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Pharaoh's Workers : The Villagers of Deir el Medina / ed. by Leonard H. Lesko.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 8 color plates, 27 halftones, 12 drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501727610
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 932
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. Social and Economic Concerns -- ONE. Rank, Roles, and Rights -- TWO. Contact with the Outside World -- THREE. Foreigners Living in the Village -- PART II. Spiritual and Intellectual Matters -- FOUR. Aspects of Domestic Life and Religion -- FIVE. Magical Practices among the Villagers -- SIX. Literature, Literacy, and Literati -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of artifacts and documents through which we can glimpse not only their working conditions and domestic activities, but also their religious beliefs and private thoughts.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501727610

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. Social and Economic Concerns -- ONE. Rank, Roles, and Rights -- TWO. Contact with the Outside World -- THREE. Foreigners Living in the Village -- PART II. Spiritual and Intellectual Matters -- FOUR. Aspects of Domestic Life and Religion -- FIVE. Magical Practices among the Villagers -- SIX. Literature, Literacy, and Literati -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

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Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of artifacts and documents through which we can glimpse not only their working conditions and domestic activities, but also their religious beliefs and private thoughts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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