The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island

By (author) Eugene Cruz-Uribe

Book cover: The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island

Extent: 338, 338 pages

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2016)

ISBN: 9781937040475

8.46 x 10.98 inches

Price: $99.00

In stock

PDF (Published)

(January 2016)

ISBN: 9781937040482

Price: $25.00

This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. New editions of 101 of the graffiti that were published by F. Griffith in his Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the Dodecaschoenus (1937) are published here. These reedited texts were mainly chosen because new drawings provided significant new readings from those made by Griffith, or they helped elucidate the scope and meaning of some of the new graffiti by placement. The volume also includes an essay interpreting the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae temple during the last centuries of worship of the goddess Isis, mainly by Nubian priests and pilgrims.

  • By (author) Eugene Cruz-Uribe