Excerpt from Meroitic Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Napata to Philae and MiscellaneousAs to the miscellaneous inscriptions, nearly all of which are now published for the first time, Dr. Budge gave me permission to re-publish the two stelae in the British Museum; Sir G. Maspero, with his accustomed liberality, gave leave to publish the altar in Cairo; Prof. Golenischeff most kindly contributed photographs Of three out of four stelae in his collection (now acquired for the Government Museum at Moscow), with permission to publish hand-copies; M. Benedite gave me a cast of a unique inscribed statuette, the only Meroitic monument in the Louvre collection; Dr. Rubensohn sent to the Berlin Museum for my examination a fragment in the Hildesheim Museum. Prof. Von dissing, Dr. Borohardt, M. Daressy, Dr. W. F. Hume, Prof. J unker, Prof. Spiegelberg, Prof. Steindorff, Mr. Weigall, and Prof. Wiedemann have all given me valuable information, chieﬂy indeed of a negative character, regarding the Meroitic contents of collections in Europe and similar matters. To all these our thanks are due. To the staff of the Berlin Museum (and more particularly Prof. Schafer, whose friendly generosity throughout has been unsurpassable,) the debt is so varied that it is difficult to express adequately my sense of obligation and admiration of their attitude to research. The collections acquired by lavish expenditure of their own labour and time and of public money, so far as they cannot make immediate use of them in their own publications, are at the disposal of any scholar of whatever nationality; in smoothing his path to them and removing every difficulty, these men, at once scholars and servants Of the entire scholarly public, consider that they are but doing their duty. While my enquiries have everywhere been met with most friendly courtesy, I may be pardoned for emphasizing the warmth of the response at the greatest repository of Meroitic material, on which really depended the failure or success of the whole undertaking.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Meroitic Inscriptions, Vol. 2: Napata to Philae and Miscellaneous (Classic Reprint)

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Francis Llewellyn Griffith

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An excerpt from the beginning of the PREFACE The MS dating from the third century A D which is here edited for the first time in a single whole has long been known to scholars Its subject matter magic and medicine is not destitute of interest It is closely connected with the Greek magical papyri from Egypt of the same period but being written in demotic naturally does not reproduce the Greek hymns which are so important a feature of those papyri The influence of purely Greek mythology also is here by comparison very slight hardly greater than that of the Alexandrian Judaism which has supplied a number of names of Hellenistic form to the demotic magician Mithraism has apparently contributed nothing at all Christianity probably only a deformed reference to the Father in Heaven On the other hand as might have been expected Egyptian mythology has an overwhelmingly strong position and whereas the Greek papyri scarcely go beyond Hermes Anubis and the Osiris legend the demotic magician introduces Khons Amon and many other Egyptian gods Also whereas the former assume a knowledge of the modus operandi in divination by the lamp and bowl the latter describes it in great detail But the papyrus is especially interesting for the language in which it is written It is probably the latest Egyptian MS which we possess written in the demotic script and it presents us with the form of the language as written almost as spoken by the pagans at the time when the Greek alphabet was being adopted by the Christians It must not be forgotten too that this is the document which contributed perhaps more than any other to the decipherment of demotic partly through its numerous Greek glosses We have therefore thought that a complete edition with special reference to its philological importance would be useful

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