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
Performing the sacra : priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain /
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'Performing the Sacra' addresses a range of cultural responses to the Roman conquest of Britain with regard to priestly roles. The approach is based on current theoretical trends focussing on dynamics of adaptation, multiculturalism, and appropriation and discarding a sharp distinction between local and Roman cults. The perspective is shifted from a centre-periphery model towards a spectrum of cultural responses. The text investigates a wide range of published and unpublished evidence to examine three main themes: a model of priesthood organisation, the embodiment of priestly authorities in a provincial environment, and how the different depositional contexts of priestly regalia contribute to our understanding of these roles.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789690989 (ebook) :
Third Time’s the Charm? A Document from the Reign of Claudius and the Councillor Priests, Redux /
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This paper offers a new edition of P.Mich. inv. 664, a Demotic text that has already been edited twice and received miscellaneous reading corrections; further improvements can be made. The papyrus is a receipt issued by the crocodile priesthood of Soknebtunis and is also the oldest text yet known that records in Demotic the payment of the so-called “Temple Tax on Property Transfer.” It is therefore of no small importance for our understanding of the organisation of the priesthood and the fiscal status of the Tebtunis temple in the first century AD.
A Late Middle Kingdom Private Stela of the Priests of Hathor (Cairo Museum CG 20780) /
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In this paper, the stela of Senbi (CG 20780), the great wab-priest of Hathor, as well as overseer of fields, and his wife Nebunakht, who was also a priestess of Hathor, is published exclusively for the first time. The stela is currently preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Unfortunately, nothing is mentioned about this stela’s provenance in the museum’s records. The stela alludes to several titles of both Senbi (imy-r3 3?(w)t and w‘b ‘3 n ?wt-?r) and his wife Nebunakht (?mt n?r ?wt-?r), but the unique peculiarity of the stela is its reference to the epithet sn ?q3 “The Brother of the Ruler.” This stela can be dated to the late Middle Kingdom based on the individuals’ names, as well as the titles of the owner and his family. The design and the depiction of multiple members in the stela are also characteristics of the Middle Kingdom stelae. All these criteria, along with some relevant grammatical features contribute to a late Middle Kingdom date—most likely the Thirteenth Dynasty. The author describes the stela, discusses its philological, iconographical, and stylistic features, and examines the titles of its owners.
Bab El-Gasus in context : rediscovering the Tomb of the priests of Amun /
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Proceedings of a conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 19-20, 2016.
ISSN 0081-6299 (incorrect). :
592 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-589). :
9788891320681
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Gottes- und Priesterherrschaft in Ägypten am Ende des neuen Reiches : ein religionsgeschichtliches Phänomen und sein sozialen Grundlagen /
: Originally presented as author's Habilitationsschrift--Freien Universität Berlin, 1989. : xxxvii, 620 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 3447032170 : 0720-9061 ;
A Family of Lector-Priests at Edfu: Oriental Institute Stela E11455 and the 'Ib Family during the Early Eighteenth Dynasty /
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This article presents the study of two stelae from Edfu dating to the early Eighteenth Dynasty that represent members of the same extended family of lector-priests from Edfu (Oriental Institute E11455 and Princeton Y1993-151). The texts of both stelae were published in the early twentieth century; however, neither stela has been comprehensively published. The two stelae present the opportunity to revisit the family’s genealogy and chronological position. The study also considers dating criteria for late Second Intermediate period and early Eighteenth Dynasty stelae and assesses the contemporary positioning and role of lector-priests. Finally, it briefly addresses the influence of documentary scribal culture on monumental inscriptions vis-a?-vis the late Second Intermediate period–early New Kingdom Tell Edfu Ostraca. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.56.2020.a004
The tradition of Hermes Trismegistus : the Egyptian priestly figure as a teacher of Hellenized wisdom /
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In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus , Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were directed by Egyptian priests educated in the traditional lore of the temples, but also conversant with Greek philosophy. Such priests, who were increasingly dispossessed with the gradual demise of the Egyptian temples, could find eager adherents among a Greek-speaking audience seeking for the wisdom of the Egyptian Hermes, who was widely considered to be an important source for the philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato. The volume contains a comprehensive analysis of the myths of Hermes Trismegistus, a reevaluation of the Way of Hermes, and a contextualization of this ritual tradition.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004370845 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Servir les dieux d'Égypte : divines adoratrices, chanteuses et prêtres d'Amon à Thèbes /
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Ce catalogue est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition éponyme présentée au musée de Grenoble, du 25 octobre 2018 au 27 janvier 2019. A Thèbes , il y a 3000 ans, des milliers de prêtres et de prêtresses servaient le dieu Amon dans son domaine. C'est à la rencontre de cette société du temple de Karnak, à un moment troublé de l'histoire de l'Egypte, la troisième Période intermédiaire (1069-655 av JC), qu'invite cet ouvrage. Il a été conçu à partir d'un ensemble de cercueils, conservés au musée de Grenoble, ayant appartenu à des chanteuses d'Amon. Qui étaient ces femmes et que faisaient-elles?
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Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée de Grenoble, October 25, 2018 - January 27, 2019. Organized by Musée de Grenoble and Musée du Louvre. :
415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9782757214800
Les annales des prêtres de Karnak (XXI-XXIIImes dynasties) et autres textes contemporains relatifs à l'initiation des prêtres d'Amon /
: Includes texts in hieroglyphics, transliteration, and in French translation : xii, 304 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9068311700 : .alaa-sweed
Law and religion in the Roman republic /
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Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources - epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic - this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life's uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome.
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1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) : illustrations, mappages. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index. :
9789004219205 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.