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The legal register of Ramesside private law instruments /
Pursuing the study of legal discourse in ancient Egypt during the well documented 19th and 20th dynasties (circa 1300-1100 B.C.), the book describes the legal language used in recording wills and gifts. It is compared with the language of royal decrees tackled by the author's Syntactic and Lexi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ancient Egyptian |
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Wiesbaden, Germany :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2010.
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| Colección: | Göttinger Orientforschungen. Ägypten ;
38. Göttinger Orientforschungen. Ägypten. Classification and categorization in ancient Egypt ; Volume 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Body; Introduction; The framework; terminology; a. Structuralist syntactic analysis; b. Sociolinguistic analysis of registers, genres, and dialects; c. Legal discourse analysis; d. Neo-Egyptian registers; e. Semiotics, cognitive linguistics, and categorization; f. Glossary of legal terms used in the book; PART ONE: Wills, gifts, and partitions; I. The corpus; II. Wills, gifts, and partitions during other periods; III. Textual analysis; A. Wills and gifts; 1. oDeM 108; 2. oGardiner/Ashmolean 90; 3. oGardiner/Ashmolean 55.
- 4. oGardiner/Ashmolean 2725. pAshmolean Museum 1945.97 & 1945.95 and pDeM 23 & 25 (Naunakhte); 6. pBoulaq 10 (pCairo CG 58092); 7. oPetrie 18; 8. pAshmolean Museum 1945.96 (pAdoptions); 9. pTurin 2021 ro and pGeneva D 409; 10. Elliptic records of movable assets: (social) gifts or else?; a. Administrative duty roster; b. Epistolary genre; c. Notified records; d. Locutive elements in narrative context; e. Valuation of items; f. Delivery of goods; g. List of proper names and goods of the type # PN + goods #; h. Mention of specific circumstances, events; i. Allocutive records; j. Favor.
- K. Use of delivery agentsl. Formalism; m. Administrative distribution of metal; 11. Table of syntactic forms and particularities in wills and gifts; B. Partitions; 1. oGardiner/Ashmolean 89 ; 2. oLouvre E 13156; 3. oDeM 112 and 964; 4. oBerlin P 12636 vo; 5. oDeM 586; 6. pDeM 30; 7. pTurin 2070 vo, col. II; 8. pTurin 1885 vo; 9. Table of syntactic forms and particularities in partitions; PART TWO: Contract-related records; 1. Epistolary genre; 2. Record of oaths: contentious legal genre?; 3. Locutive elements in records.
- 4. Delocutive records concerning animal transfers without mention of consideration5. Delocutive records concerning onerous transactions: private memos and accounts, or administrative records?; Occurences of classifiers in the Ramesside private law instruments; Conclusions; Bibliography (including abbreviations); critical devices; Index of syntactic forms and technical terms; Index of Egyptian texts; Index of main Egyptian lexemes discussed.