Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology Books
Arcturus Publishing Egyptian Myths and Tales
Book SynopsisLewis Spence (1874-1955) was a Scottish writer and folklorist. He was a keen researcher into mythology and helped popularize the Mayan religious text the Popol Vuh. He wrote several books on Celtic, Egyptian and Mesoamerican mythology, as well as discussions of Atlantis and texts on the occult. This volume also includes stories by Donald Mackenzie, Frank Henry Brooksbank and James Baikie.
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Arcturus Publishing The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Book SynopsisThe version of Egyptian funerary scrolls used in this edition is that of the famous and well-preserved Papyrus of Ani, written around 1500BC. Ani was the Royal Scribe of Thebes, Overseer of the Granaries of the Lords of Abydos, and Scribe of the Offerings of the Lords of Thebes.Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was a renowned Egyptologist who worked at the British Museum in London and made significant contributions to the Museum's collections of cuneiform tablets and papyri as a result of his many trips to the Near East. He was a prolific author who contributed much to the study of hieroglyphics.
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Arcturus Publishing The Egyptian Alchemy Oracle Book Card Deck
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Osiris
Book SynopsisBojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris from the third millennium B.C. to the Roman conquest of Egypt. Demonstrates that the cult of Osiris was the most popular and enduring of the ancient religions. Shows how the cult provided direct antecedents for many ideas, traits and customs in Christianity, including the concept of the trinity, baptism in the sacred river, and the sacrament of the Eucharist. Reveals the cult's influence on other western mystical traditions and groups, such as the Alchemists, Rosicrucians and Freemasons. Written for a general, as well as a scholarly audience. Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. Maps. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Prologue: The Myth. 1. The Myth Makers. 2. Enter the Divine King. 3. Abydos. 4. Pyramid Builders. 5. The Mysteries. 6. Rise of the Empire. 7. Golden Pharaohs. 8. Books of the Afterlife. 9. Toward the Sunset. 10. Greeks in Egypt. 11. The Roman Legacy. Epilogue. Notes. Glossary. Egyptian Chronology. Bibliography. Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Night Sky
Book SynopsisWhat stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars?A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children aged 5+ years. Lara Hawthorne''s beautiful illustrations take the reader on one of the most fascinating journeys that humankind has ever made and one that is common to us all.From ancient Egyptians building the pyramids, to early Polynesian sailors criss-crossing the Pacific Ocean, and astronauts travelling into space, the night sky has guided and inspired people across the world, and throughout time.Now it's your turn to look to the skies and discover the mysteries they hide.For fans of Usborne's Big Books of Stars and Planets and Dr Emily Grossman's World-Whizzing Facts!
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Last Dynasty
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with
Book SynopsisThe Greek historian Hecataeus of Abdera declared during the 4th century BCE that the Egyptian civilization was unsurpassed in the arts and in good governance, surpassing even that of the Greeks. During the Renaissance, several ecclesiastical nobles, including the Borgia Pope Alexander VI claimed their descent from the Egyptian god Osiris. In the 1920s, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings prompted one of the first true media frenzies in history. For thousands of years, the Pharaonic culture has been a source of almost endless fascination and obsession. But to what extent is the popular view of ancient Egypt at all accurate? In _Pyramidiots: How We Became Obsessed With Ancient Egypt_, Egyptologist Dr Nicky Nielsen examines the popular view of Egypt as an exotic, esoteric, mystical culture obsessed with death and overflowing with mummies and pyramids. The book traces our obsession with ancient Egypt throughout history and methodically investigates, explains and strips away some of the most popular misconceptions about the Pharaohs and their civilization
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Predecessors of Cleopatra
Book SynopsisIn attempting even a brief and imperfect outline of the history of Egyptian queens the author has undertaken no easy task and craves indulgence for its modest fulfillment. The aim has been merely to put the little that is known in a readable and popular form, to gather from many sources the fragments that remain, partly historic, partly legendary, of a dead past. To present -- however imperfectl -- sketches of the women who once lived and breathed as Queens of Egypt.
