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Peeters Publishers Macedon and its Influences
£125.00
Peeters Publishers Histoire de la province romaine de
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£80.18
Peeters Publishers Officium a rationibus
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£88.03
Peeters Publishers Images in Transition
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£89.88
Peeters Publishers Un riche pâturage de mots
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£95.00
Peeters Publishers Divine Names on the Spot III
£85.00
Peeters Publishers Die Mauer der Sabäerhauptstadt Maryab. Abessinien
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£999.99
Peeters Publishers Sealing and Seals on Texts from Kültepe Karum
Book SynopsisIn studies of the Assyrian merchant community established at Kültepe (KARUM Kanesh, level 2) in Anatolia in the early second millennium B.C., the texts with their associated cylinder and stamp sealings found there have traditionally been investigated separately. This book specifically seeks to integrate glyptic and textual studies in a way helpful both to scholars of Old Assyrian and to those with an interest in seals and sealing in the ancient Near East. The combined study of texts and sealings illuminates commercial and socio-legal activity in fresh ways, whilst the stylistic analyses sharpens chronological arguments and throws light on the community's foreign contacts. The book consists of two parts. The first analyses the sealing practices (in general and per type of record, with a special chapter on witnesses) and the seals, their ownership, manufacture, styles, iconography and inscriptions. Special chapters deal with the archives of the KARUM (with a list of their locations) and with the dating of texts and seals (with a list of the eponyms). Part two is a catalogue of 677 seals. It consists of tables offering, in a condensed form, essential data from the text envelopes on which the seals have been impressed, and of drawings of each of them. Extensive indices, of names, eponyms, seal owners/users, seal inscriptions, texts and seals complete this well-documented volume.
£41.98
Peeters Publishers Tablettes cunéiformes de Tello au musée
Book SynopsisCe deuxième ouvrage de la série TCTI présente l'édition de plus de 1400 tablettes cunéiformes sumériennes provenant de Girsu et conservées au Musée d'Istanbul. Avec ces deux volumes (TCTI I et II), sont donc désormais disponibles tous les textes administratifs néo-sumériens issus des fouilles menées à Tello en 1894-1895, et sommairement décrits en 1910 par H. de Genouillac dans le volume II/1 de l'Inventaire des Tablettes de Tello. Venant compléter les transcriptions et les index, une série de notes et commentaires souligne l'intérêt de ces documents parfois bien plus riches et attrayants qu'on ne pourrait le penser au premier abord.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Veenhof Anniversary Volume: Studies Presented to
Book SynopsisDuring his career Klaas Veenhof has worked on numerous aspects of Mesopotamian society. This volume containing forty-four articles contributed by his colleagues pays tribute to his broadness. The subjects of the articles cover a period of more than two millennia, and deal with Ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Israel.
£107.35
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Achaemenid Anatolia: Proceedings of the First
Book SynopsisH. SANCISI-WEERDENBURG: The Problem of the Yauna; P. BRIANT: Remarques sur sources épigraphiques et domination achéménide en Asie Mineure; A. LEMAIRE: Les inscriptions araméennes de Daskyleion; G. GROPP: Sassen die Skudra wirklich in Thrakien? Ein Problem der Satrapienverteilung in Kleinasien; K. STROBEL: Phryger - Lyder - Meder: politische, ethnische und kulturelle Grössen Zentralanatoliens bei Errichtung der achaimenidischen Herrschaft; D. KAPTAN: On the satrapal center in northwestern Asia Minor. Some Evidence from the Seal Impressions of Ergili/Daskyleion; M.B. GARRISON: Anatolia in the Achaemenid Period. Glyptic Insights and Perspectives from Persepolis; B. JACOBS: Kultbilder und Gottesvorstellung bei den Persern zu Herodot; A.D.H. BIVAR: Magians and Zoroastrians. The Religions of the Iranians in Anatolia; O.P.V. L'VOV BASIROV: Achaemenian Funerary Practices in western Asia Minor; Y. TUNA-NÖRLING: Attic Pottery from Dascylium; G. POLAT: Das Grabdenkmal des Autophradates; J. BORCHHARDT and P. RUGGENDORFER: Neufunde zur reliefierten Basis des Reiterstandbildes von Zêmuri; S. ATESLIER: Observations on an Early Classical Building of the Satrapal Period at Daskyleion; T. BAKIR: Die Satrapie in Daskyleion; I. GEZGIN: Defensive Systems in Aiolis and Ionia Regions in the Achaemenid Period.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Assur-nada Archive
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£60.43
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Teachings of Sylvanus (Nag Hammadi Codex VII,
Book SynopsisThis posthumously published book was finished by the late Dr. Jan Zandee, Professor-Emeritus in Egyptology and the history of ancient religions. The 'Teachings' had indeed his interest for many years of his scholarly life. In the present book, a magnum opus, his earlier and latest findings are summarized. This Nag Hammadi-tractate, a pseudepigraphon using the name of the companion of St. Paul, is written in the form of the ancient sapiential literature. The Greek original may date from the early third century, the Coptic codex VII was created about A.D. 340. The theme of the writing is the battle of the soul against evil and the final victory with the additional and decisive help of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. The author gives the Coptic text with translation and a rich commentary. Summaries, six excursusses and two indices (Greek and Coptic words) complete this fine book, a testimony of great learning.
