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in: M. Capasso and P. Davoli (eds), Soknopaios, the Temple and Worship (Edaphos 1; Lecce, Rovato, 2015) 187-232
‘Archaeology of Discourse: The Scribal Tradition in the Roman Fayyûm and the House of Life at Dimê’
Martin Andreas Stadler
The article studies the various Demotic scribal hands attributed to Roman Soknopaiou Nesos/Dimê. It tries to find its way through a thicket of scholarly assumptions and problematic formations of collections in the 19th century. In the second part it presents a sketchy overview of the religious texts in Egyptian that were written down in the Hous of Life at the Temple of Soknopaios. The latter, however, will be superseded by updating, expansion and correction in a chapter in M. A. Stadler, Théologie et culte au temple de Soknopaios: Études sur la religion d’un village égyptien pendant l’époque romaine (Paris, in press).
Oxford Handbook of Egyptology
Greek and Latin sources
2020 •
Ian Moyer
A wealth of Latin and Greek sources is available for the study of Egypt, both literary texts preserved in manuscripts, and historical documents inscribed on stone, or written on pa pyrus, pottery shards, and other writing materials. Though literary texts, including an cient Greek accounts of Egyptian history, ethnography and geography must be read in the cultural context for which they were produced, they can also provide useful information on Egyptian history in the periods contemporary with classical Greek and Roman civiliza tion, as well as evidence of how Egypt was remembered and represented by Greek and Roman authors, as well as by Egyptians themselves. The volume of Greek and Latin papyrus documents and inscriptions is enormous and provides an invaluable resource for the study of Egyptian history, especially its economic and social aspects, but also for the study of cultural and ethnic relations between Egyptians and immigrant populations. Col laboration between specialists in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian materials is vital to getting the full benefit of these resources for the study of ancient Egypt.
Religion Compass 1/1
Religious Literature of Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt
2007 •
Jackie Jay
Note that there is some confusion in the place names listed on pp. 94-95: although currently scattered throughout many collections, the bulk of the material from the Tebtunis temple library is now in Copenhagen and Florence, while that thought to be from Soknopaiu Nesos is in Vienna and Berlin.
ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades
Zosimos Aigyptiakos. Identifying the Imagery of the "Visions" and Locating Zosimos of Panopolis in His Egyptian Context
2022 •
Marina Escolano-Poveda
The first alchemist for whom we have biographical data, Zosimos, lived in the Panopolis (current Akhmim) of the late third–early fourth centuries CE, a region in which evidence of the practice of traditional Egyptian religion is attested well into Late Antiquity. The images that Zosimos employed in his presentation of alchemical procedures and apparatus offer us an insight into his cultural context. This paper will examine a series of passages from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis from an Egyptological perspective, contrasting them with textual and iconographic sources from the Egyptian temple milieu of Graeco-Roman Egypt. The results of this inquiry will be used to elaborate a more nuanced presentation of Zosimos’ identity.
One Who Loves Knowledge. Studies in Honor of Richard Jasnow [Front Matter]
2022 •
Betsy Bryan, Marina Escolano-Poveda
The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends, and family in honor of Richard Jasnow, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Despite his claiming to be “just a demoticist,” Richard Jasnow’s research interests and specialties are broad, spanning religious and historical topics, along with new editions of demotic texts, including most particularly the Book of Thoth. A number of the authors demonstrate their appreciation for Jasnow’s contributions to the understanding of this difficult text. The volume also includes other studies on literature, Ptolemaic history, and even the god Thoth himself, and features detailed images and abundant hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Coptic, and Greek texts.
" Caught in the Web of Words " —Remarks on the Imagery of Writing and Hieroglyphs in the Book of Thoth
Richard Jasnow
A composition of the House of Life, such as the Book of Thoth will obviously deal with the hiero-glyphs and writing in general. In this article I explore the figurative language used in that book for such scribal subjects. I am particularly interested in how the author speaks about the hieroglyphs themselves and the priestly scribes associated therewith. I draw heavily on new readings and interpretations of the text for this discussion.
‘Thoth’, in: J. Dieleman and W. Wendrich (eds), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: Open version, http://escholarship.org/uc/nelc_uee, 1st ed. (Los Angeles CA, 2012).
Martin Andreas Stadler
The Egyptian god Thoth is best known as a god of writing and wisdom, a lunar deity, and vizier of the gods, but was also a cosmic deity, creator god, and warrior. Being one of the oldest deities of the Egyptian pantheon, he is attested in many sources from the earliest periods of Egyptian history up to the Roman Period. The etymology of his name remains unexplained, possibly due to the name's antiquity. Perhaps it is his age as a divine figure that led to a rather confusing mythology with a series of contradicting traditions concerning his descent and his reputation as a benevolent versus atrocious or mistrusted deity. Under the influence of Hellenism, he transformed into Hermes Trismegistos in Roman times and lived on as such well into the European renaissance.
James Clauss and Martine Cuypers (eds.), A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell Companions to Ancient Literature and Culture; Oxford 2010) 429-47.
Egyptian Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Period
2010 •
Jacco Dieleman
The Hermetic Logos: reading the" Corpus Hermeticum" as a reflection of Graeco-Egyptian mentality
Ronaldo Gurgel Pereira
"This study analyses Hermetic literature and focuses on the seventeen treatises of the so-called Corpus Hermeticum, with support of other philosophical Hermetica as well. As will be demonstrated, Hermetic literature helps our understanding of how reformulations of symbolic universes led to a specific Graeco-Egyptian mentality. The Hermetica will be treated as the result of cross-cultural exchange between Greek and Egyptian symbolic universes. This literature is here analysed according to its historical context, i.e. as part of a Greek-Egyptian dialogue."
"Greek Fiction and Egyptian Fiction. Are They Related and If So How?" in The Romance Between Greece and the East, eds. T. Whitmarsh and S. Thomson (Cambridge, 2013), 23-37.
Ian Rutherford
