TY - BOOK
T1 - Ostraca from the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III
AU - Hagen, Fredrik Norland
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The book publishes a range of texts from recent excavations at Thebes. Although fragmentary, it is one of the richest corpora that have come to light for a generation, in terms of both the number of ostraca and the different types of texts represented, and provides essential new data for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian temples, religion, priests, and social history. The texts shed light on many aspects of life in an Egyptian temple, including the building of the temple, the daily operations of its cult, the organisation and size of the priesthood, types and quantities of offerings, as well as the broader cultural issues of literacy and the transmission of literature.
AB - The book publishes a range of texts from recent excavations at Thebes. Although fragmentary, it is one of the richest corpora that have come to light for a generation, in terms of both the number of ostraca and the different types of texts represented, and provides essential new data for anyone interested in ancient Egyptian temples, religion, priests, and social history. The texts shed light on many aspects of life in an Egyptian temple, including the building of the temple, the daily operations of its cult, the organisation and size of the priesthood, types and quantities of offerings, as well as the broader cultural issues of literacy and the transmission of literature.
UR - https://brill.com/view/title/58471
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004447554
T3 - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
BT - Ostraca from the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -