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I understand that a reprint of this fundamental collection of texts of the 18th dynasty is now available. See the web site http://www.elibron.com
Brepols has published a catalogue of the exhibition entitled les artistes du pharaon. Contact Patrick Daemen (patrick.daemen@brepols.com) for ordering information or go to their web site http://www.brepols.com
Click here for a summary in French and Dutch.
Added at the request of George Kiraz, 11 June 2002
Gorgias Press announces the availability of Alexander Henry Rhind's Thebes, Its Tombs and Their Tenants, reproduced from the 1862 edition. The book is now available at a limited-copy pre-publication discount.
Price: $65.00
Limited Pre-publication copies available at discount.
Post Publication Price: $78.00, SAVE $13.00 (while copies last)
Subtitle: Includes a record of Excavations in the Necropolis
Format: Cloth
Size (in): 6 x 9
Pages: xx + 329
Photos/Illustrations: 16 (many in colour)
Maps/Plans: 1
Publication Year: Forthcoming 2002
Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish lawyer who travelled to Egypt for his health in 1855-56 and 1856-57, is probably best known for the Egyptian Mathematical Papyrus that bears his name (now preserved at the British Museum). As did many other educated Europeans who went to Egypt for medical reasons, Rhind undertook excavations in the Theban area (modern Luxor). Through his excavations and purchases, he acquired a large collection of antiquities, much of which is now in Edinburgh and still unpublished. Rhind*s book on Thebes is unique in that unlike many other Egyptologists of his time, he gives a precise and detailed description of how he actually excavated the sites, in itself an immense value to the history of archaeology.
This edition is an exact reproduction of the 1862 first edition, and includes many coloured illustrations. (The value of the original edition in the antiquarian market averages $500.00!)
Contents
I. Thebes
II. The Necropolis
III. On the Results of Former Sepulchral Researches
IV. The Unrifled Tomb of a Theban Dignitary and Its Contents
V. A Burial-Place of the Poor
VI. Excavations Among Tombs of Various Grades
VII. On the Theories Explanatory of Egyptian Sepulture
VIII. The Sepulchral Evidence on Early Metallurgic Practice
IX. How the Demand for Egyptian Relics Has Been Supplied
X. The Present Tenants of the Tombs
XI. The Present Tenants of the Tombs and Their Rulers.
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For a description and details of this new book, click here.
Cassandra Vivian, The Western Desert of Egypt.An Explorer's Handbook. See here for a blurb about this book.
The first volume of the Topographical Bibliography to appear for many years, volume 8, Objects of Unknown Provenance, Statues, has appeared:
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings (Porter-Moss), by Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee and Elizabeth Miles.
Volume viii Part 1: Objects of Provenance Not Known. Statues (Royal Statues. Private Statues: Predynastic to the end of Dynasty XVII), hardback, ISBN 0 900416 68 8, lii+482 pages. Price £65 (pounds sterling).
Volume viii Part 2: Objects of Provenance Not Known. Statues (Private Statues: Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period. Statues of Deities), hardback, ISBN 0 900416 69 6, lxii+700 pages (pp. 483-1182). Price £80 (pounds sterling).
The Indices to Volume viii Parts 1 and 2, hardback, ISBN 0 900416 70 X, viii+136 pages. Price £20 (pounds sterling).
If bought as a set, the price is reduced to £145 (pounds sterling).
More information will be found on the web sites of the Griffith Institute or Aris and Phillips.
After a long wait, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, edited by Shaw and Nicholson, is at last available. It is published by Cambridge University Press at £95 (ISBN: 0521452570); by Cambridge standards, that is not particularly expensive for a big book. I have noted that it is on sale from www.amazon.co.uk for £72 plus postage.
NEW BOOK BY TRIADE EXPLORATION "HIDDEN FIELDS OF TUTANKHAMUN". "From identification to interpretation of newly discovered plant material from the pharaoh's tomb". by Christian de Vartavan. In 1988, Christian de Vartavan discovered 31 samples of plant remains from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the museum reserve of Kew's Royal Botanical Gardens. The present volume is the first publication of his research and includes numerous photographs of the seed and fruit remains which he examined in England as well as in Egypt's Cairo Museum. The author was able to bring the total number of plant species known to have been stored in the tomb of Tutankhamun from only two dozen to an astonishing 145 different species.
