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Author: Burkhard Backes
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447058766
Category : Book of the dead
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Mit Irmtraut Munro geht Anfang 2009 eine der produktivsten Forscherinnen zum altagyptischen Totenbuch in den Ruhestand. In den vergangenen 15 Jahren erschien im Harrassowitz-Verlag ein Dutzend Monographien von ihr zu diesem Thema. Die Festschrift versammelt 17 Aufsatze befreundeter Wissenschaftler und Kollegen aus insgesamt 10 europaischen Landern. Dem Hauptinteresse der Jubilarin entsprechend bilden Publikationen und Studien zu einzelnen Textzeugen des Totenbuchs einen inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt des Buches. Weitere Beitrage befassen sich mit ihrer Ikonographie, Uberlieferungsgeschichte sowie ihrem Inhalt und ihren Vignetten. Einige Beitrage gehen uber den Bereich des Totenbuchs hinaus und nehmen Bezug auf weitere Texte wie das Mundoffnungsritual und die Pyramidentexte. Insgesamt behandelt das Buch ausgewahlte Fragen zum Totenbuch uber seinen gesamten Belegzeitraum vom Neuen Reich bis zur Ptolemaerzeit.

Author: Stephen Quirke
Publisher: Golden House Publications
ISBN: 1906137714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw "Book of the Dead" papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period. The volume gives at least one version of every written composition, together with one or more images for the essential pictorial component of all writings for which illustrations are known. Writings at the margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus, including all ascribed "Book of the Dead" numbers in Egyptological publications, are included in the final section. The translations are supported by a thematic and historical introduction and closing glossary.

Author: David Frankfurter
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817

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This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.

Author: Thomas Galoppin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311079845X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1274

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Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions. Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.

Author: Jochem Kahl
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN: 387548942X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Mohamed Abdelrahiem: The Festival Court of the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos (Part II). Hartwig Altenmüller: Anubis mit der Scheibe im Mythos von der Geburt des Gottkönigs. Stefan Baumann: Der saisonale Aspekt der Ressortgötter in der Opfereingangskammer von Edfu. Francis Breyer: Die ›Punthalle‹ von Dair al-Ba?ri aus dem Alten Reich. Philologisch-epigraphische, textkritische und ikonographische cruces im Zusammenspiel von Darstellungen und Inschriften. Martin Fitzenreiter: Zeit und Raum (und Licht) – Wahrnehmung und deren Konstruktion im pharaonischen Ägypten (Notizen zum Grab des Pennut Teil VI 1⁄2 ). Jana Helmbold-Doyé: Kronen in der Bilderwelt der Ptolemäer- und Römerzeit. Die Kronenfelder in den Gräbern 1 und 2 von Anfouchy (Alexandria). Jochem Kahl / Mahmoud El-Khadragy / Ursula Verhoeven / Mohamed Abdelrahiem / Ewa Czyzewska: The Asyut Project: Tenth Season of Fieldwork (2012). David Klotz: A Theban Devotee of Seth from the Late Period – Now Missing. Ex-Hannover, Museum August Kestner Inv. S. 0366. Kirsten Konrad: Ein weiterer Basinophor. Zur Deutung der Sitzstatue eines Schreibers namens Eje (Ijj). Maxim Kupreyev: Questions of time in Late Egyptian. A missing category? Günther Lapp: Ein ungewöhnlicher Osirishymnus aus der Übergangszeit von Sargtexten zum Totenbuch. Dina Metawi: A Possible Father-Daughter Marriage in the New Kingdom (Cairo Museum N 129). Jan Moje: Die hieroglyphisch/demotische Stele Louvre E 13074: Synoptische Untersuchung der bilinguen Inschriften. Ludwig D. Morenz: Schrift-Archäologie. Eine Fallstudie zur Grabfassade des Har-chuf. Chloé C. D. Ragazzoli: The social creation of a scribal place. The visitors' inscriptions in the tomb ttributed to Antefiqer (TT 60) (With newly recorded graffiti). Mykola Tarasenko: Development of illustrative tradition of the chapter 42 of the Book of the Dead. Mohamed A. El-Tonssy: Some Unpublished Monuments from Atfih Necropolis. Sami Uljas: A Traitor or a Thief? Teti Son of Minhetep's Crime Once Again. Wolfgang Waitkus: Das Herabkommen des Sternbildes Mcxtjw (Großer Wagen) als eine Periphrase für den Abendbeginn in einem problematischen Festdatum. Anschriften der Autorinnen und Autoren · Tafelteil