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Scholars Press Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Handbook of Egyptian Mythology
Book SynopsisSpanning ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 B.C.E. to C.E. 400), the Handbook of Egyptian Mythology is the only complete survey of Egyptian mythology of its kind available in English. In this comprehensive introduction to Egyptian mythology, author Geraldine Pinch shows how the mythology of Ancient Egypt must be pieced together from a variety of written and visual sources. Relationships between deities changed, and the Egyptian myths were never gathered by priests into an "authorized version." Handbook of Egyptian Mythology provides a brief discussion about the nature of myths; the concept of time in Egyptian mythology; a historical overview of the sources of Egyptian myth; and a dictionary of deities, themes, and concepts, which concentrates on the prominent gods and goddesses in Egyptian myth. The book also includes references to general works on Egyptian culture, religion, and myth; translations of ancient texts; and a selection of literature influenced by Egyptian myth.Trade ReviewStudents at the high-school level and above who are doing research on Egyptian mythology will find this volume interesting and helpful . . . This volume is recommended for medium-sized and large public libraries and academic libraries with lower-division mythology and Egyptology classes. * Booklist *Well-documented and written in clear and concise prose . . . Well organized and thorough, this is an excellent introduction to the complex world of Egyptian mythology. General readers; lower-division undergraduates. * Choice *
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. A Search in Secret Egypt
Book SynopsisIn this book, philosopher Paul Brunton (1898-1981) encounters the mysteries and magic of Egypt in the 1930s, including an eerie yet illuminating night spent alone inside the Great Pyramid. Alongside his explorations of ancient Egypt''s monuments and gods, Brunton encounters a variety of occultists, fakirs, and dervishes, and even manages to become initiated into the deadly art of snake charming. His frank interviews with Muslim leaders remain relevant today, and his description of the Hajj reflects the beauty and inspiring faith of Mohammad''s true followers. Brunton''s journey to discover the furthest reaches of what the mind and body are capable of--and to distinguish various forms of yoga and magic from true spirituality--lead him to the myth of Osiris and to the mystery that is the Sphinx itself. In the end, Brunton turns his attention to his own spiritual path, connecting all of his experiences into a single discovery: that we are more than the body and that the freedom of our spirit can be experienced here and now. This new edition has been updated to incorporate Brunton''s final revisions and includes an introduction by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation. "Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity." --Jean Houston, author of A Passion for the Possible and A Mythic Life"Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton."--Jacob Needleman, author of What is God?
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The Egyptian Expedition Egypt's Role in the Hebrew Bible
Book SynopsisWhen dealing with Egyptian backgrounds and allusions to Egyptian documents and practices in the Hebrew Bible, scholars have tended to draw on Egyptian records dating to the second millennium BCE. Yet, in the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, most of these biblical texts are considered to be compositions dating to the subsequent millennium. Volume 18 of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections presents the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Lausanne on April 22-23, 2015, to explore the Egypt-Bible interface within this chronological constraint, and methodological ones as well. Focusing on sources of first millennium BCE rather those of the periods in which the authors of the biblical texts set the events has generated new lines of interrogation revolving around questions of transmission and reception rather than on the historical background of the events themselves. How Egyptian traditions might find their way into the written tradition of ancient Israel and Judah is, here, the center of the discussion. 20 illustrations, diagrams and maps, some colour.Table of ContentsThe Past and Future of 'Biblical Egyptology' Egyptian Gola in Prophetic and Pentateuchal Traditions: A Socio-Historical Perspective The Egyptian-Canaanite Interface as Colonial Encounter: A View from Southwest Canaan References to the Pharaoh in the Local Glyptic Assemblage of the Southern Levant during the First Part of the 1st Millennium BCE The Role of Egypt in the Formation of the Hebrew Bible Joseph, Ahiqar, and Elephantine: The Joseph Story as Diaspora Novella
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Anness Publishing Sacred Sites of Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisThis is the illustrated guide to the temples, tombs and pyramids. It is a fascinating tour of the temples built to worship the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, including Philae, Karnak and Abydos. It is a detailed survey of the famous tombs of the pharaohs, their queens and their royal officials. It offers compelling insights into the daily lives and religious practices of the ancient Egyptains. It is illustrated with over 500 photographs of the major sites. Ancient Egypt has captivated visitors for centuries. This beautifully illustrated volume offers an intriguing insight into the religious and burial practices of the ancient Egyptians. It reveals the tombs of the three most famous ancient burial sites in Egypt: Giza, Saqqara and the Valley of the Kings, where the famous tomb of the boy-king Tuthankhamun was discovered. It also investigates the numerous temples of the pharaohs, gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. Lavishly illustrated with wonderful photographs and detailed plans of the major sites, this informative book will provide the reader with a fresh and authoritative view of this ancient civilization.
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Floris Books The Sacred Mysteries of Egypt: The Flowering of
Book SynopsisThe Egyptian Book of the Dead, and other papyri and paintings, have long held a fascination for modern people but are easily dismissed as superstitions and fanciful poetry. In recent times, however, serious interest in them has reawakened. What is their origin and could they still hold wisdom for us today?Frank Teichmann has researched Egyptian civilisation for over forty years and in this beautiful, highly illustrated book he shows that a deep understanding of the sacred mysteries of Egypt is key to illuminating the texts and images of the time. Egyptian mystery centres were places of spiritual initiation where trainees had powerful, direct contact with spiritual beings. It was then their task to bring their new-found knowledge to the wider population, through the use of texts like the Book of the Dead.The sacred mysteries that the trainees experienced are also borne out by the spiritual research of Rudolf Steiner. Teichmann explores the mysteries in compelling detail, to show their enduring significance in the present day.Trade Review'This book is beautifully illustrated with 200 colour photographs and is as solid as an Egyptian statue '-- Margaret Jonas, New View
