‎Egypt‎

‎Thompson Dorothy J.‎

‎MEMPHIS UNDER THE PTOLEMIES‎

‎Princeton University Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0691035938 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers to DJ and traces of removed circulation pastedown. A few cellotape stains to inner covers else Book is VG. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 376 pages; The city of Memphis on the Nile which had often served as capital in the long period preceding Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great became the country's "second city" following the founding of Alexandria. Drawing on archaeological findings and on an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence Dorothy Thompson examines the city's economic life and the character of its multi-racial society in the era from Alexander to Augustus. Memphis under the Ptolemies will interest students of intercultural relations and will be essential reading for Egyptologists papyrologists and historians of the Hellenistic world including those concerned with religion. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull deified as Osorapis became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure the Sarapieion is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures. . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6686 ISBN : 0691035938 9780691035932

‎West Louis Caulton & Allan Chester Johnson‎

‎CURRENCY IN ROMAN AND BYZANTINE EGYPT‎

‎A. M. Hakkert. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Very light browning to ffeps. Light fading to spine. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1944 Edition. ; 195 pages . A. M. Hakkert hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6179

‎Hazzard RA. R. A.‎

‎IMAGINATION OF A MONARCHY Studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda‎

‎University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0802043135 . Very slight shelfwear else Fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 300 pages; Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their superiors. Exactly when and how this change occurred has proven problematic for modern scholars. R. A. Hazzard argues that this change was put in motion by Ptolemy II who glorified his sister ArsinoT and made acceptable a civilian style of kingship based on piety towards his real and mythical ancestors. Ptolemy's support and elevation of his sister inspired the queens of the line to assert themselves at the expense of their male associates. The process culminated in the absolute rule of Kleopatra VII after 47 BC. Hazzard presents a clear argument based on the numismatic epigraphical papyrological literary and historical sources. . University of Toronto Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5992 ISBN : 0802043135 9780802043139

‎Grant Michael‎

‎CLEOPATRA‎

‎Barnes & Noble. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0880297255 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reprint of 1972 edition. Tells the story of the real queen of Egypt a woman thrust early into the violent and bitter politics of a declining kingdom at the mercy of a powerful and growing empire. ; 311 pages . Barnes & Noble hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6045 ISBN : 0880297255 9780880297257

‎Kammerer A.‎

‎ESSAI SUR L'HISTOIRE ANTIQUE D'ABYSSINIE Le Royaume D'Aksum Et Ses Voisins D'Arabie Et De Meroe. Avec 48 Planches Hors Texte Et 4 Cartes‎

‎Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. Very Good. 1926. Softcover. Wraps are protected in wax paper sleeve. Minor shelfwear. ; En fran�ais. ; 200 pages . Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 5933

‎Montet Pierre‎

‎LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE EN �GYPTE Au Temps Des Rams�s Xiiie-Xiie Si�cles Avant J. -C.‎

‎Librairie Hachette. Very Good. 1946. Softcover. Crease to spine. Wraps have minor shelfwear and rubbing. Scratches to bottom of back wrap. ; 348 pages . Librairie Hachette paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 5824

‎Boswinkel E. ; P. W. Pestman & H. A. Rupprecht Hrsg.‎

‎BERICHTIGUNGSLISTE DER GRIECHISCHEN PAPYRUSURKUNDEN AUS AGYPTEN Sechster VI / 6 Band‎

‎E. J. Brill. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 9004044841 . Bookshop stamps of E. J. Brill on titlepage and to textblock. Very light foxing to textblock and rubbing to upper corner of front board. Minor bump to heel of spine. ; Vol. 6; 260 pages; This volume lists in alphabetical order of papyri corrections of readings and datings of published documents as well as supplementary information as they have appeared in recent literature. The book also offers new readings and rejected readings of Greek words. . E. J. Brill hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5506 ISBN : 9004044841 9789004044845

‎Naville Edouard and F. Ll. Griffith‎

‎MOUND OF THE JEW AND THE CITY OF ONIAS. BELBIS SAMANOOD ABUSIR TUKH EL KARMUS 1887. AND THE ANTIQUITIES OF TELL EL YAH�D�YEH AND MISCELLANEOUS WORK IN LOWER EGYPT DURING THE YEARS 1887-1888 With Twenty-Six Plates.‎

‎Kegan Paul Trench Tr�bner & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. Heavily worn boards with rubbing. Spine has been reinforced/repaired with black library tape. Hinges cracked. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Book is complete. Slight foxing Fair to good condition. ; 76pp. 26 plates; Seventh Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 76 pages . Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr�bner & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 5260

‎Cory Alexander Turner‎

‎THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF HORAPOLLO NILOUS‎

‎William Pickering. Good. 1840. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with multiple library stamps scattered in text & call numbers to spine. Book has been rebound in blue buckram. Foxing to prelims. ; Text is in Ancient Greek and English Translation with additional text in Latin. ; 174 pages . William Pickering hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4494

