Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries - Demotic, Hieroglyphic Greek Inscriptions from Sacred Animal

This volume features all the graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society by Bryan Emery between 1966 and 1971. The graffiti include dedications to the god Imhotep with an important historical content, and masons'' marks which show some of the construction history of the galleries. There is also a Greek graffito listing the contents of dreams or visions, and a series of dedications on bronze temple furniture which mention a hitherto unknown god. Jars with hieroglyphic signs shed light on one of the main characters found in the Greek Hermetic literature, and a selection of ostraca give insights into the management of the animal cults.>

Zusammenfassung

This volume catalogs all graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, including dedications to Imhotep, masons' marks, a Greek graffito on dreams, and inscriptions on bronze temple furniture and jars.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: J D Ray, J. D. Ray, John D. Ray
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780856982057
• ISBN: 978-0-85698-205-7
• Seiten: 374
• Abmessung: 210 mm x 297 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Texts from Excavations; Texts from Excavations Memoirs; Texts from Excavations
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Language teaching and learning, African Languages, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, c 2686 to c 323 BCE (Ancient Egyptian period), LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages