Chronique d’Égypte

Un vase inédit conservé au musée de Berlin présente un décor gravé qui peut sans doute possible être attribué à la culture nagadienne. Original par certains aspects, ce décor trouve des parallèles auprès d’autres vases incisés, lesquels permettent d’en proposer une datation et, au-delà, une interprétation de sa frise de motifs et surtout de la structure qu’ils adoptent.

If our aim is to study the ancient Egyptian views on human medicine, we need to relinquish our present-day anatomy model and examine what the ancient Egyptians believed about anatomy. The best information can be acquired by the precise observation of the organs depicted in the artistic renderings of butchery scenes and the details we find on the hieroglyphs F34 and F35. The “crescent-shaped structure” which both signs have in common plays a crucial role in the three-dimensional model we propose that connects heart, stomach and lungs to form a single unit. Using relevant excerpts from pEbers the article demonstrates that this anatomical model with its direct reciprocal correlation is entirely acceptable in emic terms and corresponds completely to the function that has been attributed to each of these organs, both in their normal healthy state and in pathological deviations.

This comprehensive review of F. Haas Dantes’ Transformation eines Königs: eine Analyse der Ausstattung von Tutanchamuns Mumie (Basel, 2022) carefully assesses the analysis and accompanying catalogue of the more than 100 objects placed on the king’s mummy. It identifies strengths and weaknesses of the work and offers important additions. It concludes that the publication is a rich and stimulating source of information on the object corpus and religious beliefs of the Post-Amarna Period, but given its many inaccuracies and methodological flaws, critical use of the work is recommended.

P. Oxy. XV, 1827 (= MP3 2548) et LXXI, 4810 (= MP3 2293.01) conservent des fragments de littérature oratoire. Les deux copies sont l'oeuvre du meême scribe. L'exercice rhétorique 4810 tire sa substance des chapitres XXXI-XXXVI du livre I de Thucydide. Le rhéteur de 1827 a recueilli des matériaux lexicographiques, phraséologiques et idéologiques dans les deux longs discours suscités par l'affaire de la Couronne (Eschine vs. Démosthène), sans nécessairement traiter le même sujet.

Examine in detail the ancient and medieval tradition of ceraunoscopy, that is, the divinatory interpretation of lightning. Furthermore, it offers a new edition of with commentary on P.Oxy. VI 885, an important papyrological testimony to ceraunoscopy.

Xanthippos, the friend of the architect Kleon; Xanthippos, the trierarch of an expensive ‘nine’ in the harbor of Halicarnassus (Pros. Ptol. V 14110); Xanthippos, the ephemeral governor of the Upper Satrapies (Pros. Ptol. VI 15060) - all three, showing corresponding social and military profiles, were one and the same person. Xanthippos' career in the service of the early Ptolemies extended over a period of more than fifteen years (260-244), strikingly coinciding with that of Apollonios the dioike ête ês (261-245). Any link with the Spartan commander who, as the champion of the Carthaginian cause expelled a Roman army from African soil, should be discarded. It would be absurd to suppose that the Alexandria-based gentleman of January 260, Ptolemaic trierarch in 258-257, had settled in Sparta before meddling in the First Punic War by May 255.

I. Messène, Alexandrie, les agônes et les chevaux. - II. Chevaux de course et chevaux de guerre: un lexique différencié pour des montures différentes? - III. Compétitions agonistiques et cavaliers dans la chôra e égyptienne. - IV. L'élevage des chevaux en Égypte hellénistique. - V. Les chevaux des cavaliers-clérouques, des éphèbes et des neaniskoi dans les gymnases de la chôra: 1. Aspects économiques; - 2. L'entraînement hippique. - Conclusions.

Madinet Madi, Missione congiunta delle Universita à di Pisa e Messina, novembre 2001. In una piccola cantina sono stati rinvenuti diversi oggetti, tutti in legno, in particolare un sonaglietto (cm l. 16,1), la cui parte superiore e è fatta da giunco intrecciato mentre il manico e è costituito da fibre di papiro arrotolate. Potrebbe essere identificato con lo strumento a percussione greco detto πλαταγή.

Editions of two papyri from the British Library, each of which belongs to well-known clusters: the receipts for merismos paid by Makaris son of Kerekos at Kerkesoucha Orous, and the receipts for diagraphon paid by Kosma son of Proou, probably at Saqqara.

This article presents the first edition of P.Ghent Inv. 48, a sixth-century Coptic letter from the collection of the Ghent University Library. The document references taxes and officials related to the tax collection, indicating a fiscal context. After analyzing the palaeography, linguistic features, prosopography, and historical context, the authors explore a possible connection between the text and the Dioscorus archive.

The testimonies to Psalm 1 from late antique Egypt reflect the enduring popularity of this text, though its specific uses often remain uncertain. As the opening psalm of a book (Psalms) widely employed in both liturgical and educational contexts, it is plausible that some of these testimonies were originally copied for such purposes. Furthermore, given its promise of “bearing fruit in due season,” it is not surprising that Psalm 1 was also invoked to secure divine protection, potentially holding special significance for pregnant women.