Author: Gojko Barjamovic
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763543729
Category : Assyro-Babylonian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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The term ‘canonicity’ implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. Scribes and benefactors ‘create’ canon in as much as they teach, analyze, preserve, prom¬ulgate and change ‘canonical’ texts according to prevailing norms. From early on, texts from the written traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were accumulated, codified, and to some extent canonized, as various collections developed mainly in the environment of the temple and the palace. These written traditions represent sets of formal and informal cultures that all speak in their own ways of canonicity, normativity, and other forms of cultural expertise. Some forms of literature were used not only in scholarly contexts, but also in political ones, and they served purposes of identity formation. This volume addresses the interrelations between various forms of ‘canon’ and identity formation in different time periods, genres, regions, and contexts, as well as the application of contemporary conceptions of ‘canon’ to ancient texts.

Author: Rita Lucarelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190210001
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 617

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"Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of the mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and images provides unique information on the scribal practices, mortuary traditions, myths, and priestly rituals in ancient Egypt from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Roman Period. "Book of the Dead" is the conventional name given by Egyptologists to a collection of magical compositions called in ancient Egyptian "Book for coming forth by day". This title refers to the main wish of the deceased, who wished to be able to leave his tomb and move freely between this world and the next. Each Book of the Dead manuscript is unique, although we know of the existence of workshops where the papyri were bought and therefore a few common stylistic features can be recognized according to different regional traditions of writing and manufacture. The spells also present many and various parallels with other magical and ritual texts attested in temples, on magical objects, and amulets, showing that the mortuary literature had in fact a strong link with the daily religious life and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. This Handbook is the first guide to all the aspects and topics of research both in relation to the Book of the Dead itself and to broader research on ancient Egyptian religion and magic"--

Author: Elena Pischikova
Publisher: Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9774166183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city); history.

Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Lockwood Press
ISBN: 1937040437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier Egyptian grammar in March, 2013. The workshop united ten scholars of differing viewpoints dealing with the central question of how to judge and interpret the grammatical value of the written evidence preserved in texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2350-1650 BC). The nine papers in the volume present orthographic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic approaches to the data and represent a significant step toward a new, pluralistic understanding of Earlier Egyptian grammar.

Author: Siobhán McElduff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317641078
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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As long as there has been a need for language, there has been a need for translation; yet there is remarkably little scholarship available on pre-modern translation and translators. This exciting and innovative volume opens a window onto the complex world of translation in the multilingual and multicultural milieu of the ancient Mediterranean. From the biographies of emperors to Hittites scribes in the second millennium BCE to a Greek speaking Syrian slyly resisting translation under the Roman empire, the papers in this volume – fresh and innovative contributions by new and established scholars from a variety of disciplines including Classics, Near Eastern Studies, Biblical Studies, and Egyptology – show that translation has always been a phenomenon to be reckoned with. Accessible and of interest to scholars of translation studies and of the ancient Mediterranean, the contributions in Complicating the History of Western Translation argue that the ancient Mediterranean was a ‘translational’ society even when, paradoxically, cultures resisted or avoided translation. Indeed, this volume envisions an expansion of the understanding of what translation is, how it works, and how it should be seen as a major cultural force. Chronologically, the papers cover a period that ranges from around the third millennium BCE to the late second century CE; geographically they extend from Egypt to Rome to Britain and beyond. Each paper prompts us to reflect about the problematic nature of translation in the ancient world and challenges monolithic accounts of translation in the West.