Egyptological Studies - Oxbow Books

Peeters PublishersForthcoming & New TitlesEugnosteLettre sur le Dieu transcendant (NH III, 3 et V, 1): Commentaireby A PasquierDiscovered in a Coptic manuscript from the 4th century, the text called Eugnostos is certainly of older origin and can be dated to the firsthalf of the second century AD. It is characterized by the importance given to the myth of Primeval Man, who is the manifest form of the supremeGod. This volume analyzes the version of the Eugnostos text preserved in the Codices III and V from Nag Hammadi. French text.290p (Peeters Publishers, September 2010, Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi. Section Textes 33) paperback, 9789042921382, $102.00. Special Offer $82.00Elkab and BeyondStudies in Honour of Luc Limmeedited by W Claes, H De Meuelenaere and S HendrickxThis volume honours Dr Luc Limme with 34 contributions from his friends and colleagues on awide variety of topics concerning the study of ancient Egypt. The first set of articles focuses on thesite of Elkab; among them are reports of fieldwork as well as studies dealing with the more recenthistory of this important site. Articles in the next section investigate issues of Egyptian history,with an emphasis on the later periods, and include archaeological, art historical, papyrologicaland philological topics, reflecting Luc Limme’s wide ranging interests in the field of Egyptology.557p (Peeters Publishers 2009, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 191) hardback, 9789042922396, $130.00.Special Offer $104.00Sitting Beside LepsiusStudies in Honour of Jaromir Malekat the Griffith Instituteedited by Diana Magee, Janine Bourriauand Stephen QuirkeThis volume presents contributions from thirtycolleagues in honour of Jaromir Malek, for hisinspirational role, both in Egyptology morewidely, and in the direction of the TopographicalBibliography section of the Griffith Institute, atthe Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The papersreflect the encyclopaedic variety of his interestsand research. Several focus on the primaryevidence for the past, from Old Kingdom toLate Period sculpture, and from the pyramidsto the cat in ancient Egypt. Among the workspreserved in museum collections or unearthedin recent excavation, some items are publishedfor the first time, while other papers bring outthe wider significance of specific monuments ormonument-types. The remaining authors consideran international spectrum of written and pictorialarchives, material which Jaromir Malek, morethan any of us, has made accessible and taught usto value as primary evidence in a particular form.604p (Peeters Publishers 2009, OrientaliaLovaniensia Analecta 185) hardback,9789042921719, $124.00. Special Offer $100.00Le méroïtiqueet sa famille linguistiqueby C RillyThe linguistic family of Meroitic, thelanguage of the pharaonic kingdomof Meroë/Kush in Sudan, has been asubject of lively discussion for more than acentury. Was it Kushite, Nilo-Saharian, orisolated like Sumerian and Etruscan? Thisvolume proposes its placement within anew branch of the linguistic family tree,called “North-west Sudanic” (soudaniqueoriental nord [SON]). French text.557p (Peeters Publishers 2010, Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques deFrance 454) paperback, 9789042922372, $66.00. Special Offer $53.00L’iconographie de la barque processionnelle divineen Égypte au Nouvel Empireby C KarlshausenThis volume studies the representations and iconography of processionalbarques carrying the images of gods during the New Kingdom, of which theBark of Amun is the most well-known example. Working with visual andtextual sources, it places the scenes within their chronological and religiouscontext from the Middle Kingdom to Graeco-Roman times. French text.418p (Peeters Publishers 2009, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 182) hardback,9789042921184, $109.00. Special Offer $88.00The David Brown Book Co. www.oxbowbooks.com — toll-free 1-800-791-9354