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Amber Books Ltd The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisFor more than 3,000 years, Egypt was home to the greatest civilization on earth. Illustrated with more than 1,500 photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt is a celebration of the wonders of ancient Egypt, from the mask of Tutankhamun to the Valley of the Kings and the great pyramids of Giza, and from tomb hieroglyphs to golden treasures decorated with ankhs and scarabs. Exploring the history, religion, literature, and art of the ancient Egyptians, as well as the day-to-day experience of ordinary citizens such as pyramid builders, scribes, and craftsmen, this book brings to life the world of the pharaohs in vivid detail, providing a wealth of information about this fascinating and mysterious culture.Table of Contents10 History 12 Egypt, Gift of the Nile 16 Egypt before the Pharaohs 20 The ‘Zero’ Dynasty 22 King Narmer, The First Pharaoh? 24 The Thinite Period (The Early Dynastic Period) 28 The Old Kingdom 32 Pharaoh Djoser 34 Khufu- Builder of The Great Pyramid 36 The Time of Pepy I 38 First Intermediate Period 42 Herakleopolis 44 Nubia and Egypt 46 Fortresses in the South 48 The Middle Kingdom 52 Pharaoh Mentuhotep 2 54 Senusret1- Man of Character 56 Senusret III 60 Amenemhat III 62 The Hyksos 64 Second Intermediate Period 68 The New Kingdom 70 Of Workmen and Tomb Robbers 72 Thutmose 1 74 Thutmose 3 76 Hatshepsut, the Pharaoh Queen 78 Amenhotep III 80 Akhenaten’s Religious Reforms 84 Nefertiti- power and beauty 86 Tutankhamun, the boy King 88 Horemheb 90 Sety I 94 Rameses the Great 96 The battle of Qadesh 98 Sea Peoples 100 The Priest Kings 102 Libyans on the Throne 104 Taharqo, Nubian Pharaoh 106 The Persians in Egypt 108 Psamtek 1 110 Alexander as Pharaoh 112 Cleopatra- the Last Queen 114 Religion 116 The Gods of Egypt 122 The Sun Cult 126 Amun, King of the Gods 130 Osiris- God of the Afterlife 134 The Goddess Isis 138 Seth and Nephthys 142 Horus, God of the Sky 144 Hathor, Goddess of Love 148 Sekhmet: Goddess of Destruction 150 Neith, Goddess of Sais 152 Bastet- the Cat Goddess 154 Min, God of Fertility 156 The Lesser Deities 160 Foreign Gods on the Nile 164 The Creation Myth of Hermopolis 168 The sacred Apis Bull 170 The Animal Necropolises 174 Horus, the King's Protector 178 The Sed Festival 182 The Opet Festival 186 Priests, Servants of the Gods 190 God's Wife of Amun 192 Life After Death 196 The Ka, the Ba and the Akh 198 Embalming the body 202 Canopic Jars 204 Food for the Afterlife 208 The Funeral Cortege 212 The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony 216 The Weighing of the Heart 220 Art 222 Art in Ancient Egypt 224 Painters and Paintings 226 Relief-carving Techniques 232 Stelae, Books of Stone 238 Royal Statues 242 Coffins and Sarcophagi 248 The Magic of Jewels 250 Ceramics 256 Funerary Masks 260 Furniture for the Afterlife 264 Rahotep and Nofret 266 Building the Pyramids 272 The Sphinx 278 The Triad Statues of Menkaure 280 The Statue of Ka-aper 282 Seneb and his Family 284 The Temples of Deir el Bahri 290 Thebes, ‘City of 100 Gates’ 296 The Valley of the Kings 298 The Settlement of Deir el-Medina 304 The Tomb of Nakht 308 The Colossi of Memnon 312 The Temple at Luxor 318 The Art of Akhenaten 322 Tell el-Amarna 324 The Mask of Tutankhamun 326 The Tombs of Horemheb 332 The Monuments of Rameses 2 338 The Temples of Abu Simbel 342 Nefertari’s Tomb 346 The Temple of Khons in Karnak 350 Alexandria, the Royal Dream 356 The Fayum Portraits 362 Everyday Life 364 Childhood in Ancient Egypt 368 Children’s Education 372 Marriage 376 Ancient Egyptian Houses 380 Town and City Life 384 Egyptian Society 388 Divine and Worldly Law 392 The Role of Women 396 Clothes and Fashion 400 Cosmetics and Perfumes 404 Hygiene and Body Care 408 goldsmiths and Jewellers 410 Civil Servants 414 Workers and Patrons 416 Fruits of the Soil 420 Keeping and Breeding Animals 424 The Slaughter of Animals 428 Vines and Wine 432 The Brewing of Beer 436 The Hunt 440 Music in Egyptian Life 442 Life in the Oases 446 The War Chariot 452 The Nilometer 456 Egyptian Astronomy 460 Mathematics and Measurement 464 Ancient Egyptian Numbers 466 Applied Physics 470 The Egyptian Calendar 474 Measuring Time 476 Medicine 480 Textile Production 484 Boats in Ancient Egypt 488 Weapons 492 Metalworking 496 Mining and Quarrying 502 The Rosetta Stone 504 Reading Hieroglyphs 506 Hieroglyphs from Life 510 The Egyptian Alphabet 514 Hieratic Writing 518 Coptic, the Script of the Christians 522 Writing Materials 526 Making Papyrus 530 Temple Inscriptions 534 Coffin Texts 538 Administrative Papyri 540 Index
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Quercus Publishing Myths in Minutes
Book SynopsisThe world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold.Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, they are the templates for all our stories, with their eternal themes of creation and destruction, fate and cunning, heroism and cruelty, sensuality and war. Retold here are nearly 200 myths - from Prometheus defying Zeus to create man to the destruction of Troy; and from valiant battles against Frost Giants and Cyclopes to the heroic quests for the Golden Fleece and Holy Grail - including a commentary on their origins, common themes and meanings. Compellingly written, concise and with each myth illustrated with an iconic image, Myths in Minutes is the perfect way to understand and enjoy the world's major fables. Includes the great Ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian legends: The Labours of Heracles; The Gods of Olympus; Zeus defeats the Titans; Hades and the Underworld; Theseus and the Minotaur; The Gorgons; Perseus and Andromeda; Oedipus and the Sphinx; The Judgment of Paris; The Trojan Horse; The Odyssey; Jason and The Golden Fleece; Romulus, Remus and the Founding of Rome; Mars, the God of War; The Eye of Ra; The Murder and Resurrection of Osiris; and more.The best of Celtic, Norse, Eastern, American, Oceanic and African myths: Gilgamesh and the Great Flood; Odin's Great Sacrifice; Thor's Adventures in the Land of the Giants; The Treachery of Loki; Ragnarok - The Last Battle; The Eight Immortals; The War Between the Sun and the Stars; Quetzalcoatl, The Plumed Serpent; Ganesh, the Elephant-headed; Ananse and the Sky God; King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; the age-old stories of the Aboriginal Dreaming; and many; many more.
