Glorification Spells From a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. It includes a hieroglyphic synopsis of all known examples of the spells, and a transliteration and translation of the copy preserved in the Louvre.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Text Edition


• Translation and Transliteration


• Commentary


• Synopsis


• Images of Papyri and Hieroglyphic Transcriptions

About the author

Ann-Katrin Gill is Akademische Assistentin at the Ägyptologisches Institut/Ägyptisches Museum at the Georg Steindorff-Universität Leipzig. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Mark Smith is Emeritus Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology at University College, Oxford.

Summary

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. It includes a hieroglyphic synopsis of all known examples of the spells, and a transliteration and translation of the copy preserved in the Louvre.

Product details

• Authors: Ann-Katrin Gill, Ann-Katrin (Georg Steindorff-Universitat Lei Gill, Gill Ann-Katrin, Mark Smith
• Assisted by: Gill (Editor), Smith (Editor), Ann-Katrin Gill (Editor), Mark Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9780192898784
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289878-4
• No. of pages: 912
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Religion, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology