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Aspects of the military documents of the ancient Egyptians / Anthony John Spalinger.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT81 .S6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spalinger, Anthony John.
- Series:
- Yale Near Eastern researches ; 9.
- Yale Near Eastern researches ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inscriptions, Egyptian.
- Egyptian literature--History and criticism.
- Egyptian literature.
- History, Military.
- Egypt--History, Military--Sources.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--History--To 332 B.C--Sources.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 258 pages : frontispiece ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- This is the first comprehensive treatment of the composition and historiographic background of ancient Egyptian military inscriptions (c. 155 B.C. to c. 450 B.C.). In his chronological study Anthony Spalinger analyzes numerous texts from a formalistic as well as a literary viewpoint. His discovery-that aspects of ancient Egyptian military writing were regulated by a preexisting framework and set phraseology-will enable historians of ancient Egypt to discriminate between what was hyperbole and what was reality in a given military situation.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages [243]-253.
- ISBN:
- 0300023812
- OCLC:
- 7795103
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