Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt

Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt
Author: Jane L. Rowlandson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107032970

Translated ancient sources from over 3000 years of Egyptian history reveal the complex story of slavery in the Nile valley.

The Family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) Revisited

The Family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) Revisited
Author: Julia Budka
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2022-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1803271639

This book identifies a key figure in the family that reused the Saite tomb of Ankh-Hor (TT 414) in the Asasif: Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu. Examining the funerary assemblage revealed not only details of Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic burial customs in Thebes but also additional information on the priesthood of Khonsu and of the sacred baboons in this era.

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
Author: Caroline Humfress
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009566148

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200–3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
Author: Morris L. Bierbrier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538157500

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition covers the whole range of the history of ancient Egypt from the Prehistoric Period until the end of Roman rule in Egypt based on the latest information provided by academic scholars and archaeologists. This is done through a revised introduction on the history of ancient Egypt, the dictionary section has over 1,000 dictionary entries on historical figures, geographical locations, important institutions and other facets of ancient Egyptian civilization. This is followed by two appendices one of which is a chronological table of Egyptian rulers and governors and the other a list of all known museums which contain ancient Egyptian objects. The volume ends with a detailed bibliography of Egyptian historical periods, archaeological sites, general topics such as pyramids, languages and arts and crafts and the publications of Egyptian material in museums throughout the world.

The Life of J. D. Åkerblad

The Life of J. D. Åkerblad
Author: Fredrik Thomasson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004211160

This intellectual biography of Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) presents a new account of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian. Oriental and classical studies and their entwinement in the turbulent politics of this age of Revolutions are presented from a novel perspective.

Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times

Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times
Author: Sara Saba
Publisher: Brill Studies in Greek and Rom
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004425699

The diplomatic tool known as isopolity is a testament to Greek ingenuity and is attested all over the Mediterranean from the 4th to 1st century B.C., mainly epigraphically. "Isopoliteia" was a popular way to establish new relashionships, reinforce old ones or to regulate difficult situations among communities in the Hellenistic Period. This book offers close scrutiny of potential citizenship between communities as well as a fresh examination of new evidence which has emerged since the publication of the only monograph written on the topic by Wilfried Gawantka in 1975. The book brings together all the evidence for isopolity in the Hellenistic world and demonstrates that communities used this diplomatic tool across different kinds of agreements and through a range of different ways.

The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes

The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes
Author: Krzysztof Nawotka
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004335226

The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. It is a historical commentary which identifies all names and places in this piece of Greek literature approached as a source for the history of Alexander the Great, from kings, like Nectanebo II of Egypt and Darius III of Persia, to fictional characters. It discusses real and imaginary geography of the Alexander Romance. While dealing with all aspects of Ps.-Callisthenes relevant to Greek history and to Macedonia, its pays particular attention to aspects of ancient history and culture of Babylonia and Egypt and to the multi-layered foundation story of Alexandria.