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By Sibylle Meyer
"The highbrow history of historic Egypt" – as soon as wrote Jan Assmann – "can infrequently be stated to became a part of our cultural reminiscence. it's a topic of fascination, now not of understanding." This fascination begun while old Greek travelers all started traveling Egypt, and keeps unto this present day, in most cases as a scholarly look for the oldest roots of our cultural reminiscence. Jan Assmann's remarkable educational success absolutely represents the one most vital contribution to the trendy realizing of historical Egypt, achieving a long way past the bounds of Egyptology right. The essays during this quantity, all written through his neighbors and disciples, mirror the large impression of his oeuvre at the scholarly international, encompassing not just Egyptological and similar issues, but in addition significant points of Judaeo-Christian identification comparable to monotheism and the historic occasions surrounding the lately found Diaspora temple of Yahu at the island of Elephantine.
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69, Szene 22, S. 31, Szene 8. 33 Zahlreiche Details erinnern an die Bilder in den Privatgräbern von Amarna; Strudwick, op. , S. 60. a. zwischen TT 254 und dem kurz vor Amarna dekorierten Kleingrab TT 181, das in unmittelbarer Nähe liegt, erkennen. zwei gräberensembles in khokha–süd 29 In TT 253 hat die Ausrichtung zum Tal, anders als in einem älteren Parallelfall, TT 56, nur einen Einfluss auf die Dekoration der Halle genommen. Die Verteilung von Begräbniszug, links und Grabherr im Opfersegment, rechts der Passage blieb bestehen (Abb.
19 Die Scheintür befindet sich im Großgrab auf der Westwand des Grabes und zwei gräberensembles in khokha–süd 25 Abb. 3. TT 343 (Normalfall) und TT 253 das Dekorationselement, das die Drehung nicht mitgemacht hat, in ein neues Umfeld eingepasst werden muss, oder dass das Umfeld der neuen Situation angepasst wird. Dies ist bei TT 253 im rechten Hallenflügel der Fall (in Abb. 3 eingekreist). Leider lassen sich die dort abgebildeten Personen aufgrund der Zerstörung der Beischriften nicht oder nur teilweise identifizieren.
Abfassungsort unbekannt (Rom? Karthago? Ägypten? vgl. 279). Die Beziehung zwischen Ammian und Asclepius hat als erster, so scheint es, Garth Fowden (1987, 52-57) bemerkt. 24. —Zum Kontext und Hintergrund des Zitats vgl. die Einleitung bei Nock/Festugière sowie G. , 77 f. : “Temples and priests”. 23 Das letzte Kolon behauptet eine dauerhafte, wesentliche, sakrale Qualität des ganzen Landes Ägypten. 2 rpe m-p-kosmos Eine koptische Fassung des griechischen Originals, aus dem auch der lateinische Asclepius übersetzt ist, hat sich als Excerpt in einem Codex aus Nag Hammadi (um die Mitte des 4.