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From Amazon.com:Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt during the well documented 19th and 20th dynasties (circa 1300-1100 B.C.), the book describes the legal language used in recording wills and gifts. It is compared with the language of royal decrees tackled by the author\'s Syntactic and Lexico- Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees (previously published in the same collection), and with some examples of legal languages associated with private instruments in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and in modern times. After presentation of the criteria used to establish the corpus and the multiple dilemmas involved, each text is analyzed for its linguistic and graphic features, as well as the lexico-semantic features associated with the categorization system embedded in the script (for terminology of spezial legal relevance). Related textual categories such as partitions, \'social gifts\', and contract-related records are dealt with separately as they did not constitute enforceable private law instruments. A distinct Ramesside private deeds register (variety of language distinguished according to use) emerges from the analysis, resulting from choices and strategies adapted to a specific legal topic and communicative purpose.

From the book cover: [Sir E. A. Wallis Budge's] enormous erudition and first-hand knowledge are fully evident in this fascinating study, which examines Egyptian obelisks from archaeological, historical, linguistic, and other perspectives.

From AEB: The author points out that it is not impossible that there is a direct link with the Biblical tradition about a seven-year famine in Egypt. The document remains an important witness for the extent and impact of historical knowledge in Ancient Egypt and the degree to which it was still cultivated under the Ptolemies for political goals.

This book consists of 8 volumes.

Du site de l'éditeur : Avant l’apparition du Livre des Morts au Nouvel Empire, la littérature funéraire de l’Égypte ancienne est dominée par deux ensembles de formules traditionnellement intitulés Textes des Pyramides et Textes des Sarcophages. Les premiers ont eu pour support privilégié les chambres des pyramides royales à partir de la Ve dynastie et jusqu’à la fin de l’Ancien Empire, tandis que les seconds ont été inscrits essentiellement sur les sarcophages de particuliers à la Première Période intermédiaire et au Moyen Empire. La table ronde internationale qui s’est déroulée à l’Ifao en septembre 2001 fut l’occasion pour des égyptologues spécialistes de ces textes de mettre en lumière les relations étroites qui unissent les deux corpus au-delà des différences liées au contexte historique ou à l’évolution des croyances, mais aussi de mieux caractériser leurs spécificités. Les Actes de ce colloque présentent non seulement des articles de synthèse sur la parenté des Textes des Pyramides et des Textes des Sarcophages comme sur certains aspects paléographiques, philologiques ou rhétoriques propres à chacun des corpus, mais aussi des études sur des documents jusqu’ici inédits qui apportent à cette problématique de nouveaux éclairages.

From Amazon.com:This is a rich and lively account of the women of ancient Egypt from goddesses to dancing girls, queens to housewives. The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians. Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the \'vessels of creation\'. This is a wide ranging and revealing account told with authority and verve.