In Terms of Fate: a survey of the indigenous Egyptian contribution to ancient astrology in light of Papyrus CtYBR inv. 1132(B)
ID: | 12368 |
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Dokumententyp: | Artikel in Zeitschrift |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 1996 |
Veröffentlicht: |
Buske, Helmut,
Hamburg
(1996)
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Zeitschrift: | Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 23 |
ISBN: | 3875481453 |
Schlagwörter: | ASTROLOGIE -> Religion im weitesten Sinn P.CTYBR 1132B -> Papyrus DEMOTISCH -> Sprachbezeichnung als allgemeine Eigenschaft RÖMISCHE ZEIT -> Epochenbezeichnungen |
Seiten: | 11-46 |
Verfügbarkeit: | Lokaler Bestand vorhanden |
Signatur: | Z-SAK |
Letