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Per una lettura della cultura funeraria dell'Egitto greco-romano: la tradizione dei papiri del Libro dei Morti
Lucarelli, Rita
2008
Abstract
In the third and fourth centuries AD in Egypt belief in the old local religion and production of papyri in Egyptian language continued as a form of religious resistance: in this historical and cultural frame, the tradition of funerary papyri of the Book of the Dead, fashionable since the second half of the second millennium BC., continues to spread both in hieroglyphic writing and in its cursive variants (hieratic and demotic). On the ground of some funerary papyri connected with the tradition of the Book of the Dead and its developments it can be surmised that for the funerary culture of Greek-roman Egypt one should not speak only of syncretism, but also of persistence of the local culture. This phenomenon turns out to be productive and not only reproductive, in the sense that within the corpus of the textual tradition of earlier ages new elements derived from the specific religiosity of that precise historical context are accepted and worked out.
Series
Polymnia: Studi di filologia classica
9
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Languages
it
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