ISBN10: 9774166345, ISBN13: 9789774166341, [publisher: American University in Cairo Press, Cairo] Hardcover Hardcover. Tsenhor was born about 550 B C E in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin, and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life. If Tsenhor were alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and enjoy a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one assumes that this happened with the full support of her second husband Psenese, who fathered two of her children. She married him when she was in her mid-thirties. Tsenhor - - who was probably named after her father's most important client - - was a working wife. Like her father and husband, she could be hired to bring offerings to the dead in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and that is how her family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion.But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with Psenese. When Tsenhor decided to divide her inheritance, her son and daughter each received an equal share. Even the papyri proving ...

ISBN10: 9774166345, ISBN13: 9789774166341, [publisher: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description: 255 p. Subjects: Tsenhor approximately 550 B.C.-. Businessmen Egypt History ; Sources. Egyptian language ; Papyri. Women Egypt History. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
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ISBN10: 9774166345, ISBN13: 9789774166341, [publisher: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description: 255 p. Subjects: Tsenhor approximately 550 B.C.-. Businessmen Egypt History ; Sources. Egyptian language ; Papyri. Women Egypt History. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
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