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Museum Tusculanum Press Hieratic Texts from the Collection
Mainly dedicated to hieratic manuscripts from the Tebtunis temple library and contains contributions by Alexandra von Lieven, J F Quack, and Kim Ryholt. The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved, and the immense material -- estimated at several hundred manuscripts -- makes it by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. The present volume is introduced by a survey of the hieratic and hieroglyphic manuscripts from the temple library. The main genres are discussed and conclusions are drawn concerning the sort of compositions transmitted in hieratic as well as the cultural values which lie behind the choices. The survey is followed by full editions of a series of religious texts: an Osiris liturgy, the Ritual of Bringing Sokar out of the Shetit (previously known only from monumental hieroglyphic versions from temples and manuscripts for funerary use), the Votive Cubit (otherwise known essentially from fragments of the original stone cubits), the Nine-Headed Bes (a parallel to the famous illustrated Brooklyn papyrus but with a fuller description of how the practitioner should proceed), and the Ritual of Opening the Mouth (one version written for Sobek, lord of Tebtunis, the others for Sokar-Osiris). The volume further includes a slip of papyrus with four book-titles, a papyrus with a coloured drawing of an offering scene, and a decorated band for tying up a papyrus roll.
£45.00
Museum Tusculanum Press Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
£45.00
Museum Tusculanum Press Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies, Copenhagen 23–27 August 1999
£90.00
Museum Tusculanum Press Story of Petese Son of Petetum & Seventy Other Good & Bad Stories
The book presents a complete edition of the three known versions of the ancient Egyptian narrative The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy Other Good and Bad Stories, copied from the 4th century BC through the 2nd century AD. The narrative, written in Demotic, employs the literary device of a main story containing a series of brief stories presented to a specific character. In the main story, a prophet commits an act of blasphemy and is punished by the gods. Through magical means the prophet learns from Osiris that he has only 40 more days to live. On the fifth day the prophet creates a number of magical beings which he sends out to find 35 "good" stories and 35 "bad" stories, one pair of stories for each remaining day of his life. These stories are then presented to the prophet. In this respect it is remarkably similar to Arabian Nights.
£46.79
Museum Tusculanum Press Hieratic Texts from Tebtunis: Volume 45
£51.29
Museum Tusculanum Press Petese Stories II
£54.89
Museum Tusculanum Press Lotus and Laurel: Studies on Egyptian Language and Religion
£64.79
Museum Tusculanum Press Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond
£97.19
Museum Tusculanum Press Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
£58.49
Museum Tusculanum Press Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections
£71.09