The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt
Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c. 3100-332 B.C.)
Biographical note
Alexander John Peden, Ph.D. (1997) in Egyptology, University of Liverpool, is a former Leverhulme Trust Research Associate at the University of Liverpool and is the author of several books and articles on the Later Ramesside Period in Egypt, including The Reign of Ramesses IV (Warminster, 1994) and Egyptian Historical Inscriptions of the 20th Dynasty (Jonsered 1994).
Readership
Egyptologists, language historians.
Reviews
'...the book is of great value both as an impressive compilation of diverse and scattered texts and for the author’s insightful coverage of the settings and circumstances in which ancient Egyptians recorded their activities.’
Denise M. Doxey, Religious Studies Review, 2002.
Denise M. Doxey, Religious Studies Review, 2002.
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