£59.85
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The World of the Coffin Texts: Proceedings of the
Book SynopsisThe proceedings of this symposium offer contributions by leading experts working on the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, i.e., the texts written on coffins of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1750 B.C.). The volume provides a cross-section of current research activities in this field of study. Apart from progress reports on lexicographical and other projects, the volume contains presentations of 'new' material (e.g. from Lisht or Qâw al-Kabîr), typological assessments of coffin material, text-critical studies of groups of spells, grammatical studies, and discussions of theological and ritual aspects of the texts. The volume is of interest to Egyptologists and historians of religion.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Women at Deir el-Medina: A Study of the Status
Book SynopsisThe non-literary Deir el-Medîna ostraca texts form the main source material for this study of the women of the royal workmen's community. The life-span of the household provides the frame within which women's social roles and status are discussed by examining women's titles, actions, circumstances, as well as opinions voiced by and about women.
£65.47
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Woodcutters, Potters and Doorkeepers: Service
Book SynopsisThe community of necropolis workmen of Deir el-Medina was part of the administrative branch responsible for the preparation of the royal tombs. To this department also belonged several groups of service personnel. This volume presents separate studies on three groups of this service staff. Two of these belonged to the so-called smdt, namely the woodcutters and the potters, while the third group occupies a position somewhere in between the workmen and the smdt, the doorkeepers.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Dating Late XIXth Dynasty Ostraca
Book SynopsisSince many ostraca from the environs of Deir el-Medina lack specific regnal year dates, dating them precisely is a tricky business. This volume attempts to provide comparative datings for 78 ostraca (and papyri) from the late XIXth dynasty. The method draws explicitly on the division of the gang into two sides and, crucially, makes full use (for the first time) of the specific ordering of workmen’s names to be found in documentation from this period. The archaeological context of the important body of late XIXth dynasty material from the Valley of the Kings is investigated and it is shown that the datings proposed here on comparative grounds correlate strongly with the grouping of the ostraca by excavation and find-site. The work is supported by a comprehensive index of the workmen by source and a concordance comparing the datings suggested here with those from other standard reference resources.
£42.79
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the analysis of the magical contents of a funerary papyrus belonging to the so-called “Book of the Dead” genre. The papyrus of Gatseshen, daughter of the High Priest of Amon Menkheperra (middle XXIst Dynasty), consists of almost 18 meters of beautifully written hieratic text and colourful vignettes. The author has attempted to reconstruct the history of composition and arrangement of this document, by investigating in detail the thematic connections between the different spells and vignettes. By comparing the layout of this papyrus with those produced in the same area and period, a new view of the funerary religion at Thebes during the XXIst Dynasty is outlined. The overall picture which can be gained by this comparative study is that of an innovative and lively tradition of funerary scrolls, which were used not only to protect the deceased during his journey in the netherworld, but also in order to express the religious ideas of its owners. A cd-rom containing colour photos of the papyrus is supplied with the volume.
