| Description |
1 online resource (x, 124 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 46 |
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 46.
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration and Transcription; Introduction; Catalogue; Bibliography; Indices; Plates; Color Plates |
| Summary |
This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal exercises (Kemit), and copies of tomb inscriptions. Each ostracon is presented with photographs, facsimile drawings and hieroglyphic transcriptions, as well as translations and brief philological commentaries. Many of the texts can be linked to the village of Deir el-Medina on internal evidence, and the book offers new |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fitzwilliam Museum -- Catalogs
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| SUBJECT |
Fitzwilliam Museum fast |
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Ostraka -- Egypt -- Catalogs
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Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
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Didactic literature, Egyptian -- Translations into English
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Egyptian philology.
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REFERENCE.
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Antiquities
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Didactic literature, Egyptian
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Egyptian literature
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Egyptian philology
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Ostraka
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Egypt -- History -- New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C. -- Sources -- Catalogs
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Egypt -- Antiquities -- Catalogs
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Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt) -- Antiquities -- Catalogs
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Egypt
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Egypt -- Deir el-Medina Site
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs
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History
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010044683 |
| ISBN |
9789004182950 |
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9004182950 |
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9789004183766 |
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9004183760 |
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1283119536 |
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9781283119535 |
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9786613119537 |
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6613119539 |
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