JUST PUBLISHED

Lena Kaumanns

Funktionswandel im Stadtzentrum des spätantiken Ostia: Eine Neuuntersuchung der Casa della Basilica und der Aula del Buon Pastore

250 pages, many illustrations

The political and administrative centre of Ostia underwent substantial changes in Late Antiquity (4th century – 7th century AD). This book exemplifies these changes with a detailed analysis of the ‘Casa della Basilica’ and the ‘Aula del Buon Pastore’, a building complex at the Decumanus Maximus near the main Forum. Based on archival records, new excavations, and a re-analysis of previous finds, the author provides a complex building history. The book includes a report on the 2010–2012 excavations, a catalogue of finds, and an evaluation of different interpretations of the building complex.

£60

ISBN 978-1906137908

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Jan Moje
Schabtis und verwandte
Figurinen
mit den Beständen der Berliner
Antikensammlung, Des Museums für
Vor- und Frühgeschichte und des
Vorderasiatischen Museums.
Dritte Zwischenzeit, Teil 1

CAA loose leaf cataloge, 284 pages, most images in colour

January 2025

£120

ISBN 9781906137854

This volume of the CAA Berlin series contains the second part of the shabti collections from Berlin, those of the Third Intermediate Period . (German text)

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Marisol Solchaga

The Earthly Realm:
‘Offering-trays’ as material traces of the encounter between the living and the dead in Egypt, ca. 2200-1650 BC

(2024)

This volume examines the traces of ritual acts performed during less affluent burials, focusing on the use of 'offering-trays' as a case study. These pottery artefacts are dated to the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom and typically feature pottery models on their surface. Those with attached architectural elements have traditionally been classified as 'soul-houses'.
This volume prefers to categorise them as 'offering-trays', considering the architectural element to be just one of the models represented on them.

This research aims to explore the function of these artefacts through the analysis of their physical features,
the models depicted on them, and their archaeological context. It aims to shed light on their significance as part of the material interplay between the living and the dead.

342 Pages (A4) many colour images

£100

ISBN 9781906137892

GHP Egytology 38

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Jan Moje

Schabtis und verwandte Figurinen

Mit den Beständen der Berliner Antikensammlung, des Museums für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und des Vorderasiatischen Museums

Band 2

This third CAA series volume for the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin consists of the second and final part of the New Kingdom funerary statuettes
(shabtis) in the Berlin collection.

£120

215 Pages, loose leaf catalogue, mainly colour images

ISBN 9781906137847

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Clay Figurines in Context: Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubian, and Levantine Societies
in the Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BC) and Beyond

edited by
Gianluca Miniaci, Cristina Alù, Camilla Saler, Vanessa Forte

MKS 17

ISBN 978-1-906137-86-1

paperback, A4, 490 pages

£85

Since prehistory, ancient Egyptians crafted figurines depicting humans, animals, and other subjects. However, scholars have largely overlooked the category of clay figurines, both fired and unfired, due to the perceived lack of value of the material and variable preservation of their organic material composition. Despite this, clay figurines offer a unique glimpse into ancient peoples' ideas, gestures, and attitudes, particularly when shaped by hand. Their prevalence, malleability, and portability make them accessible to people of all economic and social backgrounds. This volume focuses on Egyptian clay figurines from the Bronze Age, ranging from approximately 2100 to 1550 BC, and also includes examples from the neighboring countries of Nubia and the Levant, as they are the most immediate corresponding partners in terms of diffusion and entanglement of material culture. The papers in this volume aim to examine previously under- or unexplored topics relating to clay figurines, such as their archaeological context, manufacturing techniques, technological processes, classification, agency, and social significance. Additionally, two sections of the volume will be dedicated to comparative material from the 4th and 3rd millennium BC and the Late Bronze Age.