£66.58
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Waar de geschiedenis begon: Nederlandse
Book SynopsisDe oude culturen van Egypte en het Nabije Oosten zijn onze voorlopers. Hier ontwikkelden zich o.a. het alfabet, godsdienstige voorstellingen, literatuur en wetten, die de wortels van onze beschaving vormen. In Nederland is de studie van onze oudste geschiedenis al 75 jaar lang verbonden met het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO). Ter gelegenheid van dit jubileum beschrijven de auteurs van dit boek de veelzijdige werkzaamheden die zijzelf of andere Nederlandse onderzoekers verrichten bij opgravingen in Egypte en het Nabije Oosten en de studie van de oude culturen aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Ook komen de rijke museumcollecties in Nederland aan de orde. Het is voor het eerst dat de archeologen en onderzoekers zelf de ontwikkelingen in hun vakgebied beschrijven, en zo laten zien wat de Nederlandse bijdrage is geweest bij de studie van de landen waar de geschiedenis begon.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Assyria and Beyond: Studies Presented to Mogens
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£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies in
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£56.10
Peeters Publishers Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia: Papers Read at
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£75.05
Peeters Publishers The Ruling Family of Ur III Umma: A
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£999.99
Peeters Publishers The Royal Archives from Tell Leilan: Old
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the royal letters and treaties excavated in 1987 at Tell Leilan (Syria) by archaeologists from Yale University. The ca. 200 letters and a handful of political treaties, all written in cuneiform on clay tablets fomed part of the archives of kings Mutija and Till-Abnû, who ruled at Tell Leilan, ancient Shehna/Shubat-Enlil, ca. 1750-40 BC. Comprehensive introductory sections review the evidence in its archaeological and historical contexts, and are followed by the complete scholarly edition of the texts. Facsimile drawings and photos of the original tablets are presented both in print and on cd-rom. NINO is proud to publish this important work in cooperation with the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums of the Syrian Arab Republic.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Akkade is King: A Collection of Papers by Friends
Book SynopsisIn the volume Akkade is King, friends, colleagues and former students celebrate the scholarly achievements of Aage Westenholz on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Contributions cover a wide range of topics within the field of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, including Semitic linguistics and grammar, archaeology and art history, administration and bureaucracy, Sumerian and Akkadian literature, political history, trade and economy through the first three millennia of recorded history.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Through Travellers' Eyes: European Travellers on
Book SynopsisFrom the early fourteenth century European travellers were intrigued by Iranian antiquities, particularly those at Persepolis and Pasargadae. Increasing sophistication in reporting, recurring prejudices, and illuminating insights characterize this fascinating history of discovery as highlighted by the articles in this volume.
£52.25
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Persepolis Seal Studies: An Introduction with
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£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) Studies in Persian History: Essays in Memory of
Book SynopsisThis volume contains thirteen studies on aspects of Achaemenid Persian History ranging from the Persian heartland to Asia Minor. The papers cover social, economic, political, linguistic, historiographical and artistic problems of Achaemenid History, in which David Lewis had a particular interest.
£999.99
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Ezida Temple of Borsippa: Priesthood, Cult,
Book SynopsisThis book provides an insight into the world of the priests of the Ezida temple in Borsippa, covering the period when this sanctuary dedicated to the god Nabû was Babylonia’s second most important place of worship (c. 750-484 BC). The backbone of the book is the extensive corpus of cuneiform texts that these priests have left behind. Discovered in the 19th century, these archives have largely remained unstudied. Apart from offering an edition of the texts (Part II), this study reconstructs the professional and social lives of Nabû’s priests, and outlines the workings of the cult of a major Babylonian deity (Part I). A dvd-rom with digital photographs of edited texts is included.
£110.75
Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire Inverse Du Copte
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£28.28
Peeters Publishers Aegeans in the Theban Tombs
Book SynopsisThe wall paintings of several Theban tombs represent foreigners who present gifts that are sometimes typically Cretan or Aegean. Other foreigners, although labeled "Princes of Keftiu" (Crete), are represented as Asiatics. The aim of the present volume is to analyze these wall paintings in order to distinguish the Aegeans and their gifts. The author manages to establish their characteristics in nine Theban tombs, divides chronologically in two groups, and shows that the related figures reflect actual Aegeo-Egyptian relations in the time of the XVIIIth dynasty, down to c. 1470/1450 BC. This result is obtained by a careful comparison of represented gifts with undoubtedly Minoan objects and documents from the Aegean, especially Crete.
