Ancient Records of Egypt: Supplementary bibliographies and indices
Ancient Records of Egypt: Supplementary bibliographies and indices

Author: James Henry Breasted

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780252069918

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An indispensable companion to any of the other volumes of Ancient Records of Egypt, the Supplementary Bibliographies and Indices facilitates direct access to specific information on the people, places, and inscriptions catalogued by James Henry Breasted. Exhaustively compiled and intelligently arranged, these indices include the kings and queens, temples and geographical locations, divine names, and titles and ranks encompassed by three thousand years of Egyptian history. Also provided are indices of all Egyptian, Hebrew, and Arabic terms mentioned in the texts, as well as a complete listing of the records with their location in Lepsius's Denkm ler. This first paperback edition of Ancient Records of Egypt features the important addition of bibliographies by Peter A. Piccione, together with an introduction that puts Breasted's historical commentaries into modern perspective. These bibliographies offer valuable guidance on new translations and modern treatments of the inscriptions included in Ancient Records of Egypt. Professor Piccione points the reader toward recent studies of Egyptian chronology and modern scholarship on Egyptian and Nubian history. He also provides information on anthologies of Egyptian texts in translation and topographical bibliographies that suggest further reading on specific ancient Egyptian monuments, texts, and reliefs.

Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art

Author: Gay Robins

Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM

Published: 2010-07-05

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0292755449

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This study of ancient Egyptian art reveals the evolution of aesthetic approaches to proportion and style through the ages. The painted and relief-cut walls of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record an amazing continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3,000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems unchanging, but this appearance is deceptive. In this work, Gay Robins offers convincing evidence, based on a study of Egyptian usage of grid systems and proportions, that innovation and stylistic variation played a significant role in ancient Egyptian art. Robins thoroughly explores the squared grid systems used by the ancient artists to proportion standing, sitting, and kneeling human figures. This investigation yields the first chronological account of proportional variations in male and female figures from the Early Dynastic to the Ptolemaic periods. Robins discusses the proportional changes underlying the revolutionary style instituted during the Amarna Period. She also considers how the grid system influenced the overall composition of scenes. Numerous line drawings with superimposed grids illustrate the text.

Joyful in Thebes
Joyful in Thebes

Author: Kathlyn M. Cooney

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1937040410

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An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes, a Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies, which often present unpublished material or new interpretations of specific issues in Egyptian history, literature, and art history, well reflect the broad research interests of the honoree. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, the volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Bryan's publications through 2015.

Illuminating Osiris
Illuminating Osiris

Author: Richard Jasnow

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1937040755

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Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.

Dating the Tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
Dating the Tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom

Author: Joyce Swinton

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1905739885

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The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. The system of dating these monuments presented here builds on the work of previous scholars. In this volume the author explains how the dating method was devised.

Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III

Author: David B. O'Connor

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780472088331

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A collection examining the roots of heresy on the Nile

The Art of Ancient Egypt
The Art of Ancient Egypt

Author: Gay Robins

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780674030657

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An illustrated history of over 3,000 years of Egyptian artwork arranged chronologically from the early dynastic period to the Ptolemaic period.

One Who Loves Knowledge
One Who Loves Knowledge

Author: Betsy Bryan

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2022-05-01

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1948488361

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The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends, and family in honor of Richard Jasnow, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Despite his claiming to be just a demoticist, Richard Jasnow's research interests and specialties are broad, spanning religious and historical topics, along with new editions of demotic texts, including most particularly the Book of Thoth. A number of the authors demonstrate their appreciation for Jasnow's contributions to the understanding of this difficult text. The volume also includes other studies on literature, Ptolemaic history, and even the god Thoth himself, and features detailed images and abundant hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Coptic, and Greek texts.

My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935
My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935

Author: Kathleen L. Sheppard

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1784917834

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Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams, the first American university-trained female Egyptologist, and James Henry Breasted, the first American Egyptologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, show that Ransom Williams had a full life and productive career as the first American female Egyptologist.