Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt (Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies.) [Hardcover]

Sherif El-Sabban (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0853236232 | ISBN-13: 978-0853236238 | Publication Date: April 1, 2000 | Edition: First Edition

In this work, an attempt is made to gather together all the known examples of Ancient Egyptian temple calendars, to reconstruct them whenever practicable and to give the history of this kind of document. The book covers periods from the Archaic all the way to the Greco-Roman. The plates include photographs of the Ramesses II Abydos calendar never previously published.

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• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press; First Edition edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0853236232
• ISBN-13: 978-0853236238
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,525,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Precise treatment of the available temple records, January 28, 2011

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This review is from: Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt (Liverpool Monographs in Archaeology and Oriental Studies.) (Hardcover)

This book is for the total Egypt enthusiast/ scholar, and gives a detailed translation of the various texts that have come to use age by age regarding the ancient festivals. It is extremely thorough in that regard but my only criticism is that it does not give adequate background on the Egyptian calender to which the dates relate. The so called civic calender was a floating calender within the overall sothic calender, and therefor from year to year the dates of some festivals change as do the solstices etc. There is an interesting book on the calender The Egyptian Calendar a Work for Eternity which gives the needed background. Otherwise very informative but not for light reading.