Ancient Egypt is well known for its towering monuments and magnificent statuary, but other aspects of its civilization are less well known, especially its written texts. Now Texts from the Pyramid Age provides ready access to new translations of a representative selection of texts ranging from the historically significant to the repetitive formulae of the tomb inscriptions from Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2700–2170 B.C.). These royal and private inscriptions, coming from both the secular and religious milieus and from all kinds of physical contexts, not only shed light on the administration, foreign expeditions, and funerary beliefs of the period but also bring to life the Egyptians themselves, revealing how they saw the world and how they wanted the world to see them. Strudwick’s helpful introduction to the history and literature of this seminal period provides important background for reading and understanding these historical texts. Like other volumes in the SBL’s Writings from the Ancient World series, this work will soon become a standard with students and scholars alike.
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Nigel C. Strudwick is Assistant Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, at The British Museum. He has worked in Egypt since 1979, since 1984 in the “Tombs of the Nobles” at Luxor. He is the co-author, with Helen Strudwick, of Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor, and co-editor, with Helen Strudwick, of The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture.
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This book is a great source for anyone that wishes to know in there own words the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom from the 3rd to the 6th Dynasties the ages when Egypt built pyramids for its kings. You will find translations of inscriptions from the lowly laborer fot the king to the King himself. There are biographical texts, and mundane events and even some of the queens hopes and desires were recorded and passed down to us from the centers of the Old Kingdom, Memphis to inscriptions by expeditions to quarrying sites and the provinces (nomes). What surprised me was the number that are in my local museum listed in the book and translated form the hieroglyphic language of millenias ago. It is a great source for Egyptian names as well.
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The Old Kingdom is the earliest major historical period of ancient Egypt to leave behind a considerable body of continuous writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
iry pat, grown old most, whose perfect name, merhet oil, pezen bread, excellent akh, funerary estate, sekhet grain, nebes fruit, wah fruit, bodily daughter, two pyramid towns, invocation offerings, royal acquaintance, later fifth dynasty, royal master builder, majesty promoted, middle fifth dynasty, southern foreign lands, mid fifth dynasty, fourteenth nome, lector priest, royal colonists, twelfth nome, nth occasion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower Egypt, Old Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Great God, Two Ladies, Western Cemetery, Two Lands, Great Mansion, Giza Tomb, Golden Horns, Central Cemetery, Palermo Stone, Middle Kingdom, Old Egyptian, Horns Merytawy, Middle Egyptian, Wadi Maghara, New Kingdom, Min of Koptos, Horns Netjerykhau, South Saqqara, New York, Pyramid Texts, Decree of Neferkauhor, Inscriptions of Pepy New!
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The Old Kingdom is the earliest major historical period of ancient Egypt to leave behind a considerable body of continuous writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
iry pat, grown old most, whose perfect name, merhet oil, pezen bread, excellent akh, funerary estate, sekhet grain, nebes fruit, wah fruit, bodily daughter, two pyramid towns, invocation offerings, royal acquaintance, later fifth dynasty, royal master builder, majesty promoted, middle fifth dynasty, southern foreign lands, mid fifth dynasty, fourteenth nome, lector priest, royal colonists, twelfth nome, nth occasion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lower Egypt, Old Kingdom, Upper Egypt, Great God, Two Ladies, Western Cemetery, Two Lands, Great Mansion, Giza Tomb, Golden Horns, Central Cemetery, Palermo Stone, Middle Kingdom, Old Egyptian, Horns Merytawy, Middle Egyptian, Wadi Maghara, New Kingdom, Min of Koptos, Horns Netjerykhau, South Saqqara, New York, Pyramid Texts, Decree of Neferkauhor, Inscriptions of Pepy New!
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