Pharaoh's Workers : The Villagers of Deir El Medina

by: Lesko, L.H.

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Pharaoh's Workers
The Villagers of Deir el Medina
Edited by: Leonard H. Lesko

About this book
Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of...

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART I. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS
ONE. Rank, Roles, and Rights

Barbara S. Lesko
TWO. Contact with the Outside World

Andrea G. McDowell
THREE. Foreigners Living in the Village

William A. Ward
PART II. SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL MATTERS
FOUR. Aspects of Domestic Life and Religion

Florence D. Friedman
FIVE. Magical Practices among the Villagers

Joris F. Borghouts
SIX. Literature, Literacy, and Literati

Leonard H. Lesko
Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Pharaoh's Workers : The Villagers of Deir El Medina

by: Lesko, L.H.

• ISBN-13: 9780801481437 / 978-0-8014-8143-7
• ISBN-03: 0801481430 / 0-8014-8143-0
• Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1994

Price: 15,85 EURO

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