‎Sauzeau Pierre & Thierry Van Compernolle Eds.‎

‎LES ARMES DANS L�ANTIQUIT�. DE LA TECHNIQUE � L�IMAGINAIRE Actes Du Colloque De SEMA Montpellier 20 Et 22 Mars 2003‎

‎CERCAM Publications De L�universit� Paul Val�ry - Montpellier III. Near Fine. 2007. Softcover. 2842697995 . Crease to back wrap else Fine. ; Outil de chasse ou de guerre de violence et de mort l�arme devient un objet de culture quand les peuples anciens cr�ent des armes solides ou complexes l�art de s�en servir et les r�gles de leur usage ; des armes de prestige ; des armes signes identitaires qui structurent la soci�t� des guerriers autour desquelles s�articule la citoyennet� qui participent de la l�gitimation du pouvoir de l�acte lib�rateur du tyrannicide. Des armes o� se refl�tent le cosmos et le monde des dieux � armes r�elles ou armes d�images et de po�sie. � d�faut d�une exhaustivit� encyclop�dique on pourra voir s�esquisser dans cet ouvrage o� se retrouvent linguistes litt�raires historiens historiens de l�art tous sp�cialistes des civilisations antiques quelques grandes lignes d�une histoire totale des armes anciennes histoire fondamentale pour concevoir la guerre dans l�Antiquit� mais qui d�borde de toutes parts l�histoire proprement militaire. ; 692 pages . CERCAM, Publications De L�universit� Paul Val�ry - Montpellier III paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 4044 ISBN : 2842697995 9782842697990

‎Clarke Somers & R. Engelbach‎

‎ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MASONRY The Building Craft‎

‎Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford. Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Top corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and extremities. ; A scarce and important work on the problems of stone construction in Ancient Egypt. ; 242 pages . Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 4207

‎Hunt Arthur S. & J. Gilbart Smyly & C. C. Edgar Eds.‎

‎THE TEBTUNIS PAPYRI Volume III Part II‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. 0901212830 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Corners are bumped. Front corners of book are edge-worn. Light Browning to ffeps. ; The Tebtunis papyri were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis which was led by the British papyrologists Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt was financed for the University of California by Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst. With Four Collotype Plates at end. ; University of California Publications Graeco-Roman Archaeology Volume IV. Egyptian Exploration Society; 345 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3749 ISBN : 0901212830 9780901212832

‎Bosayley Chater; with A Foreword by A. J. Arkell‎

‎GREEK INFLUENCE IN THE VALLEY OF THE BLUE NILE With a Survey of the Historical Backgrounds. with a Foreword by A. J. Arkell‎

‎Wad Medani Blue Nile. Good. 1945. Hardcover. Boards have come away from stapled textblock-- easily repaired if necessary. Signed by A. J. Arkell on inner cover of boards. Staples are rusted. Light pencil notes on a few pages. ; Sudan Historical Studies Note No. 1; 31 pages; Signed by One Author . hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3144

‎Ziegler Christiane et al.‎

‎LE LOUVRE: LES ANTIQUIT�S �GYPTIENNES I Guide Du Visiteur‎

‎R�union Des Mus�es Nationaux. Fine. 1997. Hardcover. 271183607X . 184 pages . R�union Des Mus�es Nationaux hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 3176 ISBN : 271183607X 9782711836079

‎Assmann Jan‎

‎HERRSCHAFT UND HEIL Politische Theologie in Alt�gypten Israel Und Europa‎

‎Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 3446198660 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear else fine. ; In German. Der renommierte �gyptologe Jan Assmann �ber die politische oder theoretische Legitimation von Herrschaft. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen �gyptens und Israels zeigen fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religi�sen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit Macht Solidarit�t Schuld Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt bevor sie ins Religi�se und Theologische transformiert wurden. ; 1.38 x 9.02 x 5.79 Inches; 338 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2905 ISBN : 3446198660 9783446198661

‎Springborg Patricia‎

‎ROYAL PERSONS Patriarchal Monarchy and the Feminine Principle‎

‎Unwin Hyman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0044453760 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear. ; Inscription on ffep by author. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 342 pages; It is the thesis of this book that the birth of the state usually associated with the emergence of the Greek "polis" can in fact be traced in the foundation myths and practices of the ancient Egyptian monarchy to which the feminine principle is crucial. The central significance of women is demonstrated through exploration of Egyptian Hittite Babylonian and other myths in which we have an account of the creation as a birth struggle. Creation ends with the enthronement of kings and and although from the beginning there is no doubt that the first monarchies were patriarchal the processes of empowerment were female. The powers of Hathor and Tiamat Ishtar and Anath reside in their reproductive capacities as powers of creativity of which the social power of kings is merely imitative. The form in which the institutional longevity of political office was first expressed was that of "twinning". This notion that the king had two bodies - one his mortal body and one his immortal "other" - can be seen in the concept of Greek "daimon" in the "genius" of the Roman Emperor and the "mystical body" of European Kings. It has its prototype in the pharaoh and his "ka". The "ka" as an imperishable "double" designated the corporate life of all social collectivities in ancient Egypt the basis perhaps for the "corporation" and its institutional "representative" in Roman Law and early modern political theory. It seems that the ancient monarchy may have represented a real altenative to the hegemonic male warrior "polis" to which we owe so many of our political institutions and legitimating myths. The modern welfare state itself which grew up under the wings of Kings owes more to the conception of divine bounty dispensed through beneficent monarchs than to the assertive individualism of classical republicanism. ; Signed by Author . Unwin Hyman hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2534 ISBN : 0044453760 9780044453765

