ANEL 661 - Old Egyptian Texts:Secular

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University of Pennsylvania

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Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 563. This course will concentrate on non-religious themes written in Old Egyptia The texts utilized will include those written in the hieratic as well as hieroglyphic script; comparisons to and distinctions between the grammar us in these texts and those in the religious material will be made. The autobiographical inscriptions in tombs from Giza, Elephantine and Saqqara,(Sethe, URKUNDEN I) will be studied in addition to contemporaneous letters (Gunn, ASAE 25, (1925) 242-55, Gardiner and Sethe, LETTERS to the DEAD,and P. Posener-Krieger, HIERATIC PAPYRI in the BRITISH MUSEUM) and economic documents (ibid. and LES ARCHIVS du TEMPLE FUNERAIRE de NEFERIRKARE-KAKAI).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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