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Egyptian magic
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ISBN: 1138968498 1315828618 1317847393 1317847407 9781317847397 0710307993 9780710307996 9781315828619 9781317847380 9781317847403 9781138968493 Year: 2002 Publisher: London

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


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Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt
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ISBN: 9783111096933 9783111079837 311107983X Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment in the afterlife, as well as allowing them to join the entourages of different deities and participate in their worship. Spells referring to or enabling the deceased’s transformations occur in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. But it is not until the Graeco-Roman Period that we find entire compositions devoted to this theme. Two of the most important are P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162, both written in hieratic and dating to the 1st century AD. Both texts have been known to Egyptologists for more than a century, but neither is currently available in an up-to-date comprehensive edition. This book provides such an edition, including high-resolution images of the manuscripts, hieroglyphic transcriptions, translations, descriptions of their material aspects, studies of their owners, their titles, and their families, reconstructions of their context of usage, analyses of their orthography and grammar, and detailed commentaries on their contents.

Ancient Egyptian magical texts
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ISBN: 0585368635 9780585368634 9004058486 9789004058484 900466968X Year: 1978 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Now back in print after 25 years: A small but unusually exhaustive collection of magical texts from some of the most important ancient Egyptian manuals and stelae, translated and organized by the renowned Dutch Egyptologist J.F. Borghouts.


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The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells
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ISBN: 0226044440 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

Priests, tongues, and rites : the London-Leiden magical manuscripts and translation in Egyptian ritual (100-300 CE)
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ISBN: 9004141855 9789004141858 9789047406747 9047406745 1280867418 9781280867415 9786610867417 6610867410 1433707497 9781433707490 Year: 2005 Volume: 153 Publisher: Leiten ; Boston : Brill,

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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 assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.

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Magic, Egyptian --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bilingualism --- Egyptian language --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Magie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Bilinguisme --- Egyptien (Langue) --- Papyrus grecs --- History --- Papyri, Demotic. --- Histoire --- Papyrus démotiques --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Magic --- 133.430932 --- Philosophy & psychology Magic Ancient World Egypt --- Rites et cérémonies --- Papyrus démotiques --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Demotic writing --- Manuscripts, Demotic (Papyri) --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Papyri, Demotic --- To 1500 --- Papyri [Demotic ] --- Manuscripts [Greek ] (Papyri) --- 332 B.C.-638 A.D. --- Bilingualism. --- Civilization. --- Magic. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Greek papyri --- Papyri, Greek --- Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Barbarism --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Egypt. --- A.R.E. --- Ägypten --- Ancient Egypt --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- ARE --- Egipat --- Egipet --- Egipt --- Egiptos --- Egitto --- Égypte --- Egypten --- Egypti --- Ejiputo --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- Ijiptʻ --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Khēmi --- Maṣr --- Miṣr --- Misri --- Mitsrayim --- United Arab Republic --- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT --- Demotisch. --- Egyptian language. --- Egyptische handschriften. --- Griekse handschriften. --- Magie. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri). --- Toverspreuken. --- Égyptien (Langue) --- Magick Studies. --- Witchcraft & Wicca. --- Papyrus démotiques. --- To 1500. --- Égypte --- Magic - Egypt. --- Rites and ceremonies - Egypt. --- Bilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500. --- Egyptian language - Papyri, Demotic. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt.


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Das Aktenbuch des Aurelios Philammon
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ISSN: 18689337 ISBN: 1283857006 311028278X 3110282763 9783110282764 9783110282788 Year: 2012 Volume: 34 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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In dem 1904 erschienenen ersten Heft des vierten Bandes der Berliner Griechischen Urkunden aus Ägypten hatte Wilhelm Schubart unter dem Titel "Aus einem Aktenbuche" die am besten erhaltenen Texte eines Papyruskodex aus dem Ort Hermupolis Magna in Transkription und nur mit knappen Bemerkungen unter den Nummern 1024-1027 veröffentlicht. Unter diesen Texten, die in die Mitte des vierten Jahrhunderts n. Chr. zu datieren sind, befinden sich sieben Prozessberichte, vier Quittungen zur römischen Heeresversorgung, ein amtliches Mahnschreiben des Praeses der Thebais und drei Seiten mit Zaubertexten. Neun Seiten mit damals wenig interessant erscheinenden Aufstellungen und Abrechnungen blieben unberücksichtigt. Ihre Erstbearbeitung ermöglicht jedoch nun entscheidende Aussagen über den inneren Zusammenhang der verschiedenartigen Texte und somit auch über die bisher unbeantwortet gebliebene Frage nach dem Urheber des Kodex. Die Neubearbeitung ist daher von Interesse für Klassische Philologen, Alt-, Rechts- und Kulturhistoriker.

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