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Focusing on the experience of a young girl and her family, this book recreates the daily life of middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt's Middle Kingdom, or Classical Age. After placing the town in its accurate historical and geographical context, the author chronicles the everyday life of its inhabitants - from their education, occupations, and food preparation to their religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths. Throughout the book, authenticity takes center stage. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun as well as from other contemporary settlement and mortuary sites. Wherever possible, actual physical artifacts are illustrated with line-drawings or photographs (some published here for the first time), accompanied by descriptions of their production and use. Daily Life in Ancient Egypt is a scholarly portrayal of Egypt's Classical Age and a timeless microcosm of daily life in an ancient Egyptian town.
"This volume breaks new ground in how we need to examine Egyptianculture." (Journal of World History, March 2010)
"The author brings a contemporary academic understanding ofancient Egyptian society and culture to a general audience,successfully overturning widely-held preconceptions and offeringnew research and methodologies in an accessible and lucid manner.As such, it will serve both general interest readers and studentsof the subject." (Egyptian Archaeology, Spring 2009)
"The book will be attractive to anyone who wishes to read anappealing and original introduction to the Egyptian mind."(Scholia Reviews, 2009)
"Books dealing with the daily lives of the ancient Egyptiansabound ... .I'd not gotten far into Szpakowska's contribution whenI realized that hers was something special, and needful. Eachchapter begins with a brief introduction ... which the authorfleshes out with a highly detailed and readable survey. Thisapproach brings the mundane world ... to life in a way real andvital, and is sure to appeal to Szpakowska's intended audience:university students, the general public, and scholars. DailyLife is at once a good read and an excellent reference book."(KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, December 2008)
"In this interesting addition to the growing body of scholarshipon the social and cultural history of ancient Egypt, Szapkowskatreats in succession birth, home life, personal possessions, craftsand trades, learning and related topics, religion, sickness, death,and love. What sets her book apart from other similar works is itsrestriction to the Middle Kingdom town of Lahun and the author'sreliance primarily on material from that site. The focus on MiddleKingdom Lahun ... does allow readers to get a clearer sense of lifein a particular place than other similarly titled works provide.Recommended." (CHOICE, December 2008)
"Szpakowska's book is well-written, and a valuable addition tobooks on the topic of daily life in ancient Egypt. It tells awonderful story of life in an ancient Egyptian town." (Bryn MawrClassical Review, September 2008)
"A magnificent undergraduate textbook, because of the focus onthe actual record." (Times Higher Education Supplement)"Szpakowska's lively, well-crafted account not onlygives a sense of the lives of the people behind the ancient textsand representations, but shows the reader how to construct anarrative which is both engaging and scholarly."
-Deborah Sweeney, Tel Aviv University
"Kasia Szpakowska's engaging, localizedaccount of life during Egypt's Middle Kingdom draws upon thematerial culture and inscriptions produced by the people of Lahunto produce a rich portrait that will interest general readers,students, and Egyptologists alike."
-Ellen Morris, Columbia University
"The author brings a contemporary academic understanding ofancient Egyptian society and culture to a general audience,successfully overturning widely-held preconceptions and offeringnew research and methodologies in an accessible and lucid manner.As such, it will serve both general interest readers and studentsof the subject." (Egyptian Archaeology, Spring 2009)
"The book will be attractive to anyone who wishes to read anappealing and original introduction to the Egyptian mind."(Scholia Reviews, 2009)
"Books dealing with the daily lives of the ancient Egyptiansabound ... .I'd not gotten far into Szpakowska's contribution whenI realized that hers was something special, and needful. Eachchapter begins with a brief introduction ... which the authorfleshes out with a highly detailed and readable survey. Thisapproach brings the mundane world ... to life in a way real andvital, and is sure to appeal to Szpakowska's intended audience:university students, the general public, and scholars. DailyLife is at once a good read and an excellent reference book."(KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, December 2008)
"In this interesting addition to the growing body of scholarshipon the social and cultural history of ancient Egypt, Szapkowskatreats in succession birth, home life, personal possessions, craftsand trades, learning and related topics, religion, sickness, death,and love. What sets her book apart from other similar works is itsrestriction to the Middle Kingdom town of Lahun and the author'sreliance primarily on material from that site. The focus on MiddleKingdom Lahun ... does allow readers to get a clearer sense of lifein a particular place than other similarly titled works provide.Recommended." (CHOICE, December 2008)
"Szpakowska's book is well-written, and a valuable addition tobooks on the topic of daily life in ancient Egypt. It tells awonderful story of life in an ancient Egyptian town." (Bryn MawrClassical Review, September 2008)
"A magnificent undergraduate textbook, because of the focus onthe actual record." (Times Higher Education Supplement)"Szpakowska's lively, well-crafted account not onlygives a sense of the lives of the people behind the ancient textsand representations, but shows the reader how to construct anarrative which is both engaging and scholarly."
-Deborah Sweeney, Tel Aviv University
"Kasia Szpakowska's engaging, localizedaccount of life during Egypt's Middle Kingdom draws upon thematerial culture and inscriptions produced by the people of Lahunto produce a rich portrait that will interest general readers,students, and Egyptologists alike."
-Ellen Morris, Columbia University