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Furniture at Deir el-Medîna, including wooden containers of the New Kingdom and Ostracon varille 19 / Jac. J. Janssen.

Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT73.D47 J36 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Janssen, Jac. J.
Contributor:
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Series:
Egyptology (London, England) ; 9.
Egyptology ; 9
Language:
Egyptian
Subjects (All):
Egyptian language.
Lexicology.
Furniture.
History.
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt)--Antiquities.
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt).
Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt)--Social life and customs.
Furniture--Egypt--History--To 1500.
Furniture--Egypt--Terminology.
Egyptian language--Lexicology.
Egypt--History--New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C.
Egypt.
Genre:
Terminology.
Dictionaries.
Physical Description:
iv, 103 pages ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
London : Golden House Publications, 2009.
Summary:
The aim of this book is to find the link between words and household objects. Using ostraca and papyri from the workmen's village at Deir el-Medina, the author discusses both the kind and relative frequency of furniture and wooden receptacles used in a typical New Kingdom home. Forty words referring to normal household objects also feature in the remarkable and previously unpublished Ostracon Varille 19. These are compared with other occurrences in order to assess how common each article was in the life of the community.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-103).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781906137076
1906137072
OCLC:
263985476

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