Ceremonial Speech Patterns in the Medinet Habu War Inscriptions (Agypten Und Altes Testament, 79) - Hardcover

Israeli, Shlomit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868351515 ISBN 13: 9783868351514

Publisher: Ugarit Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

The book is dealing with the inscriptions of Ramesses III's funerary temple at Medinet Habu, which have long held the interest of scholars. The present author Shlomit Israeli presents and compares in particular the grammar of the three parts: speeches uttered prior to war, presentation of captives and booty to pharaoh, and presentation of captives and booty to Amon. All speeches are fully discussed by focusing the grammatical constructions, their function and meaning, the speech types, the vocabulary, Middle Egyptian grammatical formations and the Ramesside (Late Egyptian) grammatical formations. All texts are given in hieroglyphs, transliteration and translation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ugarit Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3868351515
• ISBN 13: 9783868351514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186