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UCL Press Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient
Book SynopsisExamining literature and other cultural forms, Victoria Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being rediscovered' in the modern world.
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Archaeopress Tutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Gods:
Book SynopsisTutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Gods offers a new interpretation of the terms Dt and nHH as fundamental concepts of Pharaonic ideology. The terms Dt and nHH have often been treated as synonyms reflecting notions related to the vastness of time. However, from the study of original source material – the texts and iconography compiled over some three millennia and authored by those who surely had complete understanding of their subject matter – it becomes clear that those modern interpretations are somewhat questionable. Clues to the connotations which may be ascribed to Dt and nHH are perhaps most clearly apparent in texts and imagery from the reign of Tutankhamun – a time of political upheaval during which it was more than usually important to express traditional mores with clarity to demonstrate a return to the well-established ideology underpinning pharaonic culture prior to the Amarna interlude. Testing those indications against the wider range of extant literary material confirms that Dt and nHH were neither synonyms, nor were they entirely temporal in nature, but rather referenced a duality of ontological conditions which together were fundamental to the fabric of pharaonic ideology. The reappraisal of this duality of conditions allows the many texts and iconographic depictions surviving from dynastic Egypt to be considered from a new perspective – one providing deeper insight into the character of pharaonic culture. Moreover, it becomes apparent that the influences of an ideology which evolved during times pre-dating the pyramid builders permeated the philosophical and theological treaties of the scholars of ancient Greece and Rome, and thence into more recent times. At least two great gods may live on.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1: Time ; Notions of Dt and nHH as presented in modern Western scholarship ; The nature of time ; The metaphysical-physical duality ; Chapter 2: Reality ; Eternity and sempiternity: echoes of the Dt-nHH duality ; Greeks in Egypt ; Practitioners in the House of Life ; Ancient Egyptian influences in the works of Plato ; Chapter 3: Contexts ; The principal texts ; Synonymity ; Dt and nHH in the age of the Pyramid Texts ; For ever and ever again: the reading of the phrase Dt Dt ; Dt and nHH in the age of the Coffin Texts ; Dt and nHH as aspects of creation ; Chapter 4: Graphics ; The components of nHH ; The constituents of Dt ; Chapter 5: Ideology ; The royal epithet ; The realisation of ma‘at ; Horus kingship in relation to Dt and nHH ; The king in time and the ever-present ideal ; The ritual landscape as a reflection of Dt in nHH ; Chapter 6: Exegeses ; The Dt-nHH duality in textual analysis ; Two Coffin Texts ; Speos Artemidos ; The Neskhons document ; Afterlife ; Chapter 7: Misdirection ; The illusion of philosophical dissociation ; The misconstrual of Dt and nHH as Egyptology evolved ; Religious doctrine and political ideology ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
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Andrews UK Limited All About: Extraordinary Egyptians
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Amber Books Ltd The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Book SynopsisAncient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise – but it was quite a hazardous journey so you would need help along the way. So spells and magic formulas written on papyrus were placed in coffins and burial chambers and believed to protect and aid the deceased in duat, or the underworld. These funerary texts were developed over many centuries into individualized collections known as the Book of the Dead. One of the best-known versions, the ‘Papyrus of Ani’, is featured here. Some 192 spells are known, although no single manuscript contains them all. The spells are designed to give the dead mystical knowledge in the afterlife, offer incantations to help preserve different parts of the deceased, and protect the dead from hostile forces. Some of the spells are to make sure you can control your own body after death. The ancient Egyptians believed that a person was made up of different elements: body, spirit, name, heart, all embodiments of a person, and they were afraid that these elements would disperse when you died. Presented in a high-quality Chinese-bound format with accompanying illustrations, Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ideal resource of esoteric wisdom for anyone interested in Ancient Egyptian notions of death and the path to the afterlife.Table of ContentsIntroduction From the Papyrus of Ani: HYMN TO OSIRIS A HYMN OF PRAISE TO RA WHEN HE RISETH IN THE EASTERN PART OF HEAVEN HYMN TO OSIRIS UN-NEFER THE CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY TEXTS RELATING TO THE WEIGHING OF THE HEART OF ANI THE SEVEN ARITS THE PYLONS OF THE HOUSE OF OSIRIS THE PRIESTS ANMUTEF AND SAMEREF THE SOLAR LITANY THE CHAPTER OF THE NEW MOON THE NEGATIVE CONFESSION ADDRESS TO THE GODS OF THE TUAT THE CHAPTER OF REPULSING SLAUGHTER IN HENSU THE TEXTS IN THE FUNERAL CHAMBER
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Amber Books Ltd The Egyptian Book of the Dead
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Cruzian Mystic Books Meditation: The Ancient Egyptian Path to
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Mandrake of Oxford Ritual Year In Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisThis book began life as an extended appendix to "Supernatural Assault in Ancient Egypt" where it provided additional information on the cosmic tides that ebb and flow through us as they did the ancient Egyptians. It concerns the ritual year and offers a conventional summary of the main principles of the ancient Egyptian calendar along with examples of seasonal rites. More radically it presents new material on the older Lunar calendar of the preformal times. Here too the author offers rites for a thirteen of the most archaic Egyptian ''neters'' -- beginning with Seth, Sokar and Hathor. Over the millennia we have lost contact with these tides, and stand alienated from Nature. This first ''Eden'' is restorable by a return to these ancient principles.
