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The ancient Egyptian book of the Moon : Coffin Texts spells 154-160
This text 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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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Summertown, Oxford
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
, 2019
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| Series: | Archaeopress Egyptology
22 |
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| Online Access: | http://altertum.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/archaeopress/www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/emedium/fid/Archaeopress/9781789691993 - eBook.pdf |
| Author Notes: | Gyula Priskin |
| E-Book Packages: | Archaeopress : Selected E-Books in Archaeology |
| Notes: | FID-Lizenz "FID Altertumswissenschaften" (keine Universitätslizenz) |
| Summary: | This text 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 |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (ii, 254 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781789691993 |
