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Volume 11 | Miscellanea | Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals

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

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 | Pubblicato 12 Luglio 2017 | Lingua en, it, fr

Copyright © 2017 Sabina Crippa, Emanuele Marcello Ciampini. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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