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Routledge
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Living in the Past includes studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty and was first published in 1994. This study focuses on the Egyptian archaizing spirit which reached its climax under the Saite Twenty-sixth Dynasty (664-525 B.C.), resurrecting elements from earlier stages of Egyptian civilization. The primary focus of the investigation is the archaizing language... Read more
Part 1 Epigraphy, orthography and the "copy" question: Saite "copies"; epigraphy and orthography of Saite secular Egyptian. Part 2 The secular verbal system in Dynasty 26 - royal and private text grammatical studies: participles and relative forms; the old perfective; the SDM.N=F form; the SMD=F form; the infinitive; negation; auxilliary verbs, compound forms and miscellaneous additional constructions. Part 3 Translations of royal historical Stelae of Dynasty 26: adoption Stela of Nitocris from Karnak; Stela VII of Psametik I from Saqqara; Stela Lunette of Psametik II from Shellal; Stela of Psametik II from Karnak; Excursus; Stela of Psametik II from Tanis; Stela of Apries from Memphis; Stela of Amasis from Memphis; summary and conclusions.
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Peter Der Manuelian
