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Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Note on Translations
Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity
Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt
Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology
Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt
Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls
Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority
Conclusion. Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum Subject Index
Acknowledgments
Le naos de Sopdou à Saft el-Henneh (CG 70021) : paléographie /
: "The present work examines the form and function of hieroglyphic signs on the naos of Sopdu from Saft el-Henneh, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. This monument, dating to the 30th Dynasty and inscribed on all four sides, is of considerable epigraphic interest, as there are few similarly long inscriptions from that period. The plates show almost 1,500 signs that have been drawn especially to accompany this publication. These are grouped into 443 categories which are described in the usual format of the collection Paléographie hiéroglyphique: identification of the sign, palaeographical description with particular reference to parallels on contemporary monuments, and function. This volume on the naos of Sopdu is likewise of interest for anyone involved in the study of Egyptian art and religion in the Late Period." -- back cover. : xxxi, 237 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxxi). : 9782724706475
A study of the life and works of Athanasius Kircher, "Germanus incredibilis" : with a selection...
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Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope. His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on. Kircher's books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naiveté: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons. His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004216327 :
1871-1405 ; :
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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) /
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This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Sven Vleeming containing the contributions of thirty-eight friends and colleagues, often renowned specialists in their respective fields. It includes the editions of fifty-four new texts from Ancient Egypt that date from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE and covers a very wide range of subjects in (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic and Greek papyrology. As such, it reflects the equally wide range of knowledge of the scholar to whom this book is dedicated.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004377530 :
0169-9652 ; :
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Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) : The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist /
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In this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic culture of his day, especially of seventeenth-century oriental studies. His extant Nachlass allows a close scrutiny of the life and work of an early modern scholar, focussing on his training, travels, the ambitious Harmonia linguarum orientalium (1647) and other works, and the interests he fostered as a professor of history and theology in Jena. It aims to shed light on the broad and understudied field of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Germany.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004466463
9789004466449
Derrida and Film Studies /
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Derrida and Film Studies views Jacques Derrida's in-depth and meandering ideas within the realm of film. Bringing together audiovisual culture and deconstruction, the book explores the spectral turn of cinema. Seeing the phenomenon of film as impacted by deconstruction and poststructuralism, the essays offer a wide spectrum of perspectives and illustrate the reception of Derrida's thought for a new generation of philosophers of film. Using both well-known and pioneering methodologies, this rich volume is an essential guide for understanding the importance of spectrality, hieroglyphics, writing and difference, and alterity in film.
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1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004729186
The forgotten scholar : Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) : at the dawn of Egyptology and Coptic studies /
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Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga's scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.
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1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004290839 :
1566-2055 ; :
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Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová /
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The publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.
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1 online resource (xl, 518 pages) :
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9789004312616 :
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The great dedicatory inscription of Ramesses II : a Solar-Osirian Tractate at Abydos /
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This volume covers, for the first time, the interaction of a major historical event with the development of the Egyptian Solar-Osirian theology. Pharaoh Ramesses II visited the sacred area of Abydos soon after his recognition of power at Luxor in Thebes. With him were many high officials, one of whom would be soon appointed to be the high Priest of Amun at Thebes, Nebwenenef. During his visit, the king stressed his personal relationship with his father, Seti I as well as ordering the completion of his temple. By analyzing certain passages within Ramesses' official acccount, the Dedicatory Inscription, with others of Seti, a more nuanced appreciation of the growing theological system of Osirus plus Re, the sun god, comes to the fore. This significance of this is heightened when we remember that the king's account was exhibited in the portico of Seti I's temple. \'Anthony Spalinger's new monograph discusses the Great Dedicatory Inscription and these processes anew by means of perspicuous, accurate, translations of the surviving texts, enlivened by equally stimulating commentaries. These are accompanied likewise by meticulously researched footnotes, which have been marshaled with a diligence for which the author is rightly renowned...All of this is done here with exemplary skill and a fine eye for detail, and our libraries are far the richer for it.\' A.J. Peden
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1 online resource. :
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9789047442578 :
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A history of the animal world in the ancient Near East /
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This book is about all aspects of man's contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals. A reference guide and key to the menagerie of the Ancient Near East, with ample original illustrations.
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1 online resource (xxii, 620 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-601) and index. :
9789047400912 :
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Writing History in Ottoman Europe (Fifteenth - Eighteenth Centuries) /
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The various forms of history writing of Early Modern Ottoman Europe were never the object of a comprehensive or comparative approach. The aim of the present volume is to fill in this major gap. Leading specialists in the field, many of them being Brill authors, have joined forces in an attempt to reflect the diversity of history writing in the Ottoman Empire, in its European part.