 

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Claudia Näser

Der Alltag des Todes

Funeräre Praktiken in Deir el-Medine im Neuen Reich

GHP Egyptology 35

708 pages, A4,

PRINT version - hard cover - £100

ISBN 978-1-906137809
ISBN 978-1-906137885 (e-book)

 

In  Der Alltag des Todes , Claudia Näser explores mortuary practices in New Kingdom Egypt (1470-1070 BC) based on a dataset from Deir el-Medina, the community of workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Highly skilled, these workmen also constructed their own tombs in the cemeteries around Deir el-Medina. Their use of mortuary consumption to negotiate professional and social positions led to the development of a commercial sector for the production of decorated funerary objects, primarily coffins, with an accompanying textual record. Combining archaeological and textual evidence, Claudia Näser outlines the development of mortuary practices in this tightly-knit community across four hundred years. She reconstructs and systematizes the processes of assembling the burial equipment and the mechanics of the burial itself. She also discusses a range of later 'intracultural' interventions, in­cluding grave plundering and subsequent inspections, tidying-up and reburial. Using a micro-historical approach, Claudia Näser reveals a multi­dimen­si­onal network of actors and factors that con­ditioned mortuary expressions: religious concepts, access to knowledge and economic resources, individual and collective experiences and aspirations, as well as the contingencies of when and how someone died. Across 700 pages,  Der Alltag  reveals a uniquely detailed panorama of ancient Egyptian mortuary practices.

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(the PDF is searchable, for the transliteration please follow the 'keys' of Trlit_CG Times
https://dmd.wepwawet.nl/fonts.htm)

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Eva Lange-Athinodorou

Bubastis: city of the feline goddess

Archaeological discoveries in a metropolis of the Egyptian Nile Delta

182 pages, around 50 colour images

£45

ISBN 9781906137878

For more than three millennia, the city of Bubastis was one of the most important cities of the Nile Delta and all of Egypt.
It was the cult centre of the lioness goddess Bastet, who became most famous in her later form as a sacred cat.
The Greek historian Herodotus visited the city and gave a lively description of its temple and the famous cultic festivals of the goddess. Although the temple of Bastet is badly
destroyed, excavations in the last 150 years have revealed much of its grandeur.
Apart from the temple, the ancient site boasts other important monuments and buildings, including palaces, residences,
further temples, and extensive cemeteries, some of which are unique in Egyptian archaeology.
Eva Lange-Athinodorou, the director of the Tell Basta Project, a German-Egyptian archaeological mission at Bubastis, provides a vivid summary of its archaeological remains,
combining old results with the latest research conducted by the project.

 

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Jan Moje

Schabtis und verwandte Figurinen

Mit den Beständen der Berliner Antikensammlung, des Museums für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und des Vorderasiatischen Museums

Band 1:

Mittleres Reich und Neues Reich (Stein, Ton, Fayence)

CORPUS ANTIQUITATUM AEGYPTIACARUM

318 pages, loose leaf catalogue , ISBN 978-1-906137-82-3

(London 2023)

 

This volume of the CAA Berlin series contains the first part of the shabti collections from Berlin, those of the Middle Kingdom
and the New Kingdom from the materials stone, faience, and pottery.

£100

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Kelly-Anne Diamond

A Study of the Sacred District Scene in Private Tomb Decoration

GHP Egyptology 37

ISBN 978-1-906137-83-0, 167 plus vi pages, A4, paperback, many colour photos

London 2023

£60

A Study of the Sacred District Scene in Private Tomb Decoration compiles images from almost forty tombs, dating to the New Kingdom or later, and breaks down the different micro-scenes that can make up a Sacred District scene. These scenes are comprised of combinations of the seventeen different episodes, or micro-scenes, and are generally embedded within the funerary scenes in any given tomb. They typically appear in the passage of a T-shaped tomb and are the last scene before the deceased has reached the hereafter, thus suggesting that the Sacred District represents a liminal area the dead must traverse before the afterlife. The Sacred District reaches its peak in popularity during the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III of the eighteenth dynasty but can still be found in some late period tombs that exhibit archaizing trends. Examples are found on the west bank of Thebes and at Elkab and Hierakonpolis.

