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The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokai University, Japan
Richard Jasnow
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Description for The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokai University, Japan
Hardback. This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time; Representing a range of document types and of demotic handwriting. Includes a a rare word list and a new mythological narrative, one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments from the Byzantine period. Editor(s): Krutzsch, Myriam. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 299 x 18. Weight in Grams: 984.
This book contains approximately fifty late Egyptian texts, published for the first time.
The texts represent an interesting range of document types, a range of demotic handwriting, and include a rare word list and a new mythological narrative. There is also one late hieratic text concerned with temple land, and some Greek fragments from the Byzantine period.
The texts were purchased by Professor Suzuki in the early 1960s from various dealers in Cairo. The bulk of the collection, now housed in the Department of Asian Civilization, School of Letters at Tokai University as part of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lockwood Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cultural Legacies
Condition
New
Weight
984g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Atlanta, United States
ISBN
9781937040628
SKU
V9781937040628
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99-26
About Richard Jasnow
Richard Jasnowis Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. J. G. Manningis the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of History and of Classics, at Yale University. He is co-director of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World. Kyoko Yamahanais associate professor in the Department of Asian Civilization at the ... Read more
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