to the present day we can count almost 7.000 publications concerning, more or less directly, the Egyptian cults. On average, one publication every three days! This, first of all, means that it is impossible [...] the introduction of Isis worship in the Republican Period. Moreover, the exotic nature of the Egyptian cults clashed with the traditional paganism of the Republican Rome only for the modern mentality [...] that the first (found outside Porta di Nola and mentioning some theoi eueilatoi ) relates to the Egyptian gods, and in the case of the second, the teophoric name Serapio of Lucius Ceius Lucii libertus

specific, well-defined local context. However, we intended to throw also some comparative light on cases that are definitely not locally bounded, like the cult of the so called Egyptian deities, the appearance [...] social, and political mechanisms that »allowed« a new deity to arrive and settle down in an alien context. The main focus was on Athens (e.g. Asklepios, Bendis, Pan, etc.) and Rome (Castores, Aesculapius

Demotistik ist ein Teilgebiet der Ägyptologie, das sich mit der Entzifferung und Edierung von demotischen Texten befasst. Demotisch war eine Schreibschrift für den täglichen Gebrauch, die ab etwa 650 vor Christus [...] geheimnisvoll angezogen: "Why We Do Demotic! The Mysterious Attraction of that 'Most Evil of all Evil Egyptian Scripts'". Auf den 1964 berufenen Institutsgründer Erich Lüddeckens folgte 1981 Karl-Theodor Zauzich

Neugebauer/R.A. Parker, Egyptian Astronomical Texts I-III, London 1960-1969 Abbildungsnachweise Budge 1904 : E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods Of The Egytians. Studies In Egyptian Mythology (London 1904) [...] Bedeutung, da es davon allein neun erhaltene Textzeugen gibt, die von 1300 v. Chr. bis ca. 140 n. Chr. datieren. Tatsächlich spricht jedoch einiges dafür, daß der Urtext bis ins 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. zurückreicht [...] ist dieser Teil des Textes in den verfügbaren Zeugen extrem fragmentarisch erhalten, so daß kaum weiterreichende Aussagen über seinen Inhalt möglich sind. Das eigentliche Ende des Textes ist in keiner der

iche Texte oder Karten der ägyptologischen Forschung bislang nicht bekannt oder sie existieren gar nicht, da man seinerzeit eine präzise Beschreibung des Weges nach Punt für den Zweck der Texte, in denen [...] zur Universalgeschichte der Entdeckungs- und Forschungsreisen. [1] Um die Puntfahrten im Kontext dieser Reisen angemessen verorten zu können, seien einleitend einige Bemerkungen zur Geschichte der [...] folgte von 1815 bis 1914 ein großes "Zeitalter der Erforschung" der Erde [7] , in dem es (im Kontext des aufkommenden Kolonialismus und Imperialismus) zur fortschreitenden Verwissenschaftlichung der

The myth of the Niobids appears widely in ancient texts and images and takes a number of different forms, according to the purpose, medium and context of representation. Several authors provide us with [...] more sensible to refer to datable material from the respective tomb contexts, such as coins or glass vessels. From this external contextual evidence the appliqués can be dated between the end of the 1 st [...] perceived most strikingly in the figure of the winged demon. Burial contexts Information about eleven burial contexts with appliqués of the kind discussed above has been collected, ten of which

Jewish text recounting the successful rebellion of the Maccabees against the Seleucids and the institution of an independent Jewish state for the first time in four hundred years. The tone of this text is [...] in translation of course this is easy to miss, the text itself is written in Greek. This in itself indicates that the anti-hellenistic bias the text so proudly wears on its sleeve is not so intense as [...] Lane points out some of the problems around the interpretation of this piece of text. [6] Apart from the obvious textual problems, it is difficult to see what kind of relationship (if any) there was

(heute London, British Museum EA.718). Quelle: T.G.H. James, British Museum: Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc., London (2. Auflage) 1961, Tf. 29 [...] hinaus fungieren sie als wichtiges Mittel der Entlohnung. Flachs liefert den Hauptrohstoff zur Textilienherstellung. Charakteristisch für die Arbeitsprozesse des Ackerbaus sind die kurzen Entfernungen, die sich

salary to be paid to a priest. In the following some of these questions will be addressed in the context of the cult of the Thracian goddess Bendis and her Thracian worshippers. Bendis: some [...] right was rarely granted. Beside the Thracians we only know of merchants from Kitium on Cyprus, and Egyptians ( IG II² 337) who had received this privilege by 332. This can be explained by the importance [...] XLVII 22.4, mentioned by Seleukos in his commentary on the axiones , 341 F I). In the context of this paper, a law mentioned by Philochoros ( Atthis 4, frg. 94; cf. Suda s.v. orgeōnes )