Hi oranteseal, you wrote ... Good questions and I wish I had taken more notice of the details of the article! As for pottery, no there was none in the...
Hi aj, I wonder if the idea of sr as prince was an older one in Egyptology which has subsequently been discarded with further study? It is srtiking that...
Hi Richard. Hannig's recent dictionary offers "sr" as: "High Civil Servant, with office and seal", in German he writes, "(mit Amt und Siegel belehnt)", but I...
Patricia Maynor Bikai, U of C at Berkeley. The Crisis Years, 1992. Abstract. “While it is generally thought that the fate of the Phoenician cities at the...
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... potmarks ... the ... that ... hill ... is ... hill ... of ... was ... judging ... that ... because ... short ... hill a ... shaped ... oh no need to take a...
... James, are you able to find those 'marks' on a website, and post the URL? Or perhaps you can scan something to this site, I'm not grasping just what it is...
Hi Jon, you wrote ... is that in the volume edited by WA Ward and MS Joukowsky, "The Crisis years : the 12th century B.C. from beyond the Danube to the...
Yes Richard, the very same. It took me maybe 18 months to track a copy down. Dothans The Philistines and their Material Culture, 1982, took me 5 years to find!...
... I wouldn't say that. I am proposing that such peoples as Sikel, Sherden and Peleset were already resident in the Levant long before the end of the Bronze...
... along ... potmarks ... Linear ... book ... deity. ... the ... grasping ... i can scan it tomorrow (or maybe later tonight) , i'll show you what i'm talking...
Hi John. You got me with your last brief responses (at bottom), are you meaning a Hittite treaty?, if so I'm not seeing how this comes into play. And what...
Fragments of world's oldest Christian manuscript found in Egyptian monastery The Art Newspaper [UK], 18.2.08 Fragments of the earliest dated Christian literary...
What about Bona Dea of the Romans. What about Agatha Tyche? Bona Fortuna? etc. Of course, it could be argued that it was what they did (for me) that is...
I decided to further delve into this in Hebrew. I googled "chet sin" and came up with lots of sources. However, one reminded me that I knew all about "chet"....
Fors, I was eager to agree with you about Bona Dea! So I checked her out at Wikipedia. Now I'm not so hot on it. Here's the leading quote: "In Roman...
... the ... class ... sickness or ... Bona ... did ... Yahoo! ... is it Anubis and his scales that wwighs the feather? i've seen it in art but not recently and...
... it ... of ... prepared - ... between ... both ... say ... commentators ... connection ... aj you might be interested to consider the Egyptian "game" of...
Barre, Yep.... that would be me who changed the topic of a post. Everyone has the right to re-name a thread if it suits the topic of the new post.... or if...
Jon ... Interesting translation. Belehnt is the finite form of belehnen, 'to fief, to grant property or fee to a vassal for services rendered.' Most...
James ... Thanks for the info, James. What struck me was that the author of the Wikipedia article saw fit to translate sn.t n.t Hab as 'passing game': it...
oranteseal, George and all, George wrote Having ... and oranteseal replied ... The feather is in fact to do with ma'at, the glyph for which is a feather. ma'at...
Hi all again, a few more relevant thoughts on ma'at. The verb m3' (3=aleph, '=ayin) means "to guide or direct". The word itself can be written just with the...
Marianne ... IYO. ... The word svp is attested in several places outside the phrase ym svp, Marianne: for instance, in the fall of Jonah-: "The waters...
... Hi A.J. I have tried hunting down this name Sinai in old maps like Ptolemy's Geographia, and any Greek or Roman texts. The name, as a specific geographical...
