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Egypt Literature & Papyri

The Ancient Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers: A Mythological, Religious, Literary and Historico-Political Study
by Susan Tower Hollis
What is the meaning of this story from antiquity, so similar in form to the European folktale? The "Tale of Two Brothers" describes a rite of passage, telling the the nearly universal story of a handsome and chaste young shepherd who rejects seduction by a powerful older woman and, after many adventures, becomes king. The story of this shepherd, Bata, is intertwined with that of his brother Anubis who, deceived at first, is unceasing in his ...
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Books of Breathing and Related Texts: Catalogue of the Books of the Dead and Other Religious Texts in the British Museum, Volume IV
by F R Herbin
The British Museum's collection of late hieratic religious papyri, particularly those of the Graeco-Roman period, is one of the most important in the world, in terms both of its number and its diversity. The papyri mainly comprise funerary texts laid beside the deceased as guides in the underworld, but also temple rituals, liturgies and texts of magical inspiration. For each of the fifty or so documents catalogued the author provides a general ...
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Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow by A. G. McDowell
Mcdowell, A. G.
This volume presents the 27 limestone and hieratic ostraca collected by Rev. Colin Campbell in Egypt at the turn of the century and donated by him to the Hunterian Museum. All but one come from the New Kingdom community of Deir el-Medina, the exception being a Ptolemaic copy of the Offering of the mnw-vase. The main group of ostraca contains hymns, magical, literary, administrative, legal and economic texts. Many texts are published here ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
edited by Roger S. Bagnall
Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology provides an introduction to the world of these ancient documents and literary texts, ranging from the raw materials of writing to the ...
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Culture in Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons
edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford
Essays straddle prose and verse, literary and subliterary texts, addressing both theoretical issues and specific practical problems of interpretation which contribute to the difficulties faced in giving form and meaning to the diverse and fragmentary evidence of ancient literary history. Broader topics considered include the methodology of editing fragments, the problems of identifying authorship (New Comedy being treated as a test case), the ...
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The Mortuary Papyrus of Padikakem: Walters Art Museum 551
by Yekaterina Barbash
This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The initial text, a Ritual of Introducing the Multitude on the Last Day of Tekh, is identified as a temple liturgy by its rubric title, while its themes recall love poetry and the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The second text, a rarely ...
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Receipts, Scribes and Collectors in Early Ptolemaic Thebes
by Brian P. Muhs
Publishes 157 tax receipts and other texts from Thebes in Early Ptolemaic Egypt (332-200 BC), including 102 Demotic texts and 55 Greek or bilingual texts. The texts are grouped and discussed by tax category, whilst additional chapters reconstruct the careers of tax officials, and analyse the affairs of those taxpayers who appear in several texts. 327, 56 b/w pls (Peeters 2011)
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Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: The Mother of Apis Inscriptions
by H.S. Smith, C.A.R. Andrews and Sue Davies
The Mother of Apis inscriptions (534-41 BC), found in 1966-71 in and outside the Mother of Apis Catacomb at North Saqqara by the Egypt Exploration Society, comprise the stelae and graffiti of the masons who constructed the catacomb and of the priests who oversaw the work and conducted the burial and other rituals for the cows. The texts include genealogies of the masons and some accounts of their work and rations. This study includes ...
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Hieratic Documents from the Ramesside Period in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo
by Abdel Rahman Abdel Samie
This volume presents seventeen ostraca and two jar labels from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo with transliteration, translation and commentary. All were discovered during Davis and Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings, and interpretive remarks explore the relationship between the finds and the locations and spread of workmen's huts in the valley. 114p, 19 b/w pls (Golgen House Publications 2010)
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Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts
by Rune Nyod
Drawing on a theoretical framework from cognitive linguistics and phenomenological anthropology, "Breathing Flesh" presents an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and its individual parts in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. From this starting point, more overarching concepts and cultural models are discussed, including the ritual conceptualisation of the acquisition and use of powerful substances such as 'magic', and the role of ...
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