1. For the thousands of readers of various editions of THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD 2. 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. 3. Accessibly written. 4. 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.
1. For the thousands of readers of various editions of THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD 2. 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. 3. Accessibly written. 4. 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.
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)
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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