Temple festival calendars of ancient Egypt
By: Sherif El-Sabban.
Series: Liverpool monographs in archaeology & Oriental studies; Liverpool monographs in archaeology and Oriental studies.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Fasts and feasts -- Egyptian religion.; Religious calendars -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500.; Votive offerings -- Egypt.; Temples -- Egypt.; Calendar, Egyptian.
Description: "The purpose of this book is not the study of the festivals, but of the calendars themselves which have never been studied before as a group of specialized documents. In this work, an attempt is made to gather together all the known examples of Ancient Egyptian temple calendars, to reconstruct them whenever practicable and to give the history of this kind of document. The documents are not simply lists - they have a proper format and structure, and this is also studied here. The book covers periods from the Archaic all the way to the Greco-Roman, including the three great periods of the history of Egypt - the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-218).
Revision of the author's (Ph.D.).