TY  - BOOK
AU  - Priskin,Gyula
TI  - The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells 154-160
T2  - Archaeopress Egyptology Series
SN  - 9781789691993
AV  - DT93 .P75 2019 
U1  - 493.1 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Archaeopress
KW  - Egypt-History-30 B.C.-640 A.D
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The spells -- 2.1. Spell 154: the origins of the month -- 2.2. Spell 155: lunar invisibility -- 2.3. Spell 156: the waxing moon -- 2.4. Spell 157: the full moon -- 2.5. Spell 158: the waning moon -- 2.6. Spell 159: the moon at the eastern horizon -- 2.7. Spell 160: a solar eclipse -- 3. General Commentary -- 3.1. The major themes of the spells -- 3.2. Textual layers in the Book of the Moon -- 3.3. The text variants from Deir el-Bersha and Asyut -- 3.4. The survival of the spells in the Book of Going Forth by Day -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This book proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. Based on a new translation, the detailed analysis of these spells reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month
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