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[ikhet_sekhmet]

The EEF Guide to Internet Resources for Ancient Egyptian Texts

Paleolithic Notation Bibliography: "...over 400 academic articles, books, dissertations, and related publications (excluding book reviews and non-academic material) that discuss or evaluate the theory that some Paleolithic (primarily European Upper Paleolithic) artifacts contain non-representational graphic marks that served as tallies, calendars, astronomical notations, numerals, or other mnemonic devices."

The Brooklyn Museum's Mut Precinct stuff - reports, photos, dig diary, etc.

Mexican Saints (including La Santa Muerte), National Geographic May 2010

Sigmund Freud's collection of antiquities includes a ripping Syrian Ishtar.

Finally, here's Sekhmet being a supportive Mrs Ptah. Aw.

Comments

[lemon-cupcake.livejournal.com]

Finally, here's Sekhmet being a supportive Mrs Ptah. Aw.

She's really very nice, Mrs. Ptah.

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

When she's not in one of her Moods.

[lemon-cupcake.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, you might want to get a hold of Mythes et légendes du Delta: D'après le papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.84, by Dimitri Meeks. Great material in there, stuff I've never seen anywhere; I'm going to have to update a few entries in the encyclopedia.

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's gonna be a tough one - no copies in Australian libraries, costs $$$ secondhand. Nonetheless I shall persevere! (Say, that isn't the medical papyrus with the terrific Bes Pantheos, is it?)

You wouldn't happen to have Piankoff and Rambora's "Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations" volume III lying around there, would you?

[lemon-cupcake.livejournal.com]

Can't believe there's NO libraries in Australia with this. I've been looking at it in the New York Public Library.

And no, this isn't the medical papyrus. It's very much in the same genre as the Jumilhac Papyrus, if you've seen that one. It's a list of towns and important myths and rituals associated with them. It's lacunose in places, but unlike, say, the Book of Thoth, which was a real tease, you can actually read most of it. And the amount of notes and commentary is just ridiculous, Meeks really goes to town trying to eke out every last bit of information the text can provide.

And it's got crazy stuff in it, things that are just wrong: the title of one section is "La dame du balsamaire et le prolapsus rectal". I mean, stop already. Or how about "Seth violeur, la naissance de Thot et le singe foetus d'Imet"?

[lemon-cupcake.livejournal.com]

P.S. No, I don't have Piankoff and Rambora either! Wish I did!

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, it's the ancient equivalent of Google with Safe Search switched off!

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

Luckily I can get that puppy at the National Library the next time I'm down in Canberra.