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Mandrake of Oxford Supernatural Assault in Ancient Egypt: Seth, Evil
Book SynopsisYou are in your bed. It is dark, you hear footsteps coming up the stairs and into your room. There is someone there -- a presence. They lie on you or beside you, gripping you tightly, crushing you into the bed. You can''t move. There may be a sound, a grunt or a strange smell. Time passes, you are paralysed with fear. Eventually the entity changes, expanding or contracting, moving away from you, sinking to the floor. With a great effort of will you manage to move the tip of your finger, then the hand until movement returns to your whole body and the experience ends. You have been visited by the old ''hag''. Dreams, the real theatre or perhaps battlefield of magick, influenced by cosmic tides that ebb and flow through us as they did the ancient Egyptians. Over the millennia we have lost contact with these tides, and stand alienated from Nature. To restore that first ''Eden'' we must undertake an exercise in the archaeology of knowledge. We must reconstruct the ancient Egyptian Wheel of the Year, revealing archaic, pre-dynastic Mysteries, the Lunar Mysteries of Horus and Seth.
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Mandrake of Oxford Egyptian Magick: A Spirited Guide
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Pimpernel Press Ltd Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure: The
Book SynopsisSir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt – the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Re-discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant explorer Giovanni Belzoni, the sarcophagus now resides in Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields. Leading Egyptologist John H. Taylor outlines the life of Seti I, the background to the creation of the sarcophagus, the excitement surrounding its re-discovery and the fascinating story of its journey to London and its acquisition by Sir John Soane. At the heart of the book is a fully illustrated interpretation of the complex imagery and hieroglyphic inscriptions which cover the delicately carved surfaces of the sarcophagus. The book also includes an essay by Helen Dorey on the celebrations held at the Museum to welcome the arrival of the sarcophagus of Seti I in 1825. Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure is published to mark the 200th anniversary of the re-discovery of the sarcophagus in 1817, and to accompany a major exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, opening in October 2017.
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Mandrake Amduat: The Great Awakening
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Classical Press of Wales Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and
Book SynopsisMagic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across a wide period.Trade Review[A]n excellent collection of essays on Ancient Egyptian magic, dreams and prophesy. -- Robert D. Bates * Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin *Table of ContentsThe Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & Middle Kingdom - John Baines The End is Near - Leonard Lesko Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" - Maria Costanza Centrone The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and Flint in Pharaonic Egypt - Carolyn Graves-Brown Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature - Alan B Lloyd Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian Dream Exegesis From a Comparative Perspective - Scott Noegel In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice - Daniel Ogden Sinuhe's Dream - Richard B Parkinson A Black Cat From Right, and a Scarab on Your Head: New Sources for Ancient Egyptian Divination - Joachim Quack The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg - John Ray 'And Each Staff Transformed Into a Snake': The Serpent Wand in Egyptian Magic - Robert K Ritner A Lost Dream Episode - Anthony J Spalinger Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday - Kasia Szpakowska Entangled or Connected: The Power of Knots and Knotting in Ancient Egypt - Willemina Wendrich
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INSTAP Academic Press The Shrine of Eileithyia Minoan Goddess of
Book SynopsisThis volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece. The cave was a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess Eileithyia. The Aegyptiaca of the Minoan and Mycenaean eras on Crete signify the political and economic relations between the Aegean rulers and the Egyptian royal court. Several of the objects are Egyptian scarabs, and they certainly represent official Egyptian-Cretan affairs, especially those dating from the reign of Amenophis III to the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Much of the cataloged objects come from the 10th to 7th centuries B.C., and they are appropriate for venerating the goddess of childbirth and motherhood. The statuettes, seals, and vessels are lavishly illustrated with plates of color photographs.Table of Contents Introduction Summary of Other Archaeological Work near Inatos Introduction to the Aegyptiaca from the Inatos Cavel Statuettes in Steatite and Ivory Statuettes of Faience Seal Amulets Spindle Whorl Vessels and Vessel Fragments Summary of the Aegyptiaca from Inatos References Indices Plates
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Adventures Unlimited Press Eden in Egypt: Adam and Eve Were Pharaoh
Book SynopsisThe Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the (originally) four branches of the Nile Delta. This observation takes Ralph into the depths of the Genesis account, and it would seem that Adam and Eve were actually Akhenaton and Nefertiti; and so the Genesis story is actually a distillation of Akhenaton''s Hymn to the Aten. Thus the Garden of Eden was originally the Garden of Aten (Akhenaton''s god), and it resided at Amarna in Middle Egypt. The book also demonstrates that Hebrew is a direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, and that the Bible was written in Egyptian. This allows us to see that much of the Old Testament was based upon very ancient Egyptian law, stories and morality-tales.
