Egyptian Language in Greek Sources: Scripta Onomastica of Jan Quaegebeur

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This volume brings together the articles dating between 1969 and 1995 in which J. Quaegebeur studied Greek renderings of Egyptian names and words. Some of them are translated from Dutch into English, and all are updated by incorporating bibliographical references from 1970 until 2018 and comments by the editors. The articles deal with general methodology, names of gods (e.g. Eseremphis or Mestasytmis), people (e.g. double names, shortened anthroponyms and non-etymological writings), places (e.g. names of Theban temples) and common words (e.g. phritob). Though written several decades ago, Quaegebeur's work remains of fundamental importance for the study of the Egyptian language, including dialects before the rise of Coptic, onomastics and topography, popular religion and Greco-Roman Egypt in general. The indices also include references to Quaegebeur's study on the god of fate Shai (OLA 2), so that his work is now available for further study in a rich domain that has been neglected in Papyrology, Egyptology and Classical Studies the last 25 years. Contents Foreword Original Publications Abbreviations GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL ARTICLES I. Greek Transcriptions II. Pre-Coptic III. Pre-Old Coptic IV. De la préhistoire de l’écriture copte V. A New Method of Studying Ancient Egyptian Dialects VI. The Study of Egyptian Proper Names in Greek Transcription. Problems and Perspectives THEONYMY VII. Aménophis, nom royal et nom divin. Questions méthodologiques VIII. Eseremphis. Une Isis de haute époque en vogue dans l’Égypte gréco-romaine IX. Une dédicace grecque au dieu égyptien Mestasytmis de la part de son synode X. Les quatre dieux Min XI. Le théonyme Senephthys XII. Teëphibis, dieu oraculaire? XIII. Tithoes, dieu oraculaire? XIV. Thot-Hermès, le dieu le plus grand! ANTHROPONYMY XV. Dialektische Namensformen und die Lokalisierung von Urkunden XVI. Greco-Egyptian Double Names as a Feature of a Bi-Cultural Society. The Case Ψοσνευς ὁ καὶ Τριάδελφος XVII. Aspects de l’onomastique démotique: formes abrégées et graphies phonétiques XVIII. Sénénouphis, nom de femme et nom d’homme XIX. Considérations sur le nom propre égyptien Teëphthaphônukhos XX. À propos de Teilouteilou, nom magique, et de Têroutêrou, nom de femme XXI. Le nom propre Tsonesontis TOPONYMY XXII. À propos de l’identification de la «Kadytis» d’Hérodote avec Gaza XXIII. Documents grecs et géographie historique. Le mendésien XXIV. Note sur l’Herêsieion d’Antinoé XXV. Ibion, Isieion and Tharesieion in Two Oslo Papyri XXVI. Les appellations grecques des temples de Karnak XXVII. Les noms de trois temples funéraires thébains en écriture démotique XXVIII. La justice à la porte des temples et le toponyme Premit COMMON WORDS XXIX. The Greek Rendering of Short Egyptian Funerary Texts XXX. La désignation (PꜢ-)ḥry-tp: phritob XXXI. Phritob comme titre d’un haut fonctionnaire ptolémaïque Index