‎Milne J. G‎

‎A HISTORY OF EGYPT Under Roman Rule‎

‎Methuen & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Minor edgewear to corners. Some foxing to endpapers. Light foxing to textblock. Very light bumping to upper edge of rear board; Looks at the history of Egypt from 30 BC to 642 AD. ; 262 pages . Methuen & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2270

‎Dunham Dows‎

‎THE ROYAL CEMETERIES OF KUSH Volume V: the West and South Cemeteries At Mero�‎

‎Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Bumping to back top corner. 2 Stamps to textblock have been deleted with black marker. Text is clean of marks. ; Excavated by the late George Andrew Reisner. Fold-out map of the Merloe South and Merloe West Cemeteries tucked into pocket inside back cover. ; Vol. 5; 457 pages . The Museum of Fine Arts hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 2118

‎Driver G. R.‎

‎ARAMAIC DOCUMENTS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Transcribed and Edited with Translation and Notes with Help from a Typescript by E. Mittwoch W. B. Henning H. J. Polotsky and F. Rosenthal.‎

‎Oxford University At the Clarendon Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Book has minor rubbing to extremities. ; Aramaic Documents published here for the first time came from an unknown site in Egypt and consist of 13 or 14 more or less complete letters and the fragments of others from the Archives of Arsham satrap of Egypt in the time of Darius II and may be dated c. 410 B. C. They deal with the administrative problems confronting the satrap's subordinate officers and with those arising from the relations of these officers with the native population especially in the matter of their fiefs; one is concerned with the making of an equestrian statue for the writer one is a letter of thanks for the safe transport of certain goods for personal use and one is a safe-conduct for a Persian officer proceeding by way of Syria to Egypt. . Oxford University At the Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1876

‎Buck Adriaan De‎

‎GRAMMAIRE �L�MENTAIRE DU MOYEN �GYPTIEN Traduite Par B. Van De Walle Et J. Vergote‎

‎Brill Academic Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Edgewear to corners. Book has shelfwear and rubbing. Bumping to top of spine. ; En fran�ais. ; 11 x 0.75 x 8 Inches; 218 pages . Brill Academic Publishers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1503

‎Naville Edouard Henri‎

‎THE STORE-CITY OF PITHOM AND THE ROUTE OF THE EXODUS With Thirteen Plates and Two Maps‎

‎London: Tr�bner & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Boards are yellowed. Edgewear to boards. Corners are worn. Former owner's signature has been deleted. Light foxing. ; Contents: Tell-El-Maskhutah; Names of the Ancient City; Description of Pithom; History of Pithom; Monuments Discovered; Geographical Remarks; Route of the Exodus; Ptolemy Philadelphos. ; First Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund . Tr�bner & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1357

‎Martin Percy F‎

‎EGYPT - OLD & NEW A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharoahs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View‎

‎G. Allen & Unwin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. One small stain on back board. Edgewear along spine ends. ; Illustrated by 50 colour tipped-in plates. A little light foxing mostly to prelims. ; 223 pages . G. Allen & Unwin hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1122

‎Nelson Harold Hayden & Uvo Holscher Holscher‎

‎WORK IN WESTERN THEBES 1931-33‎

‎The University of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1934. Softcover. Overall light rubbing to covers otherwise excellent condition. ; Looks at the work done at Medinet Habu including the Calendar of Feasts and Offerings and Excavations. Texts are from the Ramesses III period. ; The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Oriental Institute Communications; Vol. 18; 118 pages . The University of Chicago Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 647

‎Vandenberg Philipp‎

‎THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS‎

‎J. B. Lippincott. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0397010354 . Spine Ends are bumped and rubbed. Front cover has a crease across the board. Corner tips are rubbed. ; "Did the ancient Egyptians deliberately turn their pharaohs' rock-bound tombs into death traps for the unwary-4000 years later" Translated by Thomas Weyr. ; 221 pages . J. B. Lippincott hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 332 ISBN : 0397010354 9780397010356

‎Cotterell Arthur‎

‎CHARIOT The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine‎

‎Pimlico. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0712669426 . Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age Cotterell argues that much like the later introduction of the stirrup chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines while Roman chariots were more ceremonial and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chinese engineers developed more efficient harnesses permitting heavier cars. The author's comparative approach broadens the appeal of what would otherwise seem a narrow topic but this account nevertheless behaves as a detailed military history. Particularly interesting for such scholarship the author also discusses the chariot as a vehicle for modern popular culture; it aims to dispel the notion that chariots were simply horse-pulled tanks. Scholarly yet accessible ; 344 pages . Pimlico hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 76 ISBN : 0712669426 9780712669429