ACLS Humanities E-Book: Texts from the pyramid age

Texts from the pyramid age

Strudwick, Nigel.

Year: c2005.

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Figures

List of Texts

Series Editor's Foreword

Preface

Chronological Table

Map of Egypt

Abbreviations

I. Introduction

1. Preliminary Remarks

2. Previous Work on Old Kingdom Texts

3. Historical Matters

4. Literary and Linguistic Aspects of Old Kingdom Texts

5. Particular Points of Translation

6. Principal Types of Text Translated in This Volume

7. A Final word

8. Conventions

II. Annals and Lists of Kings

III. Texts from Temples

IV. Royal Decrees

V. Objects Bearing Royal Names

VI. Rock Inscriptions of Kings and Expedition Leaders

VII. Quarry and Constructional Marks and Phyle Texts

VIII. Graffiti

IX. State Administrative Texts

X. Letters

XI. Private Legal Texts

XII. A Selection of Offering Formulae and Titles

XIII. Appeals to the Living and Warnings to Evildoers and the Uninitiated

XIV. Commemorative and Dedicatory Texts

XV. Texts relating to Payment of Workmen and Tomb Acquisition

XVI. Biographical Texts from the Memphite Region

XVII. Biographical Texts from the Provinces

XVIII. Texts of Women

XIX. Captions to Tomb Scenes

XX. Miscellaneous Texts from Tombs and Objects in Tombs

XXI. Addendum

List of Sources

Bibliography

Glossary

Indexes

Cross-reference List of Tomb Text Types

Concordance of Texts in Urkunden I

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Title:

Texts from the pyramid age : [translated] by Nigel C. Strudwick.

Author:

Strudwick, Nigel

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Texts from the pyramid age : [translated] by Nigel C. Strudwick.
Strudwick, Nigel
Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, c2005.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07783

Subject Headings:

• Inscriptions, Egyptian -- Translations into English
• Egypt -- History -- Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C. -- Sources

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