankhpepy the Black and Pepyankh the Black; 3D reconstruction and interpretation of the ‘Cave’ of the Great Pyramid; Archaeological exploration of the mastaba of count Kakaibaef in The Pyramid Complex Abusir; The pyramids at Dahshur: The necessary innovations before pyramids’ of Amenemhat I at Lisht construction at Giza; The art in the tomb of Pepyankh the Middle: Innovation The Reliefs or copying?; A new Old Kingdom painting from the Eastern Necropolis at Giza; by Peter Jánosi On planning the apartments of the pyramids; New ankh-giving scenes from the pyramid complex of Djedkare; The ‘Dry Moat’: a new project; Old Kingdom This informative publication is a continu- stone sarcophagi as indicators of social change; Eyes, false doors and Pyramid ation of the series documenting The Met- Text 534 § 1266-1267; Residing in the provinces: The art and architecture of ropolitan Museum of Arts excavations at the Old Kingdom cemetery at Tehna in Middle Egypt; Sahure: rethinking the the Middle Kingdom Egyptian site at Lisht. pyramid complex; The Early Dynastic royal cemetery at Saqqara. This volume covers the relief decoration 375p, 103 pls (Agade Publishing, December 2018) hardcover, 9788394761202, from three different locations or structures. $95.00. Special Offer $76.00 These reliefs furnish a welcome addition to the little-known relief decoration of pyramid temples of the Middle Kingdom. Presenting previously unpublished materials and including informative, high Inscriptions from Lisht quality photographs of the relief blocks, this essential resource preserves the Texts from Burial Chambers decoration at this endangered historic site and makes substantial contributions by James P. Allen to the study of Middle Kingdom Egypt. 76p, 251 pls (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2020, Egyptian 338p, 173 col & b/w illus (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2016, Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 31) hardcover, Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 30) hardcover, 9781588397164, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 9781588396051, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00
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