| Embalmers' Archives from Hawara Contributor(s): Reymond, Eve A. (Author), Barnes, W. B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0900416084 ISBN-13: 9780900416088 Publisher: Griffith Institute OUR PRICE: $57.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1973 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - Egypt |
| Series: Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the Ashmolean Museum |
| Physical Information: 169 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty-one demotic and four Greek legal texts, together with Greek subscriptions to the demotic texts, are published in this volume. All texts are presented in photographs accompanied by descriptions of the papyri on which they are written, palaeographical notes, transliteration, translation and commentary. Extensive introductory notes deal with the topography of Hawara and the organization and economy of the Hawara embalmers. |