ISBN 0-9527827-2-3. 221 pages + 61 plates for 376 black and white photographs of the remains. 35 tables, 2 maps, 45 figures and 8 plates in the text (one in colour). 28.5 x 19 x2 cm (paperback).
75 Pounds (GB) + Post & Packing 3.00 Pounds (Europe)/ 5,00 (Overseas) FRS 750 + Frs 30 OR US $115 + $20 package, post and bank charge.
To see the bookcover and obtain more details about this publication, please come to our website at : www.bcity.com/triade_explor
Catalogue General of Egyptian Antiquities in the Cairo Museum, Nrs. 48601-48649 Statues of the XXVth and XXVIth Dynasties, by Jack A. Josephson and Mamdouh M. Eldamaty (SCA, Cairo, 1999). 116 pps. and 49 pls.
Orders can be placed with Leila Books, 39 Kasr El Nil Street, Cairo, fax (202) 3924475, email leilabks@intouch.com.
A new book by Robert Morkot and a list of existing Egyptological publications can be found here.
The American University in Cairo Press has recently published a translation of the Shipwrecked Sailor by John L. Foster with illustrations, mostly of a light-hearted nature, by Lyla P. Brock.
See also http://www.boustanys.com
ISBN 90-5789-001-1 Leiden 1998 477 pp. with two large site plans Price DFl. 90, excl. shipping To order the book, please contact the CNWS secretariat, e-mail: CNWS@Rullet.leidenUniv.NL
Berenike '96 discusses the results of the third season of archaeological work at the important Egyptian Red Sea harbour of Berenike. The harbour was used during the Roman period for trade with the coastal areas along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The book includes an Introduction, followed by 22 chapters that deal with various aspects of the excavations and the surveys of the hinterland. The chapters deal respectively with the excavations themselves; the geology; the pottery; the coins; Greek and Latin texts; metal finds; textiles; cordage; basketry and matting; amphora stoppers; glass; archaeobotanical remains; wood and charcoal; faunal remains; human bones and burials; finds' conservation; and surveys of the hinterland, including that of Shenshef.The book ends with an interpretative summary and conclusion. The book includes an extensive bibliography and an index, and is published together with two large fold-out maps.
Berenike '96 is the third in the series of reports of the excavations. The first and second reports were published in 1995 and 1996, also by CNWS Publications. The reports are edited by Steven E. Sidebotham, Professor of History at the University of Delaware (USA), and Willemina Z. Wendrich, archaeologist employed by the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies, Cairo.
by Christian de Vartavan & Victoria Asensi Amoros
Over 4600 identifications of Ancient Egyptian plant remains are listed in the Codex. While exluding all artistic or linguistic data, the Codex synthetizes more than 350 archaeobotanical reports since Kunth's first scientific study in this field was published in 1826. Includes also : Shortlist to the 475 species identified from Ancient Egypt - Taxonomical classification of identified species in the manner of a flora - Comparative analysis with modern Egyptian flora - Index of common names.
Bilingual English/French. 407 pages. £ 65 EEC (110$ Overseas) +/ Post & Packing £ 2.90 ($5). ISBN 0-9527827-0-7.
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Author: Howard Carter.
Preface by the seventh Earl of Carnarvon.
Introduction by Nicholas Reeves
Publisher: Libri. Series: First Person Archaeology
ISBN: 1 901965 00 7
Price: £17.95 + postage and packing
Paperback. xxxiv + 149 pages, 13 black and white illustrations
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"A monument in the history of research in the Near East"-James Henry Breasted
5th April 1923. With the death of Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter was plunged into a political storm, culminating in the suspension of work at the tomb of Tutankhamun. It was the first strike in archaeological history.
