Pharaoh's People: Scenes From Life In Imperial Egypt, by James, T.G.H.
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Pharaoh's People: Scenes From Life In Imperial Egypt, by James, T.G.H.. The Bodley Head: London, 1984. Edition: First edition. ISBN: 0226391930. Hardcover, 8vo, 282 pages. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with sixteen plates on eight leaves (multiple black and white photographs on each plate) and twenty-seven black and white line drawings. Includes selected bibliography and index.

Condition: Very good, no jacket. Lower spine end bumped and the smallest amount of wear along edges; all else fine.

Contents: Excerpts from the Preface:

Within the chosen period -- the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty, when Egypt first became an imperial state -- I have ... selected those topics for discussion that allow the construction of a modest edifice of information inhabited mostly by those Egyptians placed on the lower rungs of the social ladder.

Such people rarely speak directly to us across the thousands of years which have passed since they lived, but there is much indirect evidence, and a little which is startlingly direct. My starting-point has been this evidence and its reliability; then the bureaucratic society of which these people form a part is examined through the work and obligations of the vizir, and the exercise of the surprisingly (but perhaps superficially) fair legal system.....Throughout I have made use of ancient texts of all kinds, most of which I have newly translated for this book.

....My hope has been that the flavour of life in imperial Egypt might be tasted, and that the taste will not be wholly misleading...