Books by Jacco Dieleman
Priests, Tongues, and Rites. The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE)
This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magi... more This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.
De Wereld in Evenwicht. Goden en Mensen in het Oude Egypte. [The World in Balance. Gods and Men in Ancient Egypt – an introduction to ancient Egyptian religion]
This book offers a survey of ancient Egyptian religion - in Dutch.
Edited work by Jacco Dieleman
This collection of 15 essays throws light on the large and oft-neglected corpus of Osiris liturgi... more This collection of 15 essays throws light on the large and oft-neglected corpus of Osiris liturgies. These texts preserve the incantations and instructions for rituals performed in the temple cult of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and regeneration. Although composed for use in state-sponsored temples, most copies have been found in private burials of the Late and Greco-Roman periods, inscribed on the walls of tombs and sarcophagi or on papyrus scrolls. The preserved copies offer thus not only precious information about the cult of Osiris, but also about transformations in equipping the dead with funerary texts in these later periods of pharaonic history. The essays of this volume, in English, German, and French, explore this interface of temple and tomb. They offer reflections on methodology, showcase new approaches, and examine the scribal culture that produced these documents. Well-known compositions such as the Sakhu or Glorification Rituals, the Embalming Ritual, and the Mouth Opening Ritual are discussed as well as new inscriptions and papyri that remain unedited to this day. Together these essays add to our understanding of the production and use of funerary texts, old and new, in late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt.
UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Papers by Jacco Dieleman
Guide to the study of ancient magic, 2019
This chapter offers an overview of the magical papyri from Roman Egypt, preserved in both Greek a... more This chapter offers an overview of the magical papyri from Roman Egypt, preserved in both Greek and Demotic.
Guide to the study of ancient magic, 2019
This chapter discusses the nature of Egyptian ritual, how it was perceived, and who performed it.
JARCE, 2017
Edition of a textual amulet held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (MMA 26.3.225). Fo... more Edition of a textual amulet held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (MMA 26.3.225). Found in Theban Tomb 313 as a folded and tied packet, the papyrus sheet is inscribed with an apotropaic incantation and drawing. The incantation invokes “The Entities of Khemenu,” that is, the eight members of the Ogdoad, and orders them to offer protection to the owner of the amulet. The drawing is only partly preserved, but depicted originally two symmetrically arranged crocodiles attacking a figure positioned between them.
Egyptology has a long history of excavating, collecting, classifying, and studying ancient artefa... more Egyptology has a long history of excavating, collecting, classifying, and studying ancient artefacts from Egypt. This scholarly endeavour of almost 200 years has resulted in an impressive accumulation of information of many different types. Much of this information is still relevant to scholars of today, and publications of the early 20th century or older are still used and quoted. The situation is quite different in the sciences. To scientists, articles written a decade earlier are often completely outdated, and it puzzles them that Egyptologists still make grateful use of books that were writ-ten in the 19th century. That is, however, the burden of being an Egyptologist: one has to survey a publication record of more than a century in order to be up-to-date on a given topic.
Liturgical Texts for Osiris and the Deceased in Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt (Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion 14; Harrassowitz ; Wiesbaden), 2015
The explicit aim of the colloquium was to bring together scholars who were at the time preparing ... more The explicit aim of the colloquium was to bring together scholars who were at the time preparing critical editions of unpublished Egyptian liturgical papyri of Ptolemaic and Roman date, and to discuss the nature and function of these manuscripts in their primary or secondary contexts of temple and tomb. Thus the organizer hoped not only to shine light on a large yet often neglected text corpus, but also to encourage reflection on the interface of Egyptian temple cult and private funerary practices in the period from the fourth century BCE to the first century CE. To maintain momentum, Burkhard Backes organized a follow-up meeting under the title "Liturgische Texte für Osiris und Verstorbene im spätzeitlichen Ägypten. Beiträge zur schriftlichen Verwendung funerärer Rituale." This three-day conference, held in Freudenstadt, Germany, from July 18 to 21, 2012, was more ambitious in its format and objectives. Whereas the ISAW colloquium focused on the papyrus witnesses as a distinct object category, presenters at the Freudenstadt conference also touched upon text witnesses inscribed on the walls of temples, tombs, and sarcophagi. By broadening the source basis, the intersection of textual and material culture, as well as the relation between private and institutional practices, could be addressed from a wider range of perspectives, as per the stated aim.
