Between temple and tomb : the demotic ritual texts of Bodl. MS. Egypt. a. 3(P) /
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The ancient Egyptians believed that rites performed for Osiris, the god of the dead, played a critical role in maintaining Egypt?s well-being and prosperity. Not only did they ensure the renewed fertility of the country?s arable land, they also guaranteed the political and social cohesion of the Egyptian state. However, it was not only at the national level, but at the individual level as well, that the Egyptians deemed such rites to be beneficial. Ritual texts intended to restore Osiris to life, suitably adapted, could also be recited for deceased individuals. Thus they could benefit from them in the same way that Osiris did. In the Graeco-Roman Period, adapted ritual texts of this sort were employed alongside texts originally composed for use in the funerary cult of ordinary deceased people. A number of ritual texts which are first attested in the private sphere subsequently appear in the temple sphere as well. Some ritual texts appear to have moved back and forth from one sphere to another, which suggests that the boundaries between the Osirian temple cult and the private funerary cult may have been more fluid than we usually imagine.0The ritual texts edited in this volume offer an excellent opportunity to explore these and related issues. Most of them are known to have been employed both for the benefit of the god Osiris and for ordinary deceased people, in certain cases, during one and the same period of Egypt?s history. This is one of their most interesting and striking features. They stand at the interface between temple cult and cult of the dead and allow us to trace the transmission of beliefs and practices from one sphere to the other.
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205 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172). :
9783447113311
3447113316 :
2190-3646 ;
Demotic Papyri from the Memphite Necropolis (P. Dem. Memphis) : in the Collections of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum /
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2 v. (203 p. + [56] p. of plates) : Illustrations ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9782503530574 (pbk. : v. 1)
9782503533520 (pbk. : v. 2)
Hieratic, Demotic and Greek studies and text editions : of making many books there is no end : Festschrift in honour of Sven P. Vleeming (P.L. Bat. 34) /
: xxiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004345713 (hardback : alk. paper) : 0169-9652 ;
Les associations religieuses en Egypte d'apres les documents demotiques /
: Includes romanized transcription, French translation and philological commentary of the texts of regulations of religious associations contained in papyri Lille 29, Cairo 30605-30606, 30619, 31178-31179, Berlin 3115, and romanized transcription with French translation of the papyri Prague and Hambur 1. The atlas contains facsims. of the papyri. : vii, 270 pages : illustrations, atlas (17 folded facsims) 28 cm. : Bibliography : pages [263]
Mélanges offerts à Ola el-Aguizy /
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OCLC 911611276
Pagination: second sequence numbered in western Arabic numerals 1-450; in eastern Arabic numerals 451-490.
This volume presents forty articles offered to Professor Ola el-Aguizy by her friends and colleagues to express their respect for her contribution to Egyptology, whether in the scientific domain or in the international links she created between Cairo University and many other academic institutions across the world. Emeritus Professor at the Cairo University Faculty of archeology in which she made all her career, Ola el-Aguizy greatly contributed to the formation of her students and to the mentoring of their research through her scientific strictness. -- Publisher's website. :
xiii, 490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9782724706635