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Toponymy on the periphery : placenames of the Eastern Desert, Red Sea, and south Sinai in Egyptian documents from the early dynastic until the end of the New Kingdom / by Julien Charles Cooper.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT49.9 .C667 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Julien Charles, author.
- Series:
- Probleme der Ägyptologie ; 39.
- Probleme der Ägyptologie, 0169-9601 ; Band 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Names, Geographical--Egypt.
- Names, Geographical.
- Toponymy.
- Egypt.
- Toponymy--Egypt.
- Egyptian language.
- Geography, Ancient.
- Red Sea Coast (Egypt)--Geography.
- Red Sea Coast (Egypt).
- Eastern Desert (Egypt)--Geography.
- Eastern Desert (Egypt).
- Sinai (Egypt)--Geography.
- Sinai (Egypt).
- Geography.
- Egypt--Eastern Desert.
- Egypt--Red Sea Coast.
- Egypt--Sinai.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 718 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
- Summary:
- "In Toponymy on the Periphery, Julien Charles Cooper conducts a study of the rich geographies preserved in Egyptian texts relating to the desert regions east of Egypt. These regions, filled with mines, quarries, nomadic camps, and harbours are often considered as an unimportant hinterland of the Egyptian state, but this work reveals the wide explorations and awareness Egyptians had of the Red Sea and its adjacent deserts, from the Sinai in the north to Punt in the south. The book attempts to locate many of the placenames present in Egyptian texts and analyse their etymology in light of Egyptian linguistics and the various foreign languages spoken in the adjacent deserts and distant shores of the Red Sea"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-685) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cooper, Julien Charles. Toponymy on the periphery
- ISBN:
- 9789004361690
- 9004361693
- OCLC:
- 1127669566
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004361690
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