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Melanie Pitkin

Egypt in the First Intermediate Period: The History and Chronology of its False Doors and Stelae

Middle Kingdom Studies 13

ISBN: 9781906137816, A4, paperback, 369 pages and 13 colour plates

London 2023

£85

This volume provides a detailed study of false doors and funerary stelae from the First Intermediate Period, providing new historical and chronological insights. Five dating criteria are applied to 677 false doors and stelae. The criteria include: (1) the hybrid false door stela; (2) the representation of the wedjat eyes; (3) mutilated and suppressed hieroglyphs; (4) the representation of the owner holding a bow and arrows and, (5) the writing of the ‘revered one' ( jmAxw and its variants). The study looks at Egypt during the First Intermediate Period on a national level, rather than as a limited group of nomes, showing how particular styles, iconographic peculiarities and political and religious ideologies ‘travelled' between nomes or, perhaps, remained entirely local. The study also establishes a relative dating typology for particular groupings of false doors and stelae, providing a new chronological benchmark for dating other objects and events of the time.

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Markus Wallas

Menschenköpfige Herzskarabäen im Kontext. Archäologie, Philologie und Kulturgeschichte

(Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 25)

214 pages, A4, paperback

ISBN 978-1906137779

UK price:£60

London 2023

Heart scarabs are inscribed with spell 30B from the Book of the Dead and are usually depicted with a beetle head, but a very small number of such amulets show the scarab with a human face or head.
One of these extraordinary objects was found during recent excavations in Zawyet Sultan, Middle Egypt. Based on the analysis and discussion of this newly excavated object, this publication will shed new light on the context of human faced heart scarabs from a philological, archaeological and historico-cultural perspective (German text).

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Ripple in still water when there is no pebble tossed
Festschrift in Honour of Cary J. Martin (GHP Egyptology 34)
edited by
Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Michel Chauveau
Koen Donker van Heel, Kim Ryholt

308 pages, A4, paperback

UK £85

ISBN 978-1-906137-76-2

London 2022

This Festschrift in honour of Cary J. Martin presents twenty contributions of his friends and colleagues,
ranging from articles on Persian and Graeco-Roman Egypt to twenty-two (re-)editions of documentary and literary texts written in Egyptian
(Hieroglyphs, Hieratic and Demotic) and Greek. Many of these are published here for the first time.

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Gunnar Sperveslage (ed.),

Early Egyptian MiscellaniesDiscussions and Essays on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

(Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 26)

London 2022

This book collects papers from various authors on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, covering archaeology, iconography, philology, lexicography, history, and history of research. The contributions provide insight into current research and offer new theories and observations on specific objects and aspects. This includes for instance neglected details of well-known objects, detailed discussion of forgotten objects, new interpretations of inscriptions, and analysis of hieroglyphic signs and their functions. (Contributions in English and German)

Contents page HERE

ISBN 978-1-906137-78-6

price £45

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Gianluca Miniaci, Wolfram Grajetzki (eds)

The World of the Middle Kingdom III

Middle Kingdom Studies 12

2022

359 pages, 16 colour plates ISBN 978-1-906137-74-8; £80

22 Essays on Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt. The articles include a high number of first time published objects.

price £80

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Mohamed Osman Abdollah

Trade centers and Trade routes in Upper Egypt,
during the Old and Middle Kingdoms

290 pages, richly illustrated, A4, paperback

GHP Egyptology 36

2022

ISBN 9781906137793

price £80

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Gianluca Miniaci, Peter Lacovara (eds)

The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1550 BCE)

(Middle Kingdom Studies 11)

312 page, plus 16 colour plates; paperback A4 ISBN 9781906137724
price £80

The personal adornments and objects from the burial of Queen Ahhotep belong to one of the most spectacular finds from Ancient Egypt. The history of their discovery is still a mystery. Even the identity of the queen is not fully solved. The twelve essays in this volume tackle different problems around the objects from the tomb of the queen.