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Lockwood Press The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth
Book SynopsisIllustrated in b/w with 109 figures, 69 plates and 9 tables. Collections of scenes and texts designated variously as the "Book of the Earth," "Creation of the Solar Disc," and "Book of Aker" were inscribed on the walls of royal sarcophagus chambers throughout Egypt's Ramessid period (Dynasties 19-20). This material illustrated discrete episodes from the nocturnal voyage of the sun god, which functioned as a model for the resurrection of the deceased king. These earliest "Books of the Earth" employed mostly ad hoc arrangements of scenes, united by shared elements of iconography, an overarching, bipartite symmetry of composition, and their frequent pairing with representations of the double sky overhead. From the Twenty-First Dynasty and later, selections of programmatic tableaux were adapted for use in private mortuary contexts, often in conjunction with innovative or previously unattested annotations. The present study collects and analyses all currently known Book of the Earth material, including discussions of iconography, grammar, orthography, and architectural setting. Trade Review Table of ContentsContents List of Figures, Tables, and Plates Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 General remarks 1.2 Underworld Books 1.3 The Designation of "The Book of the Earth 1.4 Definition of the Corpus 1.5 Outline of Sources 1.6 Content and Internal Structure of the Book 1.7 The Notational System Used in the Present Study 2. Architecture 2.1 Development of the Royal Tomb in the Valley of the Kings 2.2 Underworld Cosmology and Architecture 2.3 Considerations on the Evolution of the Ramesside Royal Tomb: Precursors and Prototypes 2.4 Internal Orientation in the Mature Ramesside Royal Tomb 2.5 Catalogue of Monuments 2.6 The Symbolic Significance of the Ramesside Sarcophagus as akhet and Divine Birth Station 2.7 Excursus: The Sarcophagi 3. Orthography 3.1 General Remarks 3.2 Orthographic Variation among Individual Signs 3.3 Phonetic Change 3.4 Adaptations from the Hieratic 3.5 Shape Substitutions 3.6 Superfluous Signs 3.7 Miscellaneous 3.8 Cryptography 4. Grammar 4.1 General Remarks 4.2 The Introductory Formula 4.3 Pronouns 4.4 Prepositions 4.5 The Proclitic Particle 4.6 Circumstantial 4.7 Noun + sdm=f Construction 4.8 sdm.hr=f 4.9 Subject + Stative vs. Pseudo-Verbal Construction 5. The Vignettes 5.1 General Remarks 5.2 Catalogue of Scenes 5.3 The Merneptah Template 5.4 The Aker Group 6. The Texts 6.1 General Remarks 6.2 The Cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos 6.3 Merneptah 6.4 Tawosret 6.5 Ramesses III 6.6 Ramesses IV 6.7 Ramesses VI 6.8 Ramesses VII 6.9 Ramesses IX 6.10 Twenty-First Dynasty Mythological Papyri 6.11 Osorkon II 6.12 Pedamenopet 6.13 Mutirdis 6.14 Padineith 6.15 Horira'a 6.16 Sarcophagus of Nakhtnebef 6.17 Sarcophagus of Tjahorpta 6.18 Sarcophagi Inscribed on the Model of Ramesses III 7. Closing Remarks 7.1 The Internal Structure of the Books of the Earth 7.2 Date of Composition 7.3 The Original Function of the Books of the Earth, from the Later New Kingdom (Dynasties 19-20) 7.4 The History and Evolution of the Books of the Earth from the Third Intermediate Period and Later Appendix 1, Tables Appendix 2, Black and White Plates Appendix 3, Text Plates Bibliography Indices
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Lockwood Press Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic
Book SynopsisThe Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the preparation of scholarly works for publication. Trade Review Table of ContentsEditor's Note Ihab Khalil "I Was Not Built Up in the Womb, I Was Not Knit Together in the Egg, I Was Not Conceived": The Christian Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of the Son in Its Egyptian Context Michael S. Domeracki Origen and the Possible Restoration of the Devil Heather Barkman The Church of the Martyrs in Egypt and North Africa: A Comparison of the Melitian and Donatist Schisms Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment Coptic New Testament Fragments in the Brigham Young University Collection Helene Moussa Coptic Icons: Expressions of Social Agency and Coptic Identity? Magdy El-Shammaa Religion, Media, and Politics
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Lockwood Press The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos, Volume 1
Book SynopsisOf all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind, his temple at Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one of his most elegant monuments, with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh, the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects, for example, the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt-and particularly at Abydos-in the aftermath of the Amarna period. Over a seven-year period, the authors of The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos conducted a field project with the aim of producing an up-to-date and comprehensive architectural, photographic, and epigraphic record of the temple. This lavish volume, the first of two documenting their results, is presented in two parts ('Part 1: Exterior Walls and Courts' and 'Part 2: Chapels and First Pylon') is the first of two volumes documenting their results. It presents more than two hundred detailed line drawings-accurately rendered according to modern epigraphical standards-of the temple's carved relief scenes, placed alongside their corresponding full-color photographs. The result is a masterpiece of modern epigraphic research and publication. Volume 1 consists of of two books, with a total of over 400 illustrations and Preface. Volume 2, "Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions", contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.Trade Review Table of Contents Part One: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Maps Exterior Walls West Wall North Wall South Wall East Wall Courts Court A Court B Court C Part Two: Chapels Chapel H Chapel G Chapel I Chapel J Chapel K Chapel L Chapel M Chapel E Chapel D Chapel F Chapel S Chapel R Chapel Q Chapel P Chapel N Chapel O Chapel X First Pylon Key to the Plates