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1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004626317
The debate between a man and his soul : a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian literature /
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This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul ). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature. It is also one of the most difficult and continually debated, as well as being the subject of more than one hundred books and articles. The present study offers new readings and translations, along with an analysis of the text's grammar and versification, and a complete philological apparatus.
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Includes a transliteration of the original text with English translation. :
1 online resource. :
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9789004193062 :
1566-2055 ; :
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A master of secrets in the chamber of darkness
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The Master of Secrets: Robert K. Ritner / Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs
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The Ritner Stela / Megaera Lorenz and Mary Szabady
Black Magic (Woman) / Solange Ashby, University of California, Los Angeles
An Additional Layer of Complexity: Northern and Southern Warets in Middle Kingdom Administration / Kathryn E. Bandy, University of Chicago
Hieroglyphs of Value across the Great Green /Karen Polinger Foster, Yale University
Seth the Gleaming One / François Gaudard, University of Warsaw and University of Chicago
“Destructive Flame,” “Dazzling Beauty,” and “Source of Enlightenment” : Royal Light : Terminology and Metaphor from the New Kingdom to the Late Period / Katja Goebs, University of Toronto
The “Libyan Family” at Kawa: Fashion as a Political Statement of Taharqo / Aleksandra Hallmann, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences
A Version of Book of the Dead Spell 99 in Demotic (P. Dem. MAIL 1) / Richard Jasnow, Johns Hopkins University
Three Demotic Silver Accounts from the ISAC Museum Collection / Jacqueline E. Jay, Eastern Kentucky University, and Foy D. Scalf, University of Chicago
Assorted Observations on Inheritance in Ancient Egypt / Janet H. Johnson, University of Chicago
Akhenaten and the Opening of the Mouth Ritual? An Enigmatic Karnak Talatat Block Found at Luxor Temple / W. Raymond Johnson, University of Chicago
A Portal for Isis of Djeme / J. Brett McClain, University of Chicago
Sur quelques passages de la Stèle de la tempête d’Ahmosis / Pierre Meyrat, University of Geneva
A Group of Three Human Figurines from Tell Edfu / Nadine Moeller, Yale University
A Note on the Meeting Places of Egyptian Associations / Ian S. Moyer, University of Michigan
Alterity, Amalgamation, and Royal Identity in Early Egypt / Hratch Papazian, University of Cambridge
Once Again the Boatmen’s Joust: A Study in Ritual and Symbolic Action / Peter A. Piccione, University of Charleston
Syntactic and Modal Markers (“Particles”) in the Texts of the Shabaqo Stone / Joshua A. Roberson, University of Memphis
The Transmission of Magical Texts at Deir el-Medina: A Hieratic Copy of a Horus Cippi Text on Ostracon ISACM E17008 / Foy D. Scalf and Brian P. Muhs, University of Chicago
Spells on the Interior of the Headboard of the Coffin of Ahanakht and Connections with Chapters from the Book of the Dead / David P. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania
Merenptah’s Israel, His Shasu Militiamen, His Copper Caravan Route, and the Watering Stations / Bearing His Name at Kadesh-barnea and Me-nephtoah: Part One / Richard C. Steiner, Yeshiva University
The Inscribed Clay Cobra Figurines of Abydos: Protecting the Reawakening of Osiris / Kasia Szpakowska, Swansea University
Three Demotic Ostraca from Dakhla Oasis (Mut 30/2, 30/15, and 42/12) / Günter Vittmann, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
The Twenty-Second Dynasty Coffin of a Chantress in the Pure Foundation of Ptah: A Glimpse into Priestly Society in Libyan-Period Memphis / Jennifer Houser Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
New Light on the Mayors and Ruling Family of Wah-Sut / Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
“I Interrogated the Arabs of the Desert”: Local Interlocutors in the Egyptological Research of Claude Sicard, 1712–1726
Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Louisville
The Last Buchis Bull(s) of Armant: Notes on the End of an Indigenous Animal Cult in Late Roman Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong, University of Michigan
New Observations on the Cryptographic Text of Pinudjem I at Medinet Habu / Jonathan Winnerman, University of California, Los Angeles
From single sign to pseudo-script : an ancient Egyptian system of workmen's identity marks /
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Writing is not the only notation system used in literate societies. Some visual communication systems are very similar to writing, but work differently. Identity marks are typical examples of such systems, and this book presents a particularly well-documented marking system used in Pharaonic Egypt as an exemplary case. From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script is the first book to fully discuss the nature and development of an ancient marking system, its historical background, and the fascinating story of its decipherment. Chapters on similar systems in other cultures and on semiotic theory help to distinguish between unique and universal features. Written by Egyptologist Ben Haring, the book addresses scholars interested in marking systems, writing, literacy, and the semiotics of visual communication.
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1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004357549 :
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