Now, seventy-five years after the death of Carnarvon, Carter's gripping "Statement" concerning this extraordinary episode is published in full.
Two new books of interest to Egyptologists are now available from University Museum Publications
The Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Eliezer D. Oren, editor
1997. University Museum Monograph 96, University Museum Symposium Series 8, xxvi + 433 pp., 202 figs., 4 tables, biblio. ISBN 0-924171-46-4 $50.00
Searching for Ancient Egypt
introduced by David Silverman
1997. Cornell University Press. 300 pp., 125 pp. of color ills. 0-8014-3482-3 Cloth $60.00 Paper $35.00
Please add 5% domestic and 10% for foreign orders to cover shipping and handling.
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Wilkinson, Richard H., [Editor]. Valley of the Sun King: New Explorations in the Tombs of the Pharaohs: Papers from The University of Arizona International Conference on the Valley of the Kings. Tucson: The University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition; 1995. 1 volume (164 pages [illustrated]). ISBN: 0-9649958-0-8.
via WILKINSON, Richard H. Egyptian Expedition 347 Harvill., Box 10 University of Arizona P.O.Box 210076 Tucson AZ 85721-0076 520-621-3933; Fax: 520-621-1809 E-Mail: kemet@azstarnet.com
Edda Bresciani announces the publication of two new books:
Order both books from Maria Pacini Fazzi editore, Piazza .S.Romano, LUCCA (Italy); tel.0039.583.55530 ; fax 0039.583.418245
Also available is a new CD-ROM called Pisa in Egypt. ARCHAEOLOGY AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
Price Lire 60.000 (included postal expenses)
Order to: Dpt of SSMA-Sect. Egyptology, Via Galvani, 1- PISA (Italy); tel. 0039.50.911553, fax 0039.50.500668
Click here for an announcement for John Pye Rare Books posted by Peter Manuelian.
$25.00 + shipping/handling C. Lilyquist, Egyptian Stone Vessels: Khian through Tuthmosis IV
$20.00 + shipping/handling C. Lilyquist, Studies in Early Egyptian Glass
Both may be ordered from The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1-800-468-7386 (toll free within the U.S. and Canada) or 718-326-7050 (for foreign orders).
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Divitiae Aegypti. Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause hrsgg. von C. Fluck, L. Langener, S. Richter, S. Schaten, G. Wurst; 348pp, 24 pl. Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-88226-835-2
Contribution by: R. Altheim-Stiehl; T. Baumeister; J.v. Beckerath,=20 A. Boehlig, A. Boud=B4hors, H. Brandenburg, H. Buschhausen, B.J. Diebner, M. Eaton-Krauss, S. Emmel, W.-P. Funk, I. Gardner, W. Godlewski,=20 E. Graefe, P. Grossmann, J. Helderman, F.W. Hinkel, E. Hornung, J. Kahl, A. Di Bitonto Kasser, R. Kasser, A. Khosroyev, E. Lucchesi-Palli,=20 P.P.V. van Moorsel, P. Nagel, C. Nauerth, T. Orlandi, K. Parlasca, H. Quecke, D. Renner-Vollbach, J. Ries, K. Rudolph, M.-H. Rutschowscaya, H.-G. Severin, A. Shisha-Halevy, A. Stauffer, D. van Damme, R. McL. Wilso= n, E. Wipszycka.
(ANE list 26/10/95, Erhart Graefe)
Hermes Aegyptiacus. Egyptological Studies for B.H. Stricker on his 85th birthday, edited by Terence DuQuesne, has just been published by DE Publications (13 Lovelace Rd., Oxford OX2 8LP, UK), pp. 189, ills., ISBN 0-9510704-6-0.
Contributors: W.H. Hovestreydt (bibliography), J. Assmann, M. Bilolo, J.F. Borghouts, T. DuQuesne, M. Heerma van Voss, E. Hermsen, S. Tower Hollis, E. Hornung, J.J. Janssen, L. Kakosy, M. Malaise, D. Meeks, J. Quaegebeur, W. Vycichl.
(ANE list 25/10/95, Jaromir Malek)