Summer Bargain Catalogue - Oxbow Books

20 Ancient Egypt
Joseph Lindon Smith
Paintings from Egypt
edited by Barbara S. Lesko.
Catalogue of an exhibition of
Smith’s paintings held at Brown
University in 1998. This slim
volume includes introductions to
the artist’s life (Barbara S. Lesko)
and to his work (Diana Wolfe Larkin). The forty plates
are nicely reproduced in color.
60p, 40 color plates (Brown University 1998) Pb was
£19.95 now £5.95
The Royal Mummies
by G. Elliot Smith.
A new edition of a classic text,
first published in 1912, which
reports on the mummies of
kings, queens and lesser nobles
found at Deir el-Bahri and in the
tomb of Amenophis. It includes
discussions of the mummies of Ahmose, Tuthmosis
III, Amenophis III, Akhenaten and more besides. With
many photographs of the human remains.
224p with 103 b/w pls, 20 figs (Duckworth 2000) Pb
was £25.00 now £7.95
The Secrets of Tomb 10A
Egypt 2000 BC
by Rita E. Freed et al.
A beautifully illustrated study
of the Middle Kingdom tomb of
Djehutynakht in Deir el-Bersha,
imaginatively dubbed Tomb 10A,
and its spectacular collection of
artefacts. As well as describing its rediscovery and
excavation, the book provides information on the
Middle Kingdom political and religious context, and a
detailed examination of the burial goods.
224p col illus (Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2009) Hb
was £46.00 now £12.95
Ramesside Administrative
Documents
by AH Gardiner.
This volume contains hiero glyphic
tran scriptions of 26 hieratic
documents, inckuding such texts
as the Turin Strike papyrus, the
Gurob fragments and parts of the
Journalk of the Theban Necropolis.
125p (Griffith Institute 1995) Hb was £25.00 now
£12.95
Tutankhamun’s Egypt
by Frances Welsh.
This book discusses the historical,
archaeological and artistic aspects
of Tutankhamun’s brief reign and
interprets the objects from his
tomb, the paintings on its walls
and its location. The reign is seen
as one of transition from the
monotheistic Amarna period to a re-embracing of the
old religious orthodoxies, reflected in the artwork of
the tomb and its furnishings.
80p with 65 figs and illus. (Shire Egyptology 19, 1993,
2nd ed 2007) Pb was £6.99 now £3.50
Debeira West
A Medieval Nubian Town
by P.L. Shinnie and Margaret
Shinnie.
Excavated in advance of the
Aswan Dam in 1961–64, Debeira
turned out to be a flourishing
urban center between the 8th–
11th C AD. This report describes the architecture,
ecclesiastical and domestic, together with the objects
found, to provide a detailed record of daily life at that
time and place.
107p, many b/w illus, 53 pls (Aris & Phillips 1978) Hb
was £42.00 now £19.95
The Akhenaten Temple
Project, Volume 2
Rwd-mnw and Inscriptions
by Donald Redford.
This volume contains hitherto
unpublished talatat scenes from
the temple Rwd-Mnw, matched
from blocks in the concession
of the Akhanaten Temple Project. As well as these
reliefs, the volume contains five papers on previously
published material.
177p, 16p b/w figs, 43p b/w pls (Akhenaten Temple
Project 1988) Pb was £30.00 now £7.95
Delta Reports 1
Research in Lower Egypt
edited by Donald B. Redford.
Publishes work done in and
around the temple of Ba-nebdjed
in the North-west temenos
at Tel er-Rub’a (Mendes), material
that was previously published in
the ATP newsletter by the Akhenaten Temple Project
(now discontinued).
216p, 33 illus, 27 b/w pls (Oxbow Books 2009) Pb was
£40.00 now £4.95
The Papyrus of Hor
by Malcolm Mosher Jr.
Publishes and analyses one of
the last Books of the Dead to
have been produced in Egypt,
the Papyrus of Hor from Akhim,
which comprises 38 spells and
33 vignettes, and provides a
good insight into the thoughts and beliefs of the
priests working in the temple of the god Min.
108p, 34 b/w and col pls (British Museum 2001) Hb
was £60.00, now £14.95
Some Geographical Notes
on Ancient Egypt
by Alessandra Nibbi.
Collected papers by Alessandra
Nibbi. They are largely concerned
with the physical aspects of
ancient Egypt – the identification
of places, the meaning of words,
plant types, interpetation of hieroglyphs and Egyptian
concepts of geography
423p b/w illus (DE Publications 1997) Pb was £40.00
now £9.95
Petrie’s Naqada Excavation
A Supplement
by Elise J Baumgartel.
Much of the author’s career has
been spent compiling a card
index of every object identified as
originating at Neqada near Luxor.
This index, presented in tables,
forms the bulk of this book. The index, wherever
possible, connects objects with entries in Petrie’s
notebooks and ties them in to particular graves.
75p (Baumgartel 1970) Hb £25.00 now £9.95
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
The Annexe and the Treasury
by Howard Carter.
Originally published in 1933, this
third volume in Howard Carter’s
trilogy of books describes the
discovery and investigation of
the annexe and treasury, two
store rooms containing a wealth of funerary gifts for
the king.
256p, 80 b/w pls (Duckworth 2000) Pb was £18.99
now £6.95
Ancient Byblos
Reconsidered
by Alessandra Nibbi.
This study aims to debunk much
of what has been written about
links between Byblos and Ancient
Egypt, finding no real evidence
for the large scale trade in cedar
wood which is often postulated.
127p b/w illus (Alessandra Nibbi 1985) Pb was £9.50
now £3.95
The Official Gift in Ancient
Egypt
by Edward Bleiberg.
Economic anthropology is used
here to gain a fuller understanding
of the long-standing practice of
the official exchanging of gifts
between individuals of unequal
status ( inw -exchange). To overcome the problem of
patchy and biased sources, the author first proposes
a model to study this social obligation. This identifies
reciprocity and redistribution at work, instead of the
profit-making goal usually assumed active
174p. (Oklahoma UP 1996) Hb £29.95 now £8.95
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
The Burial Chamber
by Howard Carter.
This is a reprint of Howard Carter’s
report on the second and third
seasons of excavations at the
tomb of Tutankhamun, originally
published in 1927. It details `the
opening of the four protective shrines; the discovery
within Tutankhamun’s quartz-sandstone sarcophagus;
the extraction of the king’s three anthropoid coffins..
and the final examination of the pharaoh’s splendidly
bejewelled mummy’.
367, 88 b/w pls (Duckworth 2001) Pb was £18.99
now £6.95