Petitioning Osiris: The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt

Edward O. D. Love

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Petitioning Osiris

The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia in Context among the Letters to Gods from Egypt

Edward O. D. Love

Volume 11 in the series Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110985672

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About this book

Petitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus" and "Curse of Artemisia" – written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris – among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt. The textual traditions of the Letters to Gods, to the Dead, and Oracle Questions which evidence that ritual tradition of petitioning deities are contextualised among contemporary textual traditions, such as Letters and Petitions to Human Recipients, and Documents of Self-Dedication, and compared to later ritual traditions such as proactive and reactive curses without and with judicial features (so-called Prayers for Justice) in Greek and Coptic from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. As with all other Letters to Gods, the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia evidence not only the struggles and aspirations of their petitioners, but also the way in which they conceptualised that they could bring about desired outcomes in their lived experience by engaging divine agency through a reciprocal relationship of human-divine interaction. Petitioning Osiris therefore provides a starting point and springboard for readers interested in these, or comparable, textual and ritual traditions from the Ancient World.

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Edward O. D. Love, Würzburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
Part 1
1 Approaching the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and the Curse of Artemisia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Petitioning the Divine in Egypt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Part 2
3 The Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus (OCSP) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
4 Contextualising the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
5 Reading the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Part 3
6 The Curse of Artemisia (CA) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
7 Contextualising the Curse of Artemisia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
8 Reading the Curse of Artemisia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	565
Part 4
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Egyptologists, Papyrologists, Classicists and Classical Archaeologists, Historians of Religion (including “magic”)
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 690
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Human-Divine Interaction; Letters/Petitions to Gods; Demotic/(Ancient) Greek/Old Coptic; Curses/Cursing Practices

eBook

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110985672

Hardcover

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110997149