Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond |
|
| Editor:
| Ryholt, Kim |
| Series title: | Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications |
| ISBN: | 978-87-635-2607-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
| Publisher: | Museum Tusculanum Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $88.00 |
Book Description:
|
The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved – by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic texts: a theological treatise, manuals on dream interpretation, a manual on birth prognosis, three lists of professions and plants, a list recording the titles of twenty cultic treatises, new fragments of the Great Demotic Book of Wisdom text and an...
More Description
The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved – by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic texts: a theological treatise, manuals on dream interpretation, a manual on birth prognosis, three lists of professions and plants, a list recording the titles of twenty cultic treatises, new fragments of the Great Demotic Book of Wisdom text and an astronomical text. It further includes an illustration from a manual on the pantheistic Bes and three fragments of demotic narrative of unknown origin. None of the papyri have previously been edited.