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Reviewed Work: Syntactic And Lexico-Semantic Aspects Of The Legal Register In Ramesside Royal Decrees By Arlette David, Jacqueline E. Jay Jan 2007

Reviewed Work: Syntactic And Lexico-Semantic Aspects Of The Legal Register In Ramesside Royal Decrees By Arlette David, Jacqueline E. Jay

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Book Review This book is the fifth in the GOFIV series to examine how hieroglyphic "determinatives" (or "script classifiers") reflect the way the ancient Egyptians classified and categorized the elements of their world. The bulk of the book is a section-by-section transliteration, translation, and analysis of the Ramesside royal decrees, divided into four generic subsets: