Ancient Egypt; calendars; divination; papyri; ostraca; New Kingdom; literature; hieratic
Abstract :
[en] The volume presents and analyses all the papyri held at the Egyptian Museum in Turin that transmit the so-called ‘Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days’. Alongside manuscripts already known and published between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the work includes new fragments and previously unpublished copies. The identification of this new material has made a comprehensive review of the publication history and textual transmission of this genre necessary, a genre characterised by the reproduction and reworking of earlier sources.
Disciplines :
Archaeology Languages & linguistics History Literature