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Lockwood Press The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos (Volume 2):
Book Synopsis Of all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind, his temple at Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one of his most elegant monuments, with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh, the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects, for example, the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt-and particularly at Abydos-in the aftermath of the Amarna period. Over a seven-year period, the authors of The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos conducted a field project with the aim of producing an up-to-date and comprehensive architectural, photographic, and epigraphic record of the temple. The result is a masterpiece of modern epigraphic research and publication.This volume - Volume 2, Pillars, Niches and Miscellaea - is the second of two volumes documenting their results. It presents more than two hundred illustrations including detailed line drawings - accurately rendered according to modern epigraphical standards - of elements of the temple as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple. . Trade Review Table of Contents
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Lockwood Press Illuminating Osiris: Studies in Honor of Mark
Book SynopsisIlluminating Osiris contains twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honour of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Professor Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in Ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in this volume naturally reflect his particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated in colour and b&w, and supplied with detailed indexes. Trade Review Table of ContentsIntroduction Egyptological Bibliography of Mark Smith BETSY M. BRYAN (Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, US) Art-Making in Texts and Contexts MARIA CANNATA (Lecturer in Egyptology at NENU IHAC Changchun, China)Titbits from Tatters: Bodl. MS. Egypt. d. 19(P) MICHEL CHAUVEAU(Director of Studies, EPHE Sorbonne, France) L'Agneaurevisité ou la révélation d'un crime de guerre ignoré MARK DEPAUW(Research Professor and Head of Ancient History, University of Leuven, Belgium) A New Date for the "Amarna" Temple Plan in el-Sheikh Said Based on Some Newly Read Inscriptions DIDIER DEVAUCHELLE (Professor of History, Language and Archeology of Ancient Egypt, University of Lille) and GHISLAINE WIDMER (University of Lille) Une transcription en démotique de deux formules du Rituel des offrandes (O. dém. DelM 2-1) FRANÇOIS GAUDARD (University of Chicago) On the "Immortality" of the God Seth FRANÇOIS RENÉ HERBIN (Director of Research CNRS, Paris)La stèle Caire JE 72300 FRIEDHELM HOFFMANN ( Professor, Institute of Egyptology and Coptology, LMU, Munich)Astronomische und astrologische Kleinigkeiten VII: Die Inschrift zu Tages- und Nachtlängen aus Tanis RICHARD JASNOW (Professor of Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University)and KARL-THEODOR ZAUZICH (Chair of Egyptology, University of Wurzburg) Another Praise of the Goddess Ait (O. Sommerhausen 1) JANET H. JOHNSON (Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago)Compound Nouns, Especially Abstracts, in Demotic MPAY KEMBOLY(Faculté de Philosophie Saint Pierre Canisius, Kimwenza, Congo) Grappling with the Notion of Evil in Ancient Egypt HOLGER KOCKELMANN(Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) Sunshine for the Dead: On the Role and Representation of Light in the Vignette of Book of the Dead Spell 154 and Other Funerary Sources from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Egypt ANDREA KUCHAREK (Ägyptologisches Institut Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg) A Hieratic Tablet from TT 196 Reexamined NIKOLAOS LAZARIDIS (Professor of History, California State University) Hyperbole in Demotic Wisdom CHRISTIAN LEITZ (Professor and Director of the Department of Egyptology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) Das Menu-Lied: Eine Anleitung zum Bierbrauen für Hathor in 18 Schritten ALEXANDRA von LIEVEN (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin)Of Choachytes and Saints: Demotic Documentary Texts as Sources for Religious Practices CARY J. MARTIN (UCL Institute of Archaeology) A Third-Century Demotic Land Lease (P. BM EA 10858) MARTINA MINAS-NERPEL (Professor of Egyptology, Swansea University)Offering the ij.t-Knifeto Haroeris in the Temple of Isis at Shanhdur LUIGI PRADA (Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology, Insititute of Oriental Studies, Oxford and Theodor Heuss Research Fellow, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) Divining Grammar and Defining Foes: Linguistic Patterns of Demotic Divinatory Handbooks (with