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The splendor that was Egypt / Margaret A. Murray.

By: Murray, Margaret Alice Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2004Edition: Rev. edDescription: xxii, 256 p., [97] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0486431002 (pbk.)Subject(s): Egypt -- Civilization | Egypt -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 932

Contents:

I. Prehistory The five periods: Tasian, Badarian, Amratean, Gerzean, Semainian II. History Proto-Dynastic: Old Kingdom: First Inter mediate Period: Middle Kingdom: Second Intermediate Period: New Kingdom: Late Period: Persian Period: Ptolemaic Period III. Social Conditions Organisation: Law: Agriculture: Trade, Position of Women: Ptolemaic Period: Education: Houses and Towns: Furniture: Gardens and Flowers: Servants: Horses and Chariots: Food: Lighting: Dress: Pastimes IV. Religion Local Gods: Osiris and the Pharaoh: The Pharaoh: Primitive Goddesses: The Sun-God: Ritual: Burial Customs: ReUgious Endowments: Ethics: Magic: Curses V. Art and Science Music: Architecture: Pyramids: Sculpture and Painting: Statues: Portrait Coffins: Rehef Sculp ture: Painting: Handicrafts: Science VI. Language and Literature The Writing. Literature: Religious; Dramatic; Tnumph-Songs; Love Songs; Stories

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	932 MUR/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14953

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Originally published: New York : Hawthorn Books, 1963.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

I. Prehistory
The five periods: Tasian, Badarian, Amratean,
Gerzean, Semainian

II. History
Proto-Dynastic: Old Kingdom: First Inter
mediate Period: Middle Kingdom: Second
Intermediate Period: New Kingdom: Late
Period: Persian Period: Ptolemaic Period

III. Social Conditions
Organisation: Law: Agriculture: Trade, Position
of Women: Ptolemaic Period: Education:
Houses and Towns: Furniture: Gardens and
Flowers: Servants: Horses and Chariots: Food:
Lighting: Dress: Pastimes

IV. Religion
Local Gods: Osiris and the Pharaoh: The
Pharaoh: Primitive Goddesses: The Sun-God:
Ritual: Burial Customs: ReUgious Endowments:
Ethics: Magic: Curses

V. Art and Science
Music: Architecture: Pyramids: Sculpture and
Painting: Statues: Portrait Coffins: Rehef Sculp
ture: Painting: Handicrafts: Science

VI. Language and Literature
The Writing. Literature: Religious; Dramatic;
Tnumph-Songs; Love Songs; Stories

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