Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE) /

Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE) /

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 assortme...

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Main Author: Dieleman, Jacco.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Undetermined

Published: Leiten ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 153.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

To 1500
Magic > Egypt.
Bilingualism.
Civilization.
Egyptian language > Papyri, Demotic.
Magic.
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
Rites and ceremonies.
Egypt > Civilization > 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Egypt.
History.

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Call Number: DT61 .D54 2005eb

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