The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon

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This book proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that they provide a chronologically ord...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Priskin, Gyula
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2019.
Collection:Archaeopress Egyptology Ser.
Sujets:
Inscriptions, Egyptian.
Inscriptions égyptiennes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
War > Religious aspects.
Moon > Early works to 1800.
Moon > Religious aspects.
Lune > Aspect religieux.
Moon.
Early works.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:This book proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154-160, recorded at beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. The detailed analysis of these spells, based on a new translation, reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:9781789691993
1789691990

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