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The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters

£55.00
Editors:
Mark Collier and Stephen Quirke
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714622
Paperback:
218pp. Includes line drawings throughout, 10 Indeces of ‘Egyptian words’, ‘vocabulary’, ‘personal names’, ‘titles and occupations’, ‘Kings’, ‘Deities’, place names and ‘dates’. With additional material online (figures).
ISBN 10:
1841714623
BAR number:
S1083
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
The University College London Lahun (Middle Kingdom) papyri constitute one of the most remarkable harvests of papyri of any age. This volume communicates the content of the surviving letters and letter fragments from the Petrie excavations at Lahun in anaccessible and affordable format. The letters and fragments are from original letters: model letters, letter copies, and reports are reserved for future publications. The volume is intended not only for Egyptological researchers, but also for learners inhigher and further education. This mass of writing calls for a more nuanced appreciation of the roles of writing and reading, and the social reach of the written culture across the different classes, ages, genders inhabiting this architecture and landscape. (The reader will find three means of access to the original content: Printed pages with transcriptions, transliterations, and translations; A printed index; The entire collection of papyri on an accompanying CD.)