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Forthcoming & New TitlesGolden House PublicationsThe Question of Evil in Ancient Egyptby Mpay Kemboly, S.J.This book examines relevant sources from the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts (c. 24th centuryBCE) to the Graeco-Roman Period inscriptions (2nd century CE) in order to understand the waythe ancient Egyptians tackled the question of the origin of evil in the world. It also investigateswhether the world was perfect or imperfect since its beginning. Scholars addressingthese questions are generally of two categories: those advocating the pre-existent characterof evil and asserting therefore that the world was not perfect since its creation, and those whoplead for the contingent nature of evil and thus imply that the world was created perfect atthe beginning but was marred afterwards by various protagonists other than the creator.415p, fold-out illus (Golden House Publications 2010, GHP Egyptology 12) paperback, 9781906137151, $70.00.Special Offer $56.00The Kushite Cemeteryof SanamA Non-Royal Burial Groundof the Nubian Capital,ca 800–600 BCby Angelika LohwasserThe cemetery of Sanam in Nubiawas excavated in 1912 by Francis L.Griffith. The results were never fullypublished but the excavation recordsare preserved in Oxford, UK. Thisstudy evaluates these records, yieldinga detailed view on the Nubiansociety and its burial customs at thebeginning of a new African empire.160p, illus (Golden House Publications2010) paperback, 9781906137168,$39.95. Special Offer $32.00The Territory ‘W’ and Related Titlesduring the Middle Kingdom andSecond Intermediate Periodby Barbara RussoThis monograph is an in-depth study on theadministrative title ‘district overseer’ (imy-rw) and the term ‘district’ or ‘rural district’ (w)in the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (about 2050to 1650 BC). The sources demonstrate that theterritory ‘w’ was created for some particularadministrative needs at the end of the FirstIntermediate Period. From the historicalpoint of view the management of the ‘w’ fits the organization of the society created inthis period. The title is still attested in the later Middle Kingdom but lost it importance.The book contains detailed discussions on the title holders and the attestations of ‘w’.96p, 8 pls (Golden House Publications 2010, GHP Egyptology 13) paperback, 9781906137182,$55.00. Special Offer $44.00Managing Egypt’s Cultural Heritageedited by Fekri A Hassan, G J Tassie, Aloisia De Trafford,Lawrence Owens and Joris van WeteringThe archaeological record is a finite resource, which is easily destroyed without proper protection. There are anincredible number of sites and monuments everywhere in Egypt, as well as the countless artifacts in museumsand storerooms, requiring constant monitoring, protection and maintenance. Managing Egypt’s CulturalHeritage is the first volume in a series of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) discourses; this groundbreakingbook is also the first academic collection of papers dedicated to the practice of CHM in Egypt . The papersin this volume are written by specialists in their fields whose expertise cover many areas of cultural heritagemanagement, from the theoretical to the practical, and from tangible to intangible heritage, from cutting edgetechnology to simple conservation measures. The periods covered range from the Predynastic to the Copticand Islamic periods. This volume is an invaluable addition to the library of heritage managers, conservators,archaeologists, lecturers, and anyone interested in preserving Egypt ‘s cultural and natural heritage.330p (Golden House Publications 2009, ECHO Discourses on Heritage Management 1) paperback, 9781906137144,$70.00. Special Offer $56.00The David Brown Book Co. www.oxbowbooks.com — toll-free 1-800-791-9354
Golden House PublicationsForthcoming & New TitlesSoldiers, Sailors and SandalmakersA Social Reading of Ramesside Period Votive Stelaeby Karen ExellThis book sets out to explore the meaning of votive stelae to the individuals who dedicated them, andthe nature of the events that they commemorate, during the Egyptian Ramesside Period (1295–1069BC). All stelae can be described as commemorative, utilized to record a variety of types of information,from royal decrees, participation in expeditions and votive activity, to funerary texts securingofferings for the deceased. The Egyptian word for ‘stela’ is ‘wedj,’ which also has the meaning ‘proclamation,declaration, order’, and the stelae allow the information proclaimed to be commemoratedeternally. The stelae in this discussion commemorate votive activity by private individuals.213p, 16 pls (Golden House Publications 2009, GHP Egyptology 10) paperback, 9781906137106, $60.00.Special Offer $48.00Hieratic Documents from the Ramesside Periodin the Egyptian Museum of Cairoby Rahman Abdel Abdel SamieThis is a publication of 17 ostraca and 2 jar labels from the Valley of theKings. They all attribute to Th. Davis and Carter/ Carnarvon’s excavations. Thecorpus of this research has revealed that workmen likely exploited the Valleyof the Kings as a temporary settlement. This hypothesis is corroborated bythe recent excavations that discovered a wide spread of huts throughoutthe main valley along with its lateral ones. The increase in number ofworkmen that took place sometime during the ruling years of Ramses IVwould have provided the impetus to build these huts as a sort of temporaryinhabiting extension to the neighboring settlement of Deir el Medina.136p, 16 pls (Golden House Publications, October 2010, GHP Egyptology 14)paperback, 9781906137212, $60.00. Special Offer $48.00Dienstverflichtungim alten Aegyptenwährend des Altenund Mittleren Reichesby Ingelore HafemannIn this book, the authorexamines the corvee labor inOld and Middle Kingdom Egypt.Titles, institutions and wordsused for different categoriesof the working populationare analyzed in context. Inthe Old Kingdom, the Egyptian king had divine status; for this periodthere are no signs that people were forced to work. For the MiddleKingdom, harsh punishments for people fleeing state labor are attested,indicating a change in the Egyptian state. German text.248p (Golden House Publications 2009, Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie undSudanarchäologie 12) paperback, 9781906137113, $50.00.Special Offer $40.00Standards of Archaeological ExcavationsA Fieldguide to the Methology,Recording Techniques and Conventionsby Geoffrey John Tassie and Lawrence Stewart OwensWith more than 250 checklists, diagrams, photographs and tables,this field guide takes the archaeologist in Egypt from site evaluationthrough to grid systems, methods of excavation for different contexttypes, archiving, report writing and post-excavation assessment.600p, CD-ROM (Golden House Publications, October 2010) paperback,9781906137175, $70.00. Special Offer $56.00Das EreignisGeschichtsschreibung zwischen Vorfall und Strukturedited by Martin FitzenreiterPapers of a workshop on history, held in Berlin, in October 2008.There are three main chapters. “History between construct,medium and evidence” discusses what history means in the senseof a historical narrative and how it is transferred to us. History isdefined as a construct, coined by specific medial patterns andcontinually transformed over time in the shape of an archaeologicalrecord. The second chapter, “History between event, conditionand structure” deals with history as epistemological category:how events and, from this, history are made. Events evolve out ofcertain incidents by experiencing them as something extraordinary.History is shaped by the logical combination of such eventstargeting a specific objective. The final section, “Archaeology ofhistory” summarizes perspectives on the practical historiographyof ancient civilizations. It is stressed that the archaeological recordis hyper-complex on the one hand, but by no means universal onthe other; it bears practically infinite potential for historiographicalinterpretation, but at the same time always remains fragmentary.Papers mainly in German, with some English contributions.328p (Golden House Publications 2009, Internet-Beiträge zurÄgyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 10) paperback, 9781906137137,$70.00. Special Offer $56.00The David Brown Book Co. www.oxbowbooks.com — toll-free 1-800-791-9354
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