Special Reference to P. Cairo CG 50138-41) and a Note on the Euphemistic Use of xft "Enemy" JOACHIM FRIEDRICH QUACK (Professor and Director of Institute of Egyptology, Heidelberg University)Eine weise Stimme der Autorität (Papyrus Amherst Eg. XLIII.1 rt.): Mit Anhängen über Abrechnungen (Papyrus Amherst Eg. XLIII.1 vs. und XLIII.2) ROBERT K. RITNER (Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago)Pantheistic Figures in Ancient Egypt KIM RYHOLT (Professor of Egyptology, University of Copenhagen)An Egyptian Narrative from Karanis (P. Mich. inv. 5641a) R. S. SIMPSON (Research Fellow and Faculty Tutor, Insititute of Oriental Studies, Oxford) Retrograde Writing in Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions MARTIN ANDREAS STADLER (Professor, Angient Egyptian, University of Wurzburg) Thot und der Skarabäus (Papyrus Wien D 6318) GÜNTER VITTMANN (Professor, Angient Egyptian, University of Wurzburg) Grain for Seth and His Divine Companions in Dakhleh (Ostracon Mut 21/4) SVEN P. VLEEMING (Professor of Egyptology, University of Trier, Germany) A Priestly Letter of Recommendation (P. CtYBR inv. 4628) ALEKSANDRA WARDA (DPhil, Oxford) Statue of Strategos Tryphon from Dendera (SEG LVIII 1823) Abstracts Subject Index, Index of Names, Index of Sources, Index of Selected Egyptian Words in Transliteration Discussed,Plates
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Lockwood Press The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos Volume 3:
Book SynopsisBuilding on the comprehensive photographic and epigraphic documentation of the temple presented in The Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos volumes 1 (Wall Scenes) and 2 (Pillars, Niches and Miscellanea), volume 3 (Architectural and Inscriptional Features) offers a detailed analysis of the overall architectural layout and decorative programme of the temple and its symbolism. Of all the enormous monuments throughout Egypt and Nubia that Ramesses II (the Great; ca. 1279-1212 BCE) left behind, his temple at Abydos, built early in his reign, stands as one of his most elegant, with its simple architectural layout and dramatic and graceful painted relief scenes. Though best known for its dramatic reliefs depicting the battle of Kadesh, the temple also offers a wealth of information about religious and social life in ancient Egypt. It reflects, for example, the strenuous efforts of the early Ramessides to reestablish the Osiris cult in Egypt -- and particularly at Abydos -- in the aftermath of the Amarna period. This discussion approaches the religious history of the site through its archaeology, its inscriptions-both planned and secondary (graffiti)-and its situation in the complex religious landscape of Abydos. Of particular interest are the temple's role as a staging point for the great Osiris Festival and its procession, among the most important of all ritual events in the Egyptian religious calendar during the Ramesside period; the promotion of an active, unbound form of Osiris; and the evidence for important cult activities that took place on the rooftop of the temple, the presence of which is documented today by the staircase that accessed it from Court B.
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Institut Geographique National Renaître avec Osiris et Perséphone
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece and Rome: Essays
Book SynopsisIn this work, Jan N. Bremmer brings together articles on Greek and Roman myths and rituals of male initiation, which have all been updated and, where necessary, revised and translated into English. The preface sketches the rise of the initiatory paradigm within a wider anthropological and Indo-European perspective and discusses the problem of noting ritual elements in mythical reflections. The first of two following sections concentrates on initiatory motifs in a series of famous myths, such as education by shepherds and 'wild men' (Heracles, Centaurs), travesty (Dionysos and Kaineus), the defeat of a monster (Odysseus vs. the Cyclops, Oedipus and the Sphinx) and warring and wandering groups of young men (the Trojan War, Meleager, Orpheus, Theseus and Peirithoos). The second section focuses on historical rituals, beginning with pederasty and the symposium. The author then moves on to the importance of the maternal family and fosterage in the initiatory process before ending with an archaic Latin inscription that reveals the contours of a group of young men in action in the full light of history.
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Harrassowitz Les Recommandations Aux Pretres Dans Les Temples
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Harrassowitz Sedfestritual Und Konigtum: Die Reliefdekoration
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Harrassowitz Die Magischen Texte Von Papyrus Nr. 1826 Der
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Harrassowitz Turoffner Des Himmels: Prosopographische Studien
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Harrassowitz Chnum, Der Herr Der Topferscheibe: Altagyptische
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Harrassowitz Persische Reichspolitik Und Lokale Heiligtumer:
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Harrassowitz Mitteilungen Des Deutschen Archaologischen
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Harrassowitz (Un) Sterblichkeit: Beitrage Des Neunten Berliner
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Harrassowitz 11. Agyptologische Tempeltagung: The Discourse
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