Burkhard Backes and Jacco Dieleman eds., Liturgical Texts for Osiris and the Deceased in Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt. Proceedings of the colloquiums at New York (ISAW), 6 May 2011, and Freudenstadt, 18–21 July 2012. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion 14; Harrassowitz ; Wiesbaden, 2015
The article discusses the textual structure of the so-called Artemis Liturgical Papyrus, a manusc... more The article discusses the textual structure of the so-called Artemis Liturgical Papyrus, a manuscript of the late Ptolemaic or early Roman period inscribed with the script of a burial ritual for a woman named Artemis, daughter of Herais. The manuscript offers several unique features. First, the incantations are written in Classical Egyptian and the hieratic script, whereas the instructions to the incantations (paratextual notations) are in the Demotic language and script. Second, although in essence a liturgical manuscript, the Demotic paratextual notations frame it as a procedure text. Third, the incantations are all excerpts from liturgical texts known from various other manuscripts. To account for the manuscript’s makeshift character, the concept of ‘scribal bricolage’ is introduced.
Sandra Luisa Lippert and Martin Andreas Stadler (eds.), Gehilfe des Thoth. Festschrift für Karl Theodor Zauzich zu seinem 75. Geburtstag (Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden 2014) 29-42., 2014
This article offers an edition of two papyrus copies of a type of Demotic funerary texts best kno... more This article offers an edition of two papyrus copies of a type of Demotic funerary texts best known as ‘Demotic documents for breathing’. Although small in size and offering merely two more versions of a formulaic funerary text, the two papyri deserve our closest attention. There are good reasons to assume that they are the product of the very same scribe. Thanks to their good state of preservation, they offer thus the opportunity to study in some detail how a scribe in Roman Thebes went about preparing such documents.
JARCE 50 (2014) 221-32., 2014
This article offers the edition of two columns of a so-called diagonal star table that are inscri... more This article offers the edition of two columns of a so-called diagonal star table that are inscribed on a wooden batten (LACMA M80.202.500) that was once affixed to the underside of the lid of a Middle Kingdom coffin. The two columns follow the Kenmet table format, bringing the number of known artifacts preserving Kenmet tables up to eleven. The item is without provenance, but, like the other Kenmet tables, is likely from the site of Assiut and dates to the early Middle Kingdom.
Joachim Friedrich Quack (ed.), Ägyptische Rituale der griechisch-römischen Zeit. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 6 (Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2014) 171-83., 2014
This article offers a preliminary survey of an unpublished manuscript, dating to the late Ptolema... more This article offers a preliminary survey of an unpublished manuscript, dating to the late Ptolemaic or early Roman period, that preserves a unique collection of liturgical texts for Osirian rituals adapted and inscribed for the burial of a woman named Artemis, born of Herais. I term the manuscript ‘the Artemis Liturgical Papyrus’ after its owner. Apart from the liturgical texts themselves, the manuscript is of particular interest for its inclusion of rubrics in Demotic serving as instructions for use of the incantations, which are otherwise all written in hieratic. The Greek names of the deceased and her mother are also consistently written with Demotic characters.
De Egyptische Alexanderroman
Diederik Burgersdijk, Wouter Henkelman, Willemijn Waal (eds.), Alexander en Darius. De Macedoniër in de Spiegel van het Nabije Oosten (Uitgeverij Verloren: Hilversum 2013) 167-82., 2013
Christina Riggs (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt (Oxford University Press; Oxford 2012) 337-61, 2012
This chapter surveys magical and divinatory practices in Roman Egypt.