£68.00
Peeters Publishers Phoenicia and the East Mediterranean in the First
Book SynopsisThese proceedings of the conference held in Leuven from the 14th to the 16th of November 1985 contain thirty studies dealing with various aspects of the Phoenician civilization and its expansion around the Eastern Mediterranean in the first millenium B.C. Contributions referring to a geographic area, like Anatolia, the Aramaic world, the trade between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Cyprus, Greece, alternate with studies referring to the cult of Phoenician deities in the region concerned: Tanit, Resheph, Baal Saphon, Heracles. Other papers deal with Phoenician artefacts, institutions, or economic activities, as well as with Phoenician history according to Greek classical or Hellenistic authors. On the whole, the volume constitutes an up-to-date description of the Phoenician culture spreading in the East Mediterranean world from the beginning of the first millenium B.C. and having a lasting impact on the civilization of the countries involved.
£118.75
Peeters Publishers Life Out of Death: Studies in the Religions of
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£51.08
Peeters Publishers The Archive of the Theban Choachytes: A Survey of
Book SynopsisThe archive of the Theban choachytes contains over 80 texts, Greek and demotic. They are largely private documents that together constitute the papers of a family of choachytes (undertakers). It is known since the beginnings of modern Egyptology and Papyrology as the "Hermias Archive" after the antagonist of the choachytes in a now famous Greek law suit kept in Turin. Although its bilingual information contributed in no uncertain measure to the decipherment of demotic, a large part of this fundamentally demotic archive is still not or not properly published. This Survey reviews for each text, Greek or Demotic, all relevant data in great detail and determines its exact place within the whole of the archive. The second half of the book presents the study of a number of special subjects that emerge from the contentts of the archive, such as the topography of Thebes (city and necropolis), prosopography, mummies and liturgies, but also more general subjects as onomastics, prices and transfer tax (enkyklion), and the diplomatics of the documents.
£225.00
Peeters Publishers Le Livre De Parcourir L'Eternite
Book SynopsisAu premier rang de la litterature funeraire de Basse Epoque, le Livre de parcourir l'eternite est une oeuvre d'une richesse et d'une complexite exceptionnelles, dont l'originalite reside dans l'inventaire des places sacrees visitees par le defunt et surtout dans le catalogue de fetes et rites auxquels il participe. Aux documents deja connus, dont le P. Leyde T32, s'ajoutent aujourd'hui une serie de paralleles supplementaires - une douzaine de papyrus hieratiques inedits, un papyrus demotique et l'inscription d'un couvercle de sarcophage. Les 19 versions de provenance variee, datees de l'epoque greco-romaine autorisent l'etablissement definitif du texte, l'analyse detaillee de ses elements, la mise en valeur de ses structures. Une etude axee sur l'articulation des actes du defunt, de l'espace et du temps revele la nature de la finalite de l'ouvrage, construit dans une perspective essentiellement chronologique. Par sa thematique funeraire, ses developpements geographiques, liturgiques et calendriques, le Livre de parcourir l'eternite est l'une des plus remarquables syntheses religieuses de l'Egypte tardive. Traduction, commentaire philologique, synthese, transcription et photos des textes. Index.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Encomiastica from the Pierpont Morgan Library: T.
Book Synopsis"Encomiastica from the Pierpont Morgan Library" continues a collaborative effort to make available in edition and translation what remains unpublished of the Coptic literary manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library. A first volume appeared under the title Homiletica from the Pierpont Morgan Library (CSCO 524 and 525). The introduction to the text volume includes sections on the texts, the manuscripts, and the language, as well as some addenda to Homiletica and to the Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Peeters 1993). In the introduction to the translation volume, S. Harvey discusses the cultural and historical setting of the five texts. The texts are attributed to Anastasius of Euchaita, Epiphanius of Salamis, Isaac of Antinoe, Severian of Gabala, and Theopempus of Antioch, but these attributions are probably spurious. The works may have been composed as late as the seventh or eight century AD in Coptic, with the thematic features being derived from earlier sources, possibly including Greek church fathers, and in certain instances perhaps even the authors to which they are attributed; but this matter awaits further investigation.
