New Kingdom ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [[electronic resource] /] / by Fredrik Hagen

• Autore: Hagen Fredrik
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 124 pages) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 016.493/1
• Soggetto topico: Ostraka - Egypt; Egyptian literature; Didactic literature, Egyptian; Egyptian philology
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C Sources Catalogs; Egypt Antiquities Catalogs; Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt) Antiquities Catalogs
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal exercises ( Kemit ), and copies of tomb inscriptions. Each ostracon is presented with photographs, facsimile drawings and hieroglyphic transcriptions, as well as translations and brief philological commentaries. Many of the texts can be linked to the village of Deir el-Medina on internal evidence, and the book offers new data to scholars working with material from this famous site.
• Titolo autorizzato: New Kingdom ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• ISBN: 1-283-11953-6; 9786613119537; 90-04-18376-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811582803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; ; v. 46.