Papyrus Wenen aeos 3871. ©Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
In 1975 verrijkte het Louvre Museum in Parijs haar Egyptische collectie met een intrigerende vond... more In 1975 verrijkte het Louvre Museum in Parijs haar Egyptische collectie met een intrigerende vondst (afb. 1). In een eenvoudige aardewerken pot bevonden zich een opgerold loden plaatje, beschreven in het Grieks, en een beeldje van klei in de vorm van een naakte, vastgebonden vrouw met dertien naalden in haar lichaam. Het loden plaatje meet elf bij elf centimeter en het beeldje is niet meer dan negen centimeter hoog. De tekst is een magische formule om Ptolemais, dochter van Aias en Horigenes, te dwingen verliefd te worden op Sarapammon, zoon van Area. Volgens de verkoper was de pot met inhoud in Midden Egypte gevonden; afgaand op de Griekse tekst, waarschijnlijk op een antiek grafveld. De vorm van de pot en het handschrift dateren de objecten in de Romeinse periode, in de tweede of derde eeuw na Christus. Wie huivert niet bij het zien van het vrouwenfiguurtje (afb. 2)? De kwetsbaarheid van haar naakte lichaam contrasteert met de agressie van de dertien naalden. Haar zorgvuldig gemodelleerde haar en halsketting accentueren haar naaktheid. Ze geven haar lichaam zelfs een zekere erotische Afb. 1: Ensemble van kleifiguurtje in de vorm van een gebonden vrouw met dertien naalden (Louvre E 27145 A; 9x4x4 cm), loden tablet beschreven met Griekse vervloekingspreuk (Louvre E 27145 B = Suppl. Mag. I.47; 11x11 cm) en aardewerken pot waarin deze twee zich bevonden (Louvre E 27145 C; 14x6 cm).
Alexandra Verbovsek, Burkhard Backes, Catherine Jones (eds.), Methodik und Didaktik in der Ägyptologie. Herausforderungen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Paradigmenwechsels in den Altertumswissenschaften (Ägyptologie und Kulturwissenschaft IV; Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munich 2011) 125-32., 2011
Gedruckt mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Ägyptologischen Forschungsstätte für Kulturwissenscha... more Gedruckt mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Ägyptologischen Forschungsstätte für Kulturwissenschaft (ÄFKW) der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, der Exzellenzinitiative der LMU München (Mentoring-Programm für exzellente Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen) und des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes e.V. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Alle Rechte, auch die des auszugsweisen Nachdrucks, der fotomechanischen Wiedergabe und der Übersetzung, vorbehalten. Dies betrifft auch die Vervielfältigung und Übertragung einzelner Textabschnitte, Zeichnungen oder Bilder durch alle Verfahren wie Speicherung und Übertragung auf Papier, Transparente, Filme, Bänder, Platten und andere Medien, soweit es nicht § § 53 und 54 UrhG ausdrücklich gestatten.
Shaul Shaked, Yuval Harari, Gideon Bohak (eds.), Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 15; Brill Academic Publishers; Leiden 2011) 85-117., 2011
Hermann Knuf, Christian Leitz, Daniel von Recklinghausen (eds.), Honi soit qui mal y pense. Studien zum pharaonischen, griechisch-römischen und spätantiken Ägypten zu Ehren von Heinz-Josef Thissen (OLA 194; Peeters Publishers; Leuven 2010) 511-17., 2010
The ongoing excavations at the Deir el-Bachit monastery at Dra Abu el-Naga on the Luxor West Bank... more The ongoing excavations at the Deir el-Bachit monastery at Dra Abu el-Naga on the Luxor West Bank, conducted by a joint mission of the German Institute of Archaeology (DAT) and the University of Munich since 2001, have already yielded a number of important results. 1 Remains of the refectory, dormitory, and storage facilities have been uncovered, together with parts of the adjacent cemetery. The results inform us on patterns of habitation and economic development on the Theban west bank in the late antique and early medieval period. As the monastery is built on top of, and incorporates, the forecourt of a pharaonic tomb (K 93.11), the excavations also shine additional light on the adapta tion and integration of the pharaonic 'City of the Dead' into the Christian landscape of western The bes in late antiquity.
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