Antiquity Studies

Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals

An Interdisciplinary Analysis On Some Unsearched Ritual Practices in the Graeco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM)

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Abstract
The transformations in ancient mind can be recognized by means of texts, which testify to the elaboration of the cultural semantic. Amongst these written sources, we can recognize some specific case-studies, such as the Greaco-Egyptian Papyri (PGM). By conducting open and experimental group research, this study aims to introduce new elements and suggestions for the history of both ideas and tradition of the scientific thought, in the frame of some late rituals. The starting point of this research is the Mediterranean Late Antiquity, an extraordinary lab for exchange, contacts and conflicts amongst traditions and knowledge: as stated by Ph. Borgeaud in his foreword, a perfect place for the study of cultures in contact.

Keywords Materia Magica • Amulets • Gemstones • Typhon • Cross-cultural mixture • Translation • Hellenistic Magicians • Donkey • Hesyès • Cats momies • Textual tradition • Hieratic • Content • Prosperity • Egyptian • Voces magicae • Magical Papyri • Greece and Egypt • Marketing Strategies • Statuettes • Ramesside Egypt • Magic • Prosecution of paganism • PGM • Papyrus Mimaut • Antiquity • History of religions • Greek magical papyri • Graeco Egyptian Papyri • Protection • Rituals • Cultural contact • Libraries • External Characteristics • Identity Markers • Graeco-Egyptian papyri • PGM VII • Graeco-Egyptian Magical Formularies • Seth • Hermetism • Authoritative Tradition • Papyri • Ancient Egyptian Magic • Transmission of knowledge

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-180-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-180-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-7543-439-7 | Published July 12, 2017 | Language fr, it, en

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