Karanòg: Text
Author : Leonard Woolley
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
The Meroitic Language and Writing System
Author : Claude Rilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139560530
Book Description
This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. In addition to providing a full history of the script and an analysis of the phonology, grammar and linguistic affiliation of the language it features: linguistic analyses for those working on Nilo-Saharan comparative linguistics, paleographic tables useful to archaeologists for dating purposes and an overview of texts that can be translated or understood by way of analogy for those working on Nubian religion, history and archaeology.
Buhen: Text
Author : David Randall-MacIver
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Buhen (Egypt)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
Book Description
Meroitic Studies
Author : Nicholas B. Millet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1983-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 3112731093
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Meroitic Studies".
Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 B.C. - AD 250 and its Egyptian Models
Author : László Török
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004211292
Book Description
Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and “hybrid” elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.
Papyri Copticae Magicae
Author : Korshi Dosoo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 3111080102
Book Description
This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them – heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text.
Beiträge zur Sudanforschung
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sudan
ISBN :
Book Description
Ancient Nubia
Author : Marjorie M. Fisher
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1649033974
Book Description
A lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan and named a 2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration. Over the past century, particularly during this last generation, scholars have begun to focus more attention on the fascinating cultures of ancient Nubia, ironically prompted by the construction of large dams that have flooded vast tracts of the ancient land. This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and thereby to give us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author : American Oriental Society
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Oriental philology
ISBN :
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