March 2022

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Gunnar Sperveslage

Die frühen Inschriften Ägyptens. Eine Konkordanz der Nummerierungssysteme

(Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 24)

224 pages, A4, paperback

ISBN 978-1- 906137-75-5

£ 45 (UK)

This publication provides a concordance of numbering systems addressing the Early Egyptian inscriptions (Dyn. 0–3). The numbering system, which was originally introduced by J. Kahl (1994) and which was expanded by I. Regulski in her “Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions”, is mapped on the numbering system defined by J. Kahl, N. Kloth and U. Zimmermann (1995) for the 3 rd Dynasty inscription and on the numbering of P. Kaplony (IÄF, IÄFS, KBIÄF). An overview of the different systems and some background information are given in the introduction. Furthermore, as a final goal of this publication, the numbering system has been expended to provide a unique identifier for each inscription that can be used as a reference in databases and printed publications. (German introduction).

(November 2021)

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Jana Helmbold-Doyé

Pharos (Alexandria)
Insel der Gräber und Heiligtümer

(Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie 23)

502 pages, A4, paperback

ISBN 978-1-906137-73-1

This book provides a first-time overview of all archaeological remains from the necropolises Anfuschi and Ras el-Tin in Alexandria, which can be located on the ancient island of Pharos. The individual chapters contain detailed information on the architecture, wall paintings of tombs and cultic installations. In addition, the previously unpublished finds are finally documented through numerous drawings and photos with detailed descriptions. In particular, the movable goods of Pharos reflect the burial customs of Alexandria from the late Ptolemaic era to the early Roman Empire. Furthermore, this volume includes old archival material, such as photographs and drawings, and thus provides a comprehensive overview of the complex hypogea (tombs). Together with new interpretations, this publication conveys a complete picture of a small island at the gates of Alexandria (German text).

 

price: £100 (UK) - 140 $ (US)

September 2021

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Akhet Neheh -Studies in Honour of Willem Hovestreydt on Occasion of His 75th Birthday

edited by Anke Weber, Martina Grünhagen, Lea Rees, Jan Moje

GHP Egyptology 33

168 pages, including 8 colour plates

November 2020, paper back

ISBN 978-1-906137-70-0

£60 - $120

This Festschrift contains current research about the symbolism of hieroglyphs, religious texts, depictions and graffiti
from the royal tomb KV 11 and museum objects from Leyden, Chicago, Cambridge, Paris and Berlin.
It covers i.a. the virtual reunion of the sarcophagus of Ramesses III and of a statue of Ramesses VI.

Preface.

John Baines - Willem Hovestreydt and the Annual/Online Egyptological Bibliography: an Appreciation

René van Walsem - Reinterpreting Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar, Sign-List N5: :“ra”, ‘sun’

Louis Zonhoven - Does the Fox Hide Cunningly Even from Egyptian Dictionaries?

Nigel Strudwick - The Payment List for the Lector Priest on the Relief of Merymery in Leiden

Judith Bunbury and Karin Schinken - Preliminary Report on the Geology, Stonemasonry and Plaster Remains in the Tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11)

Lea Rees and Helen Strudwick - The Sarcophagus Ensemble of Ramesses III from KV 11: New Insights from Old Documents and Recent Finds

Gareth Rees - Reuniting and Recontexualising the Sarcophagus of Ramesses III Using Photogrammetric Modeling

Rob Demarée - Ancient Visitor’s Graffiti in the Tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11)

Anke Weber - Die Farbe Gelb als „roter Faden“ in KV 11. Zur Bedeutung und bewussten Verwendung der Farbe Gelb im Grab Ramses’ III. im Tal der Könige

Dora Petrova - From Invisible Traces to Invincible Ritual. Reconstructing the Opening of the Mouth Ritual in the Tomb of Ramesses III

Jan Moje - Bemerkungen zur Kanope Ramses’ IV. im Ägyptischen Museum Berlin (ÄM 8424)

Rob Demarée und Lara Weiss - Ein fast vergessener Brief vereinigt Ramses VI. aus Leiden und Chicago

Jan Koek - The Role of Taweret in Gebel el-Silsila

 

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Alice Stevenson and Joris van Wetering (editors)

The Many Histories of Naqada

This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes nineteenth-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie through to surveys conducted in the twentieth century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s. It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage. Together the volume argues that the Naqada region in worthy of renewed critical attention and is a more dynamic and complex landscape than has generally been acknowledged.

