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Die Universitätsbibliothek in Basel ist im Besitz einer kleinen Papyrussammlung von 63 Papyri aus ptolemäischer, römischer sowie spätantiker Zeit in überwiegend griechischer, aber auch hieratischer, lateinischer, koptischer und mittelpersischer Sprache. Der Freiwillige Museumsverein der Stadt Basel erwarb sie im Jahre 1899 für die Universitätsbibliothek und machte damit Basel zur einer der ersten Universitäten, die im Besitz einer Sammlung griechischer Papyri war. Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert nahm sich zwar der an der Universität Basel als Professor für Rechtsgeschichte lehrende Ernst Rabel (Basel 1906-1910) der Sammlung an und bearbeitete einige ausgewählte Texte. Doch er beließ es bei einer Auswahl von 26 Papyri, die er als „Papyrusurkunden der Öffentlichen Bibliothek der Universität zu Basel" während des 1. Weltkriegs im Jahre 1917 publizierte. Dieser Band bietet nun eine Reedition der bereits bekannten Stücke und eine Erstedition aller weiteren Basler Papyri.

Basel papyrus collection. --- Basler Papyrussammlung. --- Graeco-Roman Egypt. --- Griechisch-römisches Ägypten. --- Papyrologie. --- Papyrology. --- Sozialgeschichte. --- Universitätsbibliothek Basel --- Switzerland --- Basel papyrus collection. --- Graeco-Roman Egypt. --- Papyrology.

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Law, Byzantine --- -Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Roman law --- Sources --- Sources. --- -Sources

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The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment in the afterlife, as well as allowing them to join the entourages of different deities and participate in their worship. Spells referring to or enabling the deceased’s transformations occur in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. But it is not until the Graeco-Roman Period that we find entire compositions devoted to this theme. Two of the most important are P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162, both written in hieratic and dating to the 1st century AD. Both texts have been known to Egyptologists for more than a century, but neither is currently available in an up-to-date comprehensive edition. This book provides such an edition, including high-resolution images of the manuscripts, hieroglyphic transcriptions, translations, descriptions of their material aspects, studies of their owners, their titles, and their families, reconstructions of their context of usage, analyses of their orthography and grammar, and detailed commentaries on their contents.

HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt --- Egyptian religion. --- Graeco-Roman Period. --- papyri. --- priests. --- Magic, Greek --- Magic, Egyptian --- Incantations --- Charms --- Early works to 1800.

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Griechenland --- Römisches Reich --- (Produktform)Electronic book text --- (VLB-WN)9550 --- Social Status --- Prestige --- Graeco-Roman World --- Altertum --- antiquity

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The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts. After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.

Nabataeans --- Religion. --- -299 --- Nabateans --- Nabathites --- Religion --- Religion Others religions --- 299 --- Nabataeans - Religion. --- religion in the Graeco-Roman world --- pagan religions --- Christianity --- Judaism