Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt


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How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language itself, with reference to all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times.










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Hieratic Ostraca


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Toponymy on the Periphery


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"In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper conducts a study of the rich geographies preserved in Egyptian texts relating to the desert regions east of Egypt. These regions, filled with mines, quarries, nomadic camps, and harbours are often considered as an unimportant hinterland of the Egyptian state, but this work reveals the wide explorations and awareness Egyptians had of the Red Sea and its adjacent deserts, from the Sinai in the north to Punt in the south. The book attempts to locate many of the placenames present in Egyptian texts and analyse their etymology in light of Egyptian linguistics and the various foreign languages spoken in the adjacent deserts and distant shores of the Red Sea"--




Gizeh and Rifeh


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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by School of Archaelogy in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch in London, 1907.




Grain Transport in the Ramesside Period


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This catalogue is the definitive publication of a mid-20th Dynasty papyrus that was discovered in the necropolis of Assiut in the early 1880s. One half of it is in the British Museum (P. BM EA 10061), while the other half, previously published by Sir Alan Gardiner in his Ramesside Administrative Documents (Oxford 1948), is in the Amiens Museum. The two halves were identified as coming from the same roll by Professor Janssen in 1994, and he here presents a full hieroglyphic transcription, translation and commentary of the texts.