£64.08
Peeters In de Schaduw Van Babel. a l'Ombre de Babel de
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£50.35
Peeters Publishers L'ecrit Sans Titre. Traite sur L'origine du Monde
Book SynopsisL'analyse de la composition de ce traite a partir de la rhetorique hellenistique permet de constater qu'il a ete redige avec un grand souci de coherence et de croire qu'il a ete concu comme un ouvrage de propagande gnostique destine a des lecteurs juifs. Deux series de transformations semblent toutefois avoir bouleverse l'arrangement de ses parties et modifie la fonction de certaines figures, dont celle de Sabaoth. C'est du moins ce qui permet d'expliquer au mieux l'impression simultanee de coherence et de desordre que ce traite produit chez son lecteur. Cette nouvelle edition et traduction jette une lumiere neuve sur un des traites les plus fascinants de la collection de Nag Hammadi et sur les liens avec Eugnoste le Bienheureux (NH III,3 et VI,1), qui sont d'une importance capitale pour l'histoire du gnosticisme.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers La Deesse SGrol-ma (Tara), Recherches Sur La
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£999.99
Peeters Publishers Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient
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£88.00
Peeters Publishers Le Tonnerre, Intellect Parfait (NH VI, 2): Avec
Book SynopsisDepuis son identification comme traite distinct au sein du codex VI, en 1962, le traite intitule "Le tonnerre, intellect parfait" n'a cesse de susciter l'etonnement et l'embarras de ses commentateurs. La recherche menee sur ce traite depuis 1970 a cependant permis d'eclairer plus d'un aspect du texte, par exemple, ses liens avec la Sagesse biblique et l'Isis hellenistique ou encore sa forme litteraire, et ont ainsi balise la voie pour tout futur interprete du traite. Mais celui-ci reste confronte a l'aporie hermeneutique creee par l'absence de tout cadre narratif ou d'un contexte mythologique clair, et par un recours systematique a des oppositions et a des antitheses dont on ne sait jamais si elles sont voulues pour elles-memes ou si elles resultent de l'application mecanique d'un procede litteraire. Dans cet ouvrage, une interpretation d'ensemble du traite est presentee ainsi que le premier commentaire consacre a lui. L'ouvrage comporte en outre un texte copte nouvellement etabli, une traduction fracaise, des index du vocabulaire et des formes grammaticales, ainsi qu'une etude de l'orthographe du Codex VI et de la langue du traite.
£80.00
Peeters Publishers The Aramaic Language in the Achaemenid Period: A
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£111.71
Peeters Publishers Civil Calender and Lunar Calendar in Ancient
Book SynopsisThis investigation is concerned with ancient Egyptian calendars. Its specific focus is one of the oldest problems of the study of these calendars: the so-called problem of the month names. This work's main purpose is to suggest an explanation for the Brugsch phenomenon. The Brugsch phenomenon is one of the two main aspects of the problem of the month names. The other is the Gardiner phenomenon. No new theory is presented for the Gardiner phenomenon. As a problem, the Brugsch phenomenon is slightly older than the Gardiner Phenomenon. It has occupied center stage in the study of ancient Egyptian calendars since the early days of this endeavor. In 1870, Heinrich Brugsch, the great pioneer in this subject, wrote about the phenomenon, "Here we encounter all at once the most curious contradiction." Just recently, Rolf Krauss has described the contradiction as still "unsolved". The Brugsch phenomenon concerns the indisputable fact that the last or twelfth month of the Egyptian civil year can be named as if it were the first. Two month names are involved. The first is wp rnpt. Its meaning "opener of the year," refers to a beginning. The second month name is mswt r' "birth of Re" in hieroglyphic Egyptian, Mesore in Aramaic, Greek and Coptic. Both can otherwise also refer to New Year's Day, the quintessential calendrical beginning.
£999.99
Kath Univ Leuven Dep Oriental Yahya Ibn 'Adi, Theologien Chretien Et Philosophe
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Kath Univ Leuven Dep Oriental Redt Tyrus / Sauvons Tyr - Histoire Phenicienne /
Book SynopsisIn part I of the book equal attention is given to the history, philology, numismatics and archaeology of Tyre and its surroundings. In the contributions of part II, Near Eastern, Greek and Latin philology play an important role. Attention is paid also to the Phoenician settlements in Cyprus, especially to the A"Carthage de ChypreA", and to the problem of locating Byrsa in the great Carthage of North Africa.
£54.15
Brepols Publishers Conceptualising Early Colonisation
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£90.25
Stichting Promotie Archeologie Roman Material Culture: Studies in Honour of Jan
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£42.30
Groeninghe N.V. Les ostraca coptes de la TT 29
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£113.15