...Susan Stephens Peter Parsons, City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World (Phoenix: Orion Books, 2007), 258 pages. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country...

...Susan Stephens Parkinson R. B. , Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories ( Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009 ), 392 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander...

...Ingrid Rowland Stolzenberg Daniel , Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 ), 320 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... of mainstream rationalism withdrew from the public sphere, using the image of the Egyptian god Harpocrates, who puts his index finger to his lips—a symbol for maintaining silence. In a sense one can thus label this kind of quietism as “harpocratism.” The essay examines the imagery and contextualizes it in three...

... refugees into Algiers, thanks to intervention of the local qadi . The second concerns instructions given by the sixteenth-century Egyptian Sufi master al-Sha’rani to his disciples never to harm a dhimmi (that is, a Jew or Christian, especially one who is observant of his own religion). The third instance...

...: whatever the one did, the other did in exactly the opposite way.1 So alien are the Egyptians that the second book of Herodotus, in which he sketches their history and ecology, can be formally detached from the main narrative. Falling outside his subject (the historical tra- jectory of the Persian...

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... and how Romans might have come to regard them not as bizarre objects of conquest but as routine features of the cityscape. Egyptian artifacts attracted the private sector as well. She analyzes the repurposing of imported objects as well as the market for goods in the Egyptian style manufactured...

... between French, Turkish, and Arabic (the word dragoman is derived from the Arabic verb “to translate”) but often conducts negotiations with Ottoman and Egyptian authorities himself. Well-versed in local protocols, and deeply acquainted with the customs agents, Roboly also dabbles in private...

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... values. What could have been a dull excavation report about an obscure Egyptian oasis has been transformed into a riveting learning experience. Its subject, the town of Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis, lies some five hundred kilometers to the west of Luxor and the Nile valley. Thanks to the numerous color...

... representation. Egyptian libraries, libraries, Egyptian ­representation...

... of production values. What could have been a dull excavation report about an obscure Egyptian oasis has been transformed into a riveting learning experience. Its subject, the town of Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis, lies some five hundred kilometers to the west of Luxor and the Nile valley. Thanks to the numerous...

..., Mesopotamian, Persian, and Egyptian cultures, ranging in time from c. 2000 BCE to the Byzantine Christian period. Topics taken up include how these ancient cultures themselves describe such practices, if they do so at all; the ritual materials (spells, amulets, drugs, magic bowls, images, and manuals...

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... er’s er’s Klein queen. Diana Egyptian an as on Cleopatra focus that books popularizing several years, Sally-Ann Ashton and Susan Walker have written a number of brief to reason through the biased, not to say sensationalist ancient sources. In the last Grant’s Michael history, Roman...

... er’s er’s Klein queen. Diana Egyptian an as on Cleopatra focus that books popularizing several years, Sally-Ann Ashton and Susan Walker have written a number of brief to reason through the biased, not to say sensationalist ancient sources. In the last Grant’s Michael history, Roman...

... er’s er’s Klein queen. Diana Egyptian an as on Cleopatra focus that books popularizing several years, Sally-Ann Ashton and Susan Walker have written a number of brief to reason through the biased, not to say sensationalist ancient sources. In the last Grant’s Michael history, Roman...

... er’s er’s Klein queen. Diana Egyptian an as on Cleopatra focus that books popularizing several years, Sally-Ann Ashton and Susan Walker have written a number of brief to reason through the biased, not to say sensationalist ancient sources. In the last Grant’s Michael history, Roman...