190 pages, paperback, A4

June 2020, paper back

ISBN 9781906137694

£60 - $120

 

Preface: Dedication Geoffrey J. Tassie, ‘Tass’, 1959–2019. - Jo Rowland and Joris van Wetering

Introduction - Alice Stevenson and Joris van Wetering

Chapter 1: An Archaeological History of Naqada Sites- Geoffrey J. Tassie and Joris van Wetering

Chapter 2: The Archival Record of W.M.F. Petrie’s 1894–5 Excavations in the Predynastic Cemeteries of - Alice Stevenson

Chapter 3: Naqada Seen Through the Archives of the IUO Italian Archaeological Mission (1977–1986) - Grazia A. Di Pietro

Chapter 4: Nubt During the Fourth Millennium BC - Joris van Wetering and Geoffrey J. Tassie

Chapter 5: The Cemeteries of Nubt: An Intricate Funerary Landscape of the Fourth Millennium BC - Joris van Wetering

Chapter 6: Reconsidering Cemetery N T (north) at Nubt - Joris van Wetering

Chapter 7: Naqada in Pharaonic Times. - Wolfram Grajetzki

Chapter 8: Christian Heritage in the Naqada Region. - Renate Dekker

Chapter 9: The Past, Present and Future of the Naqada Region. - Geoffrey J. Tassie, with addendum by Joanne M. Rowland and Joris van Wetering

 

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Simon Connor

Être et paraître, Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire
et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.)

text in French, English and Arabic summaries

ISBN: 9781906137663, 638 pages, hardcover, about 600 bw photos

April 2020

£75 - $150

 

This volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture.
Style, material and dating are discussed in length. The book is well illustrated (more than 100 b/w plates) and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.

 

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Helmut Satzinger

‘Is there not one among you who understands Egyptian?’
The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar

GHP Egyptology 31

paperback, 170 pages, £35

ISBN 9781906137670

£35 - $70

 

Late Egyptian — the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) — is a
distinct episode in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic language. It is a vivid, fresh idiom, compared with the timehonoured Classical Egyptian language of the hieroglyphic texts.
The vocabulary used is to a large extent new, it is obviously pronounced differently from the traditional language, and it is spelled in a characteristic way. The idiom also
follows new grammatical rules. Usually it is described from a more historical standpoint, on the background of the
older language, Middle Egyptian. Here, however, is an account of its structure that is independent of the languages'
older phases. Sufficient space is given to phonetics and spelling, as well as morphology and syntax (on all its levels).
The books deals with clauses of all sorts, like attributive, circumstance and noun clauses, narrative & conjunctive
clauses as well as conditional and temporal clauses. The final part is devoted to the focalising constructions, so
characteristic of Egyptian in general. The presentation of the grammar is illustrated by original text quotations; they are rendered in hieroglyphs, in
transcription and in translation.

February 2020

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Aaron M. de Souza

New Horizons: The Pan-Grave ceramic tradition in context

(Middle Kingdom Studies)

280 pages, including 8 colour plates.

ISBN 9781906137656

This volume serves as a catalogue and handbook for the description for  Pan-Grave ceramics, and that considers the Pan-Grave tradition and its ceramic production within the broader socio-cultural framework of Ancient Egypt and Nubia during the mid-Second Millennium BC.

£60 - $120

August 2019

 

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Danijela Stefanović, Helmut Satzinger

Stelae of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

(Corpus Antiquitatum Aegypticarum)

153 pages (loose leaf), plus booklet

ISBN 978-1-906137-63-2

£75 -$150

A catalogue of almost all Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period stelae in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Many of them were lost in WWII. The publication uses often old archive photographs. Includes full translations.

August 2019