Dealing with the Dead in Ancient Egypt | Buch

Cover: 9781617979965 | Dealing with the Dead in Ancient Egypt | Koenraad Donker Van Heel

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Beschreibung

For the thousands of readers of various editions of THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Gives a real and an intimate insight into the lives of ordinary people 2700 years ago, based on real documents that only very few people in the world can read.
Accessibly written.
Provides rich detail on funerary business in ancient Egypt, including many of its surprising aspects, such as singing and dancing by professionals in the night before burial.

For the thousands of readers of various editions of THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Gives a real and an intimate insight into the lives of ordinary people 2700 years ago, based on real documents that only very few people in the world can read.
Accessibly written.
Provides rich detail on funerary business in ancient Egypt, including many of its surprising aspects, such as singing and dancing by professionals in the night before burial.

Über den Autor

Koenraad Donker van Heel is lecturer in Demotic at Leiden University. He is the author of Mrs. Naunakhte & Family: The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina (AUC Press, 2016); Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt (AUC Press, 2014), and Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt (AUC Press, 2013)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Map
Chronology

The Texts
Previous Study of the Texts
The Choachyte Petebaste
A Family of Clients
So Why Was Hieratic Abnormal?
Just a Captive from Gaza
Are You Buying or Leasing This Man?
What Is This Document Doing Here?
Burying Your Grandparents
The Trial that Backfired
Did Petebaste Own a Field?
Two Accounts for a Single Funeral
The Second Account
Epilogue

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781617979965
ISBN-10:	1617979961
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Donker Van Heel, Koenraad
Hersteller:	American University in Cairo Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 163 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Koenraad Donker Van Heel
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.04.2021
Gewicht:	0,415 kg