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Traversing Eternity: Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Traversing Eternity Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Author: Mark Smith
This book studies Egyptian ideas about death and the afterlife during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Mark Smith analyses Egyptian attitudes toward death, looks at the various means by which the Egyptians attempted to ensure a smooth transition from existence in this world to that in the next, and examines how they envisaged life in the hereaft...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198154648
ISBN-10: 019815464X
Publication Date: 4/15/2009
Pages: 800
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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