Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture /
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Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004513037
9789004512955
Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture /
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Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004513037
9789004512955
Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead : The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living /
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In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: the Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters. Hsieh shows how oral indicators, toponyms, and adverbs in these Letters signal a practice that was likely performed aloud in a tomb or necropolis, and how the senders of these Letters demonstrate a belief in the power and omniscience of their deceased relatives and enjoin them to fight malevolent entities and advocate on their behalf in the afterlife. These Letters reflect universals in beliefs and practices and how humankind, past and present, makes sense of existence beyond death.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004472327
9789004472310
Geographisch-osirianische Prozessionen aus Philae, Dendara und Athribis : Soubassementstudien II /
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OCLC 824605088 :
xvii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9783447067539
3447067535 :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=27785&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=17619437
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Die regionale Mythologie Ägyptens nach Ausweis der geographischen Prozessionen in den späten Tempeln /
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Dieses Buch beschließt das auf drei Bände angelegte Projekt zu den geografischen Prozessionen im Soubassement (Sockelbereich) der Tempel der griechisch-römischen Zeit. Hauptgegenstand sind die beiden großen vierteiligen geografischen Prozessionen auf der Außenseite des Naos und im Hof des Horustempels von Edfu. Da die Texte jedoch nicht an allen Stellen perfekt erhalten sind und Parallelen in anderen Tempeln existieren, wurden diese in die Untersuchung miteinbezogen. Die Hauptversionen in Edfu sind fotografisch im beiliegenden Tafelband dokumentiert.0Die Darstellung folgt der Reihenfolge der 22 oberägyptischen und 20 oberägyptischen Gaue (Verwaltungsbezirke) mit ihren jeweils vier Gabenträger, die nacheinander den Gau, den Kanal, das Fruchtland und das Sumpfgebiet repräsentieren. Die Beischriften zu jedem Gabenträger bestehen aus einer Übergabeformel, in der das jeweilige Toponym mit seinen Charakteristika genannt wird, sowie einer Identifikationsformel, bei der sich der Gott des Tempels, in dem sich die entsprechende Prozession befindet (z.B. Horus von Edfu) mit den lokalen Göttern der einzelnen Kultorte identifiziert. In beiden Teilen befindet sich eine Fülle mythologischer Informationen, die hier erstmalig übersetzt und ausführlich kommentiert werden. 0Zusammen mit den in den beiden ersten Bänden der Soubassementstudien analysierten Prozessionen ergeben sich rund 1.000 verschiedene kulttopografische Themenbereiche, von denen eine beträchtliche Anzahl außerhalb dieser Prozessionstexte nicht bekannt ist und in dieser Fülle selbst auf Papyri nicht durchgehend für alle Regionen Ägyptens erhalten ist. Mit dem von Florian Löffler für diesen Band erstellten Gesamtindex kann der 2.000 Seiten umfassende Inhalt der drei Bände nun leichter erschlossen werden.
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2 volumes (xxiii, 708 pages, 172 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9783447107600
344710760X :
2190-3646 ;
Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová /
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The publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.
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1 online resource (xl, 518 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004312616 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Das Ritual der Aštu (CTH 490) : Rekonstruktion und Tradition eines hurritisch-hethitischen Rituals aus Boğazköy/Ḫattuša /
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The Ritual of Aštu, a text found at the Hittite Capital of Hattuša, shows strong influence from southern Anatolia and describes a Hurrian-Hittite ritual against witchcraft and sorcery. The following study provides detailed philological treatment of the 13th-century fragments found at Hattuša, from which the ritual is known, including transcription, translation, and commentary of all manuscripts, as well as special emphasis on the Hurrian passages of the ritual. Reconstruction of the more fragmentary sections is undertaken through comparison to other rituals. The study concludes with an analysis of Anatolian, Luwian, and Kizzuwatnaian influences evident in the ritual, and affords, in sum, valuable additions to the study of the nature of Hittite archives, and the development of ritual texts. "I firmly believe that works like this are essential to creating the dialogue that is necessary for the progress of our understanding of Hurrian. Görke's treatment of the various texts and her discussions of many aspects of the ritual will prove very useful to scholars working on Hurro-Hittite religion." Dennis R.M. Campbell, San Francisco State University
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004181182 :
1566-2055 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.