Mrs. Tsenhor : a Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt /
"From the papers she left behind, a picture emerges of a woman who had firm control over her own life. We are dealing here with an Egyptian woman in the fifth century BCE who owned houses and land, worked in the necropolis as a professional choachyte, and most probably did more business of whic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2014.
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| Summary: | "From the papers she left behind, a picture emerges of a woman who had firm control over her own life. We are dealing here with an Egyptian woman in the fifth century BCE who owned houses and land, worked in the necropolis as a professional choachyte, and most probably did more business of which we are uinaware. In fact, what we have here is an unprecedented and privileged peek into the life of an ancient Ebyptian girl next door that will never make it inot the official history books"--Publisher description |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 161797577X 9781617975776 9781617975691 1617975699 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |