Demotic Literary Texts from the Tebtunis Temple Library and Elsewhere
Author: Kim Ryholt
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
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Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
Author: Kim Ryholt
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 8763507803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st/2nd century AD). Eight of the texts are historical narratives which focus on the first millennium BC. Four concern prince Inaros, who rebelled against the Assyrian domination of Egypt in the 7th century, and his clan. One is about Inaros himself, while the other three take place after his death. Two other narratives mention Necho I and II of the Saite Period. The story about Necho II is particularly noteworthy, since it refers to the king as Nechepsos and, for the first time, provides us with the identity behind this name. Nechepsos is well supported as a sage king in Greek literary tradition, above all, in relation to astrology. Of the two final historical narratives, one belongs to the cycle of stories about the Heliopolitan priesthood and the other concerns the Persian occupation of Egypt in the 5th or 4th century. The volume further includes a prophecy
Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales
Author: Jacqueline E. Jay
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9004323074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.
The Tebtunis Papyri ...
Author: Bernard Pyne Grenfell
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems without Poets
Author: Boris Kayachev
Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
Published: 2021-03-31
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1913701417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the center, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context. The essays collected in this volume attempt, each in its own way, to disentangle the bundles of historically accreted uncertainties and misconceptions that affect individual anonymous texts, including pseudepigrapha ascribed to Homer, Manetho, Virgil, and Tibullus, literary and inscribed epigrams, and unattributed fragments. Poems without Poets will be of interest to students and scholars working on any anonymous ancient texts, but also to readers seeking an introduction to classical poetry beyond the limits of the established canon.
Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Author: Sofie Schiødt
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2023-08-29
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1479823155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient texts Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East presents a collection of articles by leading scholars on scientific practices in the ancient world, with emphasis on the fields of medicine, astronomy, astrology, and other forms of divination. The essays engage with a wide variety of textual sources in many different languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium, including some texts that are edited and discussed here for the first time. The contributors to this volume were tasked with approaching their texts not only as specialists, but also from a cross-cultural perspective, and the resulting body of work reveals new and exciting evidence for the transfer of scientific knowledge across cultural borders in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.
New Approaches in Demotic Studies
Author: Franziska Naether
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-09-23
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 3110662620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume collects current research on manuscripts written in the demotic language, which have recently been discovered in excavations or which can be found in museums worldwide. The manuscripts’ topics range from religion, law, and literature through ancient Egyptian linguistics to the history of economics as well as social history. Featured articles were first presented at the International Conference for Demotic Studies in Leipzig.
Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond
Author: Joachim Friedrich Quack
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic texts: a theological treatise, manuals on dream interpretation, a manual on birth prognosis, three lists of professions and plants, a list recording the titles of twenty cultic treatises, new fragments of the Great Demotic Book of Wisdom text and an astronomical text. It further includes an illustration from a manual on the pantheistic Bes and three fragments of demotic narrative of unknown origin. None of the papyri have previously been edited. "
The Petese Stories II (P. Petese II)
Author: K. S. B. Ryholt
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788763504041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume six of the Carlsberg Papyri series contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period around 100 AD. The Petese Stories is a compilation of seventy stories about the virtues and vices of women. The numerous stories were compiled on the orders of the prophet Petese of Heliopolis that they may serve as a literary testament by which he would be remembered. Petese was, according to literary tradition, Plato's Egyptian instructor in astrology. The composition seems to have been modeled on the fundamental Myth of the Sun's Eye. The overall structural pattern of the text is very similar to the Arabian Nights; a frame story forms the introduction as well as the fabric into which the long series of shorter tales are woven. Among the stories preserved in the new manuscript one is particularly remarkable in that it is known from a translation by Herodotus, the so-called Pheros Story.
Ancient Libraries
Author: Jason König
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1107012562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
