This volume of RIM focuses on the Second Dynasty of Lagas, and concentrates mainly on the inscriptions of Cylinders A and B of the most important king of that dynasty, Gudea.
A practical teach-yourself course on ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for the general reader. In this text, the grammar of ancient Egypt is introduced using the inscriptions found on monuments, with an emphasis on learning to read and translate accurately.
Presents a collection of articles written mainly in English, dealing with a range of runological topics. This book embraces Danish runic-inscriptions from the first to the sixteenth century, including such topics as the names of the runes, their chronology, literacy, runic coins etcetera.
Includes 79 articles in English, French, German and Italian from a congress held in Copenhagen from the 23th-29th August 1992. This title features papers that deal with subjects within Greek, Latin or Demotic papyrology and the history of Egypt under Greek and Roman rule.
The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. This is an illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases.
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the history of Latin script, containing a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. It is designed as a textbook and contains a full bibliography.
This volume presents the first history of the Classic Maya based on a combination of the Maya's own dynastic records and archaeological data.
An interdisciplinary study of the reception and use of De regimine principum, a major medieval text.
Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm.
A detailed and highly illustrated survey of medieval book hands, essential for graduate students and scholars of the period.
An analysis of medieval teaching methods through the surviving manuscripts of the scholar Notker of St. Gall.