A Miscellany of Demotic Texts and Studies
Title | A Miscellany of Demotic Texts and Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Paul John Frandsen |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9788772895475 |
Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri.
Greek Horoscopes
Title | Greek Horoscopes PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Neugebauer |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780871690487 |
Greek horoscopes are made available for study. According to the authors, "About 60 horoscopes from the first five centuries of our era have been published since Young (1828) and Champollion-Figeac (1840) in the papyrological literature." They collected all horoscopes from this material, and added a few unpublished pieces that were put at their disposal, at the time this title originally printed in 1959.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Title | Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired PDF eBook |
Author | British Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set)
Title | Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set) PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Renberg |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 1130 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004330232 |
Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of “incubation", the ritual of sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently associated with the Panhellenic healing god Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult sites of numerous other divinities throughout the Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; later, Christian worship came to include similar practices. Renberg’s exhaustive study represents the first attempt to collect and analyze the evidence for incubation from Sumerian to Byzantine and Merovingian times, thus making an important contribution to religious history. This set consists of two books.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Title | Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-. PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Subject catalogs |
ISBN |
Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum 2007
Title | Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum 2007 PDF eBook |
Author | The Supreme Council of Antiquities |
Publisher | American Univ in Cairo Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2010-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789774377297 |
The collection of scholarly essays in this journal documents research in English, French, German, Italian, and Arabic on ancient Egyptian art, museum objects and collections, conservation, museology, and includes essays on the cult of Hathor, excavations at Saqqara, and discoveries in the cemetery of the pyramid builders.
Traditions in Transmission
Title | Traditions in Transmission PDF eBook |
Author | Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2022-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110778912 |
This book is a re-edition and detailed study of a parchment codex from Egypt of the fourth century CE with Greek and Coptic recipes for healing through magic and pharmacology (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Library Ms. 136). A text and annotated translation were published in a brief journal article by William H. Worrell in 1935, but the codex has been understudied since then. This new edition offers advances in readings and interpretation, a thorough philological commentary, and accompanying studies on the ritual and medical traditions to which the codex belongs and its position in the linguistic landscape of Egypt. The recipes comprise magical rituals for healing and broader personal advancement, pharmacological and related medical recipes, and advice for the management of a household. Traditional Egyptian religion and ritual are illustrated in interaction with medical practices of Hellenic culture more recently introduced to Egypt, and the archaic, even poetic language of some of the Coptic invocations featuring the Egyptian gods Amun and Thoth share pages with an incantation constructed from the verses of Homer.