The Dramatic Text of Edfu and the Hymns to the Crown of Ancient Egypt.
| N° d'inventaire | 21280 |
| Format | 17.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 208 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Brest, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365180306 |
This work offers the hieroglyphic transcription, transliteration and translation of the "Dramatic Text of Edfu" and the "Hymns to the Crown".
The "Dramatic Text of Edfu" is based on lapidary inscriptions accompanying eleven bas-reliefs placed on the inner east and west faces of the enclosure wall of the temple of Edfu. This text consists of three parts:
- the text "to the galley",
- the text "of the skiff",
-the canticles of Edfu.
The "Hymns to the Crown" belong to a papyrus from the Golénischeff collection dated to the end of the Hyksos Period, around 1600 BC. This text is presented in twenty columns, seventeen of which have five lines, two have three lines, and another has twenty-nine lines. There are seven chapters in this text, the titles of which are:
- for the White Crown,
-for the One with great magic-"hekaou",
- for the uraeus,
- for the Two Powerful Ones,
- for the Red Crown,
- for "Dendenyt",
- for the uraeus.
This work offers the hieroglyphic transcription, transliteration and translation of the "Dramatic Text of Edfu" and the "Hymns to the Crown".
The "Dramatic Text of Edfu" is based on lapidary inscriptions accompanying eleven bas-reliefs placed on the inner east and west faces of the enclosure wall of the temple of Edfu. This text consists of three parts:
- the text "to the galley",
- the text "of the skiff",
-the canticles of Edfu.
The "Hymns to the Crown" belong to a papyrus from the Golénischeff collection dated to the end of the Hyksos Period, around 1600 BC. This text is presented in twenty columns, seventeen of which have five lines, two have three lines, and another has twenty-nine lines. There are seven chapters in this text, the titles of which are:
- for the White Crown,
-for the One with great magic-"hekaou",
- for the uraeus,
- for the Two Powerful Ones,
- for the Red Crown,
- for "Dendenyt",
- for the uraeus.