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Hieratic Texts from the Collection (Paperback)
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Hieratic Texts from the Collection (Paperback)
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This seventh volume of The Carlsberg Papyri is dedicated to
hieratic manuscripts from the Egyptian Tebtunis temple. The
Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient temple library of which
substantial remains are preserved, and the immense
materialestimated at several hundred manuscriptsmakes it by far the
richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This present
volume is introduced by a survey of the hieratic and hieroglyphic
manuscripts from the temple library. The survey is followed by full
editions of a series of religious texts: an Osiris liturgy, the
Ritual of Bringing Sokar out of the Shetit (previously known only
from monumental hieroglyphic versions from temples and manuscripts
for funerary use), the Votive Cubit (otherwise known essentially
from fragments of the original stone cubits), the Nine-Headed Bes
(a parallel to the famous illustrated Brooklyn papyrus but with a
fuller description of how the practitioner should proceed), and the
Ritual of Opening the Mouth (on
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