SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology Books

Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , 1993. Slight wear on cover. This is an ancient Egyptian mortuary text preserved in four manuscripts, located in Berlin, Strasbourg, Paris and Oxford. All are written in Demotic script and date to the early part of the 1st century AD. The purpose of this liturgy was threefold: to revivify the deceased oerson for whom it was recited, to provide them with offerings in the form of clothing and sustenance, to reintegrate them within the cosmos, ensuring their ... more information

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New York, N.Y., USA: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. Wear to edges. Cover has wear, rubbing, original price sticker on back.. ISBN: 0486274861. Trade Paperback. Very Good. EGYPTIAN EGYPT LANGUAGE READING HIEROGLYPHS HIEROGLYPHICS ANCIENT HISTORY TRANSLITERATION ENGLISH TRANSLATION ARCHAEOLOGY. ... more information

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Edinburgh, UK: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899. Wear to edges. Cover has wear, rubbing, sunning to top edge and spine. Some foxing on front and back end pages.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND SCOTTISH PREHISTORIC HISTORY UNITED KINGDOM. ... more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , 2003. Wear to edges. Dustjacket has wear, rubbing.. ISBN: 1885923228. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. MEDINET HABU ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPT EGYPTOLOGY SCARABS SCARABOIDS SEALS SEAL IMPRESSIONS TOMBS EXCAVATION RECORDS CATALOG CATALOGUE ARTIFACTS ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY. ... more information

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Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation, 1981. 56 pages illustrated with photos and drawings. 56 pages. Stapled card covers - wear on edges, rubbing and creasing.. ISBN: 0774362421. Card Covers. Good. FIRST NATIONS ABORIGINAL PEOPLE INDIANS ONTARIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY CULTURE. ... more information

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London, England: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. Wear to edges. Cover has wear, rubbing, bumped on top foredge corner, worn through on top and bottom corners of spine edge. Cutting errors on title page and contents pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. SYRIA PALESTINE SYRIAN ANCIENT HISTORY PALESTINIAN MDDLE EAST EASTERN CANAAN SINAI PENINSULA TAURUS CHAIN MEDITERRANEAN HOLY LAND ARCHAEOLOGY. ... more information

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London, England: Egypt Exploration Society , 1983. Dustjacket has wear on edges, spine sunned. Corners bumped. 225 pages plus 17 B&W plates.. ISBN: 0856980846 . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. EGYPT EGYPTOLOGY EGYPTIAN DEMOTIC PAPYRUS PAPYRI HISTORY ANTIQUITIES ARCHAEOLOGY. ... more information

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Firenze, Italy: Leo S. Olschki-Editore, 1975. A reprint of an article from Studi Etruschi. Illustrated with B&W photos. There are some ink checkmarks underneath some of the pictures.. Soft Cover. Good. ETRUSCAN ITALIC ITALIAN ITALY ROMAN ARTIFACTS ANTIQUITIES POTTERY VASES JEWELLERY BRONZES. ... more information

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Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute, 1982. Dustjacket has wear, rubbing. This is a companion volume to Composite Bows from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, in which the author completes the full publication of all the items relating to archery. The catalogue deals in detail with the fourteen self bows and the many arrows found in the tomb, together with the decorated bow-case, the bow box, the two quivers, and two pairs of bracers. There are comparative notes on other Egyptian material, and an Appendix with some import... more information

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Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute, 1970. The results of meticulous study of 32 composite bows and some fragments found in the tomb of Tutankhmaun are presented in this book. In the Catalogue each bow is described in detail; in the Morphological Commentary the special features of the composite bow (length, profile, materials, decoration, etc.) are discussed in more general terms; and the Historical Commentary concerns the place of manufacture of these weapons and their performance. The plates show the original ... more information

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Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press, 2000. Wear to edges. Cover has wear, rubbing, crease on top back corner.. ISBN: 0801485762. Trade Paperback. Very Good. EGYPT EGYPTIAN ANCIENT HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPTOLOGY CLEOPATRA PTOLEMY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD DYNASTY. ... more information

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Oxford, UK: Griffith Institute, 1982. Wear to edges. Dustjacket has wear, rubbing. This book covers the gaming material found in the tomb, namely the gameboxes and the playing pieces, the sets of casting-sticks, and the knuckle-bones. The several items are fully described in the catalogue, with individual comments on matters of interest, and there is a general discussion concerning the method of play. The plates incorporate Burton's original photographs, photographs made by the author, drawings of some co... more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: The Royal Ontario Museum, 1977. Volume I-A Catalogue, Volume II-The Text. Volume 2 has black felt marker stripe on bottom edge.. ISBN: 088854023X. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. CHINA CHINESE ORIENTAL ARTIFACTS SHANG DYNASTY ORACLE BONES. ... more information

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London, England: The British Museum Press, 2001. Dustjacket has slight rubbing, scratching. The Papyrus of Hor is published here with the comtemporary MacGregor Papyrus with full photographic reproduction and colour photographs of some of the finest vignettes. Addendum sheet laid in. 108 pages plus 4 pages of colour plates and 30 pages of B&W plates.. ISBN: 0714119490 . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. EGYPT EGYPTOLOGU EGYPTIAN PAPYRUS HOT PAPYRI BOOKS DEAD BRITISH MUSEUM ANTIQUITIES HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY. ... more information

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