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The Wisdom of Thoth : Magical Texts in Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (141 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784912482
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Wisdom of ThothDDC classification:
  • 306.4
LOC classification:
  • BF1591 .W573 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface 1 Alessandro Roccati Thoth on magical gems 3 Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Agata Świerzowska Mag -- Contents -- The Pyramid Texts as Magical Texts? -- Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska -- Ramesside magical books in Turin -- Alessandro Roccati -- Magicians' instruments in PGM and the archaeological evidence: some examples -- Carla Sfameni -- Egyptian Theological Lore in PGM IV: a religious-historical commentary -- Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- Sorcery among powerless corpses. An interpretation of the 'restless dead' in Greek curses, imprecations and verse inscriptions -- Andrzej Wypustek -- Thoth on magical gems -- Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Agata Świerzowska -- Magic in the sign: iconic writings in the Litany of Neith at Esna and the performative nature of the divine name (Esna 216.1-4) -- Emanuele M. Ciampini -- Genius loci. Some religious and magical aspects of graffiti in the 'tomb of Memnon' (Ramesses VI) in the Valley of the Kings1 -- Adam Łukaszewicz -- Egyptian Predynastic tokens - traces of magic or economic activity? The beginnings of abstract writing and calculating system or a relic of early magical practices -- Piotr Kołodziejczyk -- The protection of the body in ancient Egyptian texts -- Edyta Kopp -- Alphabetic magic: traces of a new version of the Cyranides -- Attilio Mastrocinque -- Jesus in ancient pagan magic: the Anna Perenna drawings -- György Németh -- Magic in the iconography of 21st Dynasty coffins and papyri -- Andrzej Niwiński -- The discovery of the fountain of Anna Perenna and its influence on the study of ancient magic -- Marina Piranomonte.
Summary: This volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Poland between 27-28 June 2013.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface 1 Alessandro Roccati Thoth on magical gems 3 Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Agata Świerzowska Mag -- Contents -- The Pyramid Texts as Magical Texts? -- Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska -- Ramesside magical books in Turin -- Alessandro Roccati -- Magicians' instruments in PGM and the archaeological evidence: some examples -- Carla Sfameni -- Egyptian Theological Lore in PGM IV: a religious-historical commentary -- Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- Sorcery among powerless corpses. An interpretation of the 'restless dead' in Greek curses, imprecations and verse inscriptions -- Andrzej Wypustek -- Thoth on magical gems -- Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner, Agata Świerzowska -- Magic in the sign: iconic writings in the Litany of Neith at Esna and the performative nature of the divine name (Esna 216.1-4) -- Emanuele M. Ciampini -- Genius loci. Some religious and magical aspects of graffiti in the 'tomb of Memnon' (Ramesses VI) in the Valley of the Kings1 -- Adam Łukaszewicz -- Egyptian Predynastic tokens - traces of magic or economic activity? The beginnings of abstract writing and calculating system or a relic of early magical practices -- Piotr Kołodziejczyk -- The protection of the body in ancient Egyptian texts -- Edyta Kopp -- Alphabetic magic: traces of a new version of the Cyranides -- Attilio Mastrocinque -- Jesus in ancient pagan magic: the Anna Perenna drawings -- György Németh -- Magic in the iconography of 21st Dynasty coffins and papyri -- Andrzej Niwiński -- The discovery of the fountain of Anna Perenna and its influence on the study of ancient magic -- Marina Piranomonte.

This volume represents a selection of contributions on Mediterranean themes from a wider international interdisciplinary conference on Magical Texts in Ancient Civilizations, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in Poland between 27-28 June 2013.

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