The ancient Egyptian book of the Moon : Coffin Texts spells 154-160 /

This text proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that they provide a chronologically ord...

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Main Author: Priskin, Gyula (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.

Series: Archaeopress Egyptology ; 22.

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Call Number: PJ1521

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