Texts from the Pyramid Age (Writings from the Ancient World) Review

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(More customer reviews)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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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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