Search results for ""Author Kim Ryholt""
Museum Tusculanum Press Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies, Copenhagen 23–27 August 1999
£90.00
Museum Tusculanum Press Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
£45.00
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 Petese Stories II
£54.89
Museum Tusculanum Press Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond
£97.19
£75.14
Museum Tusculanum Press Lotus and Laurel: Studies on Egyptian Language and Religion
£64.79
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
New York University Press Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York
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.
£68.40
