New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Theban Desert Road Survey II
The Rock Shrine of Pahu, Gebel Akhenaton, and Other Rock Inscriptions
from the Western Hinterland of Naqada
by John Coleman Darnell
Publication of the rock inscriptions and depictions discovered by the Theban Desert Road Survey in
the northern Theban desert and area west of Naqada. Highlights include new prayers to Amun and
Hathor, composed by a priest, Pahu, several important predynastic and protodynastic tableaux, and
the only rock inscriptions of Akhenaten in “Amarna” style.
c. 150p, c. 100 pls, hardback, 9780974002606, $100.00, Yale Egyptological Seminar, October 2009,
Yale Egyptological Publications 1.
Alexandria
A Cultural and Religious
Melting Pot
edited by George Hinge
and Jens A Krasilnikoff
Throughout the entire span of
Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria
represented a meeting place for
many ethnic cultures, and the city
itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created a distinct
Alexandrine ‘culture’ as well as several other distinct ‘cultures’. Ancient Greek,
Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message.
Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination
with the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world, as did Philo, Josephus and
Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I of the volume, Alexandria
from Greece and Egypt, deal with the relationship between Ptolemaic Alexandria
and its Greek past. The contributions to the second part of the book are devoted
to discussions of various aspects of contact and development between Rome,
Judaism and Christianity.
250p, illus, hardback, 9788779344914, $45.00, Aarhus University Press,
October 2009, Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 9.
Les relations du clergé égyptien et des Lagides
d’après les sources privées
by G Gorre
This volume explores the relationship between the Egyptian priesthood and the
Ptolemaic Dynasty according to private texts. It focuses on the mode of transfer
by which members of the priesthood came to work for the palace, how new religious
personnel were instated, and the position and status of Egyptians within the
Ptolemaic state. French text.
641p, paperback, 9789042920354, $152.00(s), Peeters Publishers, May 2009,
Studia Hellenistica 45.
Dendara – Le temple d’Isis
by S Cauville
Vol I: Traduction
ancient egypt
The Libyan Period in Egypt
Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st–24th Dynasties
edited by G P F Broekman, R J Demarée and O E Kaper
This volume contains the Proceedings of a conference held in October 2007 at
Leiden University. There was clearly need to discuss the controversial aspects of the
chronology and culture of the period. Apart from this, several papers deal with the
cultural developments. An interesting joint theme that emerges from these is the
appearance of archaism in the art of the second half of the Libyan Period. Several
papers include comments on a newly found interest in the proportions and iconography
from the classical periods of the past, notably of the Middle Kingdom.
457p, paperback, 9789042922389, $116.00, Peeters Publishers, April 2009,
Egyptologische Uitgaven - Egyptological Publications 23.
These two volumes provide a translation,
into French, and comment of the
inscriptions of the temple of Isis at
Dendara. Following the translation, vol. I provides an index of the offering scenes
and gods represented in the temple, as well as a photographic reconstruction of
the walls. French text.
444p, hardback, 9789042920972, $128.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009,
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 178.
Vol II: Analyse à la lumière du temple d’Hathor
This second volume compares the inscriptions and analyzes the decorations from
the temple of Isis to those of the larger temple of Hathor, on which it was modeled.
French text.
418p, hardback, 9789042920989, $124.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009,
Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 179.
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