New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

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Bibliographie zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch
2., erweiterte Auflage
edited by Burkhard Backes, Svenja A Gulden, Holger Kockelmann,
Marcus Müller-Roth, Irmtraut Munro and Simone Stöhr
This new edition of a bibliography of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead has been greatly
enlarged, owing to much new research published since the volume’s first edition in 1998. It
retains the organization of the original edition, with its sections on translations, introductions,
editions and catalogs, as well as individual chapters of the Book of the Dead. German text.
259p, paperback, 9783447058650, $74.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, April 2009,
Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 13.
Statthalterliche Verwaltung
in der Römischen Kaiserzeit
Studien zum praefectus Aegypti
by Andrea Jördens
No other province of the Imperium Romanum is better
known than Egypt, and no other province has preserved
more abundant material on the administrative
activities of Roman governors. Nevertheless, the Greek
papyri have mostly been viewed as only minor contributions
to the study of provincial administration as a
whole. This volume demonstrates that this assessment
must be reviewed, by presenting varied documentation on the governor of Egypt’s unique
authority over matters of tax and finance. The unexpected light these texts of everyday administrative
measures shed on the actions of Roman officials allows new insight into the
fundamental principles of Roman access to conquered territory. German text.
616p, 4 plans, hardback, 9783515092838, $138.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, May 2009,
Historia - Einzelschriften 175.
Innovationen in der Privatplastik
Die 18. Dynastie und ihre Entwicklung
by Edith Bernhauer
This volume on innovations in Egyptian personal
sculpture focuses on the 18th Dynasty, a lively and
turbulent period of Egyptian history that culminated
in the revolutionary Amarna period. A methodological
section deals with aspects of sculptural terminology
and provides new approaches to a computer-based
analysis of sculpture. German text.
252p, paperback, 9783447057127, $72.00(s),
Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2009, Philippika 27.
Ausgestattet mit den Schriften des Thot
Festschrift für Irmtraut Munro zu ihrem 65. Geburtstag
edited by Burkhard Backes, Marcus Müller-Roth
and Simone Stöhr
This Festschrift in honor of Irmtraut Munro collects 17 essays by colleagues
and friends on the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which
has been the honoree’s focus of research for many years. German text.
299p, illus, paperback, 9783447058766, $87.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag,
July 2009, Studien zum altägyptischen Totenbuch 14.
Das Totenbuch-Papyrus der Ta-shep-en-Chonsu
aus der späten 25. Dynastie
pMoskau Puschkin-Museum I, 1b, 121
by Irmtraut Munro, with contributions by John H Taylor
The papyrus published in this volume is one of the few manuscripts that
can be dated safely to the 25th Dynasty. It is accompanied by a palaeographic
and genealogical analysis. German text.
41p, folder with insert, paperback, 9783447058759, $72.00(s),
Harrassowitz Verlag, July 2009, Handschriften des Altägyptischen
Totenbuches 10.
Texte – Theben – Tonfragmente
Festschrift für Günter Burkard
edited by Dieter Kessler, Regine Schulz, Martina
Ullmann, Alexandra Verbovsek and Stefan Wimmer
This Festschrift in honor of Günter Burkard, the long-time chair of
Egyptology at Munich University, contains 41 contributions by colleagues
that deal with the honoree’s focal points of interest: the geographic
region of Thebes as well as literary and textual research of ostraca
and other means of writing. The volume includes a comprehensive
bibliography of Burkard’s writings. German text.
462p, hardback, 9783447058643, $192.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, June 2009.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009