The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt
The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt

Author: Alexander J. Peden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9789004121126

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This book is the first overall attempt to offer insight into more than 2800 years of ancient Egyptian and Nubian hieroglyphic and hieratic graffiti. "a valuable guide to normal life and society in Ancient Egypt."

The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity
The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity

Author: John Coleman Darnell

Publisher: Saint-Paul

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 9783525530559

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In Egypt, from the Old to the New Kingdom, enigmatic texts were created on the basis of non-standardized lists of characters and phonetic signs, the exact principles of which are still unclear to this day. For the first time, this study examines in detail the three most comprehensive known inscription texts from the New Kingdom, which were discovered in the tombs of Tutenchamun, Ramses VI and Ramses IX. Darnell shows that these three texts have a theological, iconographic and formal connection, and calls them collectively the "Book of the Solar-Osirian Unity". Differentiated and lively, he presents the content and theological peculiarities of these texts that deal with the afterlife with each other and in relation to other enigmatic texts of the new as well as the Middle and Old Kingdom.

Ancient Egyptian Science
Ancient Egyptian Science

Author: Marshall Clagett

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9780871692146

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This volume, the first of three volumes describing the major facets of Ancient Egyptian Science, concentrates on the origin and development of hieroglyphic writing, the scribal profession, and quasi-learned institutions in ancient Egypt. Professor Clagett has paid particular attention to the so-called Palermo Stone, the earliest annals composed in Eygpt.

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

Author: John Bodel

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1118293525

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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself Examines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries