Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient texts Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East presents a collection of articles by leading scholars on scientific practices in the ancient world, with emphasis on the fields of medicine, astronomy, astrology, and other forms of divination. The essays engage with a wide variety of textual sources in many different languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium, including some texts that are edited and discussed here for the first time. The contributors to this volume were tasked with approaching their texts not only as specialists, but also from a cross-cultural perspective, and the resulting body of work reveals new and exciting evidence for the transfer of scientific knowledge across cultural borders in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt ... September 2019, New York (ISAW Monographs)

History

Ryholt, Kim

Schiødt, Sofie

Jacob, Amber

Ancient Civilizations

NYU Press

This volume contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period around 100 AD. The Petese Stories is a compilation of seventy stories about the virtues and vices of women. The numerous stories were compiled on the orders of the prophet Petese of Heliopolis that they may serve as a literary testament by which he would be remembered. Petese was, according to literary tradition, Plato?s Egyptian instructor in astrology. The composition seems to have been modeled on the fundamental Myth of the Sun's Eye. The overall structural pattern of the text is very similar to the Arabian Nights; a frame story forms the introduction as well as the fabric into which the long series of shorter tales are woven. Among the stories preserved in the new manuscript one is particularly remarkable in that it is known from a translation by Herodotus, the so-called Pheros Story (Book II, chap. 111).

The Petese Stories II (CNI Publications 29: The Carlsberg Papyri, 6)

Politics & Social Sciences

Museum Tusculanum Press

This volume is mainly dedicated to hieratic texts from the Tebtunis temple library. It begins with a survey of this large body of material, which, for convenience, also includes the much more sparse hieroglyphic material from the library. The survey is followed by editions of the Opening of the Mouth Ritual, the Sokar Ritual, the Votive Cubit, an Osiris liturgy and a list of book titles. German text.

Hieratic Texts from the Collection (Carlsberg Papyri 7) (The Carlsberg Papyri)

Religion & Spirituality

Centuries before the Library of Alexandria, ancient Egypt was home to numerous temple libraries, but only a single large-scale one has survived: the Tebtunis Temple library. Abandoned around 200 CE—but rediscovered by archaeologists in 1900—the library’s contents include an array of scientific, religious, and narrative literature from the first centuries of the Common Era. This collection offers some of the narrative literature found there, translated into English— much for the first time. This book contains ten narratives in total—from stories of Prince Inaros to a new version of the mythological “The Contendings of Horus and Seth.”

Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library (Volume 10) (The Carlsberg Papyri)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Published here for the first time, the Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of which are preserved intact, and smaller pieces of inscribed linen from six mummies. Thomas Christiansen and Kim Ryholt bring together material that spans a period of more than a millennium, ranging from around 1200 B.C. E. to 100 C.E. Most of the manuscripts are guides to the afterlife; eighteen of them contain texts and vignettes from the Book of the Dead, while a minor fragment preserves an illustration from the Book of Amduat. The three remaining manuscripts are funerary passes.

Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections (Volume 13) (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications)

Christiansen, Thomas

This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis - hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narrative, scholarly compositions, and documentary texts - as well as a survey of illustrated papyri. Nearly all of the manuscripts are edited here for the first time, and many of the texts are hitherto unknown.

Hieratic Texts from Tebtunis (Volume 45) (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications)

Political Situation Egpt

Museum Tusculanum

A complete edition of the three known versions of the Egyptian narrative written in Demotic, copied from the 4th century BC through the 2nd century AD, employing the literary device of main story: a prophet commits an act of blasphemy, for which he is punished by the gods. In the remaining 35 days of his life 35 good and 35 bad stories are presented to him.

The Story of Petese Son of Petetum and Seventy other Good and Bad Stories (Cni Publications, 23)

The vast collections of Egyptian objects on display in Western museums attract millions of visitors every year, and they reinforce a cultural fascination for this ancient civilisation that has been a feature of European intellectual history since Roman times. This book tells the story of how these objects came to be here. The book presents the first in-depth analysis of this market during its golden age in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th Century. It is primarily based on the archival material of the Danish Egyptologist H. O. Lange (1863-1943) who, during two prolonged stays in Egypt (1899/1900 and 1929/1930), bought objects on behalf of Danish museums. The travel diaries, and the accompanying photographs, are complemented by a wide range of other sources, including contemporary travel guides and various travel memoirs, which together paint an extraordinarily detailed picture of the extensive antiquities trade. The book looks at the laws governing trade and export, both in theory and practice, and the changes over time. The practicalities of the trade are described: its seasons, the networks of supply, the various methods available for acquiring antiquities, and the subsequent routes of transmission of objects, as well as the different types of dealers operating in Egypt. The geographical distribution of dealers is mapped, and the role of the Egyptian state as a dealer is investigated, both through official sale rooms, and as a seller and exporter of more or less complete tomb-chapels. The final part of the book contains a list, with short biographies, of over 250 dealers active in Egypt from the 1880s until the abolishment of the trade in 1983. Most of them are described here in detail for the first time. The book will be of interest to archaeologists, Egyptologists, papyrologists, museum curators, and historians of science, and is a useful starting point for anyone wishing to understand how the great Western collections of Egyptian antiquities were formed.

The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880-1930: The H.O. Lange Papers (Scientia Danica, Series H. Humanistica) (Vol. 8)

Hagen, Fredrik

Nord Academic

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