A Fragment of a Diagonal Star Table from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA M80.202.500) /
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This article offers the edition of two columns of a so-called diagonal star table that are inscribed on a wooden batten (LACMA M80.202.500) that was once affixed to the underside of the lid of a Middle Kingdom coffin. The two columns follow the Kenmet table format, bringing the number of known artifacts preserving Kenmet tables up to eleven. The item is without provenance, but, like the other Kenmet tables, is likely from the site of Assiut and dates to the early Middle Kingdom.
A Textual Amulet from Theban Tomb 313 (Papyrus MMA 26.3.225) /
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Edition of a textual amulet held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (MMA 26.3.225). Found in Theban Tomb 313 as a folded and tied packet, the papyrus sheet is inscribed with an apotropaic incantation and drawing. The incantation invokes “The Entities of Khemenu,” that is, the eight members of the Ogdoad, and orders them to offer protection to the owner of the amulet. The drawing is only partly preserved, but depicted originally two symmetrically arranged crocodiles attacking a figure positioned between them. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.53.2017.a012
Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE) /
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This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Leiden University, 2003). :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-328) and indexes. :
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