Research Catalog

Title

Egypt and beyond : essays presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University, June 2005 / edited by Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian.

Publication

[Providence, R.I.] : Dept. of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Thompson, Stephen E.
• Der Manuelian, Peter.

Description

340 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Egyptian philology
• Egypt > Antiquities

Note

• "Bibliography of Leonard H. Lesko"--P. xxvii-xxxi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / by Stephen E. Thompson -- List of contributors -- Leonard H. Lesko: a biographical sketch / Barbara S. Lesko -- Bibliography of Leonard H. Lesko (through 2007) -- Some remarks on the pyramid texts inscribed in the chapel of Amenirdis I at Medinet Habu / Mariam F. Ayad -- The Pahlavi Archive at Berkeley / Guitty Azarpay -- The ancient Egyptian "Books of Breathing," the Mormon "Book of Abraham," and the development of Egyptology in America / Lanny Bell -- Trickster gods in the Egyptian pantheon / J.F. Borghouts -- A second style in Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom / Edward Brovarski -- The function of the particle [hieroglyphs] jḫ in Old and Middle Egyptian / Leo Depuydt -- The Menkaure Dyad(s) / Florence Dunn Friedman -- Cultural similarities, kinship terminology and ethno-egyptology / Fayza Haikal -- An act of piety from the Western Cemetery at Giza / Tohfa Handoussa -- Unique statues found at Giza VI: two unknown statues found in the western field near the causeway of Khafre / Zahi Hawass -- Beginning and end in the Book of the Dead in the 21st Dynasty / Matthieu Heerma van Voss -- Was Pausanias right concerning Peirithoos in the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia? / R. Ross Holloway -- A new coffin text spell from Naga ed-Dêr / Ramadan B. Hussein -- Common name: poppy. Habitat: Nabataean sculpture. The Petra great temple / Martha Sharp Joukowsky -- Making Egyptian temple decoration fit the available space / Diana Wolfe Larkin -- A "new" slab stela for Nefer from G 2110? (Giza Archives Project gleanings: I) / Peter der Manuelian -- Five versions of spell 19 from the late period Book of the Dead / Malcolm Mosher, Jr. -- A papyrus grows in Brooklyn. The Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet in the Brooklyn Museum (P. Brooklyn 35.1448+35.1464) / Paul F. O'Rourke and Madeleine E. Cody -- The nun-basin of Renpetneferet / Ali Radwan -- Gilding the lily: sceptres and shrouds in Greco-Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs -- Libyan vs Nubian as the ideal Egyptian / Robert K. Ritner -- A fragmentary mummy bandage inscribed with three Isis spells in the Book of the Dead / Alessandro Roccati -- A reference to warfare at Dendereh, prior to the unification of Egypt in the Eleventh Eynasty / David P. Silverman -- From two ways to Totenbuch: a study in textual transmission and transformation / Stephen E. Thompson.

Call Number

*OBKG 08-5935

ISBN

• 9780980206500
• 0980206502

LCCN

2008275471

OCLC

237199697

Title

Egypt and beyond : essays presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University, June 2005 / edited by Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian.

Imprint

[Providence, R.I.] : Dept. of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University, 2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Thompson, Stephen E.

Der Manuelian, Peter.

Research Call Number

*OBKG 08-5935