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Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries. Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Greek Inscriptions from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara. By J D Ray
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Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Greek Inscriptions from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara
EES Texts from Excavations 15. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85698-205-7. Full price: £90.00. EES Members’ price: £76.50. This volume features all the graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society between 1966 and 1971. The graffiti include dedications, lists of workmen and minor priests, a stela dedicated to the god Imhotep with an important historical content, and masons' marks which show some of the construction history of the galleries. There is also a Greek graffito listing the contents of dreams or visions, and a series of dedications on bronze temple furniture which mention a hitherto unknown god. Jars with hieroglyphic signs shed light on one of the main characters found in the Greek Hermetic literature, and a selection of ostraca give insights into the management of the animal cults.
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The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. The Mother of Apis Inscriptions Volume I. The Catalogue. Volume II. Commentaries and Plates By H S Smith, C A R Andrews and Sue Davies
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26th Dynasty, but it also had fore the EES/Durham e. This volume is the final ried out in the Northern m Rebwa, funded by the gypt Exploration Society
esearch Council. Excavations ered levels dating between the ermediate Period. The of part of a house, whose er kiln, used for firing faience uded Old Kingdom material, ntains invaluable information the different layers, the nd animal bones.
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The Mother of Apis Inscriptions Volume II. Commentaries and Plates
H. S. Smith, C. A. R. Andrews and Sue Davies E G Y P T
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EES Excavation Memoir 98. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85698-202-6. Full price: £65.00. EES Members’ price: £55.00 Sais was Egypt’s capital in the 26th Dynasty, but it also had an earlier history, unknown before the EES/Durham University/SCA work at the site, during which excavations, between 2000 and 2004, uncovered levels dating between the 20th Dynasty and the Third Intermediate Period. The report contains invaluable information about everyday rural life in the Delta, with anlayses of the different layers, the pottery and the small finds, as well as plant remains and animal bones.
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Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery 17/8/11 10:58:28
The dry height of the site of Qasr Ibrim above the Nile river has resulted in superb preservation of organic material. The textile collections from the excavations have already become one of the largest from any site in the middle Nile valley. They are unique as an unmatched sequence, dating from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty to the Late Ottoman Period and ranging from the domestic remains of town life and tiny exotic imports of the site’s great years to the cast-off garments and furnishings, pitifully mended and remended, from ages of disaster and decline. The important textiles from the Cathedral cemetery at Qasr Ibrim, including those from the burial of Bishop Timotheus, are published here with detailed descriptions and a photographic record of the most significant pieces.
EES Excavation Memoir 96. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85698-199-9. Full price: £35.00. EES Members’ price: £30.00
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Qasr Ibrim: The Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery
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Qasr Ibrim: the Textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery By Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot
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The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara
Sais I. The Ramesside-Third Intermediate Period at Kom Rebwa By Penelope Wilson
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ian Archaeology in the s worked on excavations and sr Ibrim, Tell el-Balamun and Director of the EES/Durham surveys of sites throughout urban and landscape religious life in Egypt and
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The Mother of Apis Inscriptions
The Mother of Apis inscriptions (534-41 BC), found in 1966-71 in and outside the Mother of Apis Catacomb at North Saqqara by the Egypt Exploration Society, comprise the stelae and graffiti of the masons who constructed the catacomb and of the priests who oversaw the work and conducted the burial and other rituals for the cows. The texts include genealogies of the masons and some accounts of their work and rations. This study includes transliterations, translations and explanatory notes on all the texts found, together with commentaries and indexes. E E S
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The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara
EES Texts from Excavations 14. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85698-200-2 Full price: £90.00 (two volume set). EES Members’ price: £76.50 (two volume set)
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Elisabeth Grace Crowfoot was an expert on ancient textiles and in 1976 she was invited
The dry height of the site of Qasr Ibrim above the river has resulted in superb preservation of organic material and the textile collections from the excavations have already become one of the largest from any site in the middle Nile valley. The important textiles from the Cathedral Cemetery at Qasr Ibrim, including those from the burial of Bishop Timotheus, are published here (edited for publication by Nettie Adams) with detailed descriptions and a photographic record. to join the Egypt Exploration Society’s expedition to Qasr Ibrim, after having worked in Cambridge on textiles from the Ibrim seasons in the 1960s. She worked with the
expedition until 1984, analysing, sorting, washing and cataloguing textiles as they were excavated, assisted in the field by Nettie Adams. Miss Crowfoot had completed this text before her death in 2005 and it has been edited for publication by Nettie Adams.
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EES Graeco-Roman Memoirs 97. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85698-203-3. Full price: £85.00. EES Members: £72.25 This volume publishes texts presented at the colloquium ‘New Greek Texts from Oxyrhynchus’ held in London in June 2009, and related finds. The texts include Greek drama, new sayings of Jesus and a series of Platonic dialogues. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 77. Nos.5101-5126 By A Benaissa (ed.) EES Graeco-Roman Memoirs 98. 2011. ISBN: 978-085698-204-0. Full price: £85.00. EES Members: £72.25 The first section of this volume publishes what is probably the earliest extant copy of the Septuagint Psalms. Section II collects fragments of five hexameter poems and Section III contains a miscellany of documents of the Roman and Byzantine periods. EES publications can be purchased from: The Egypt Exploration Society 3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7242 2266. Fax: +44 (0)20 7404 6118. E-mail: rob.tamplin@ees.ac.uk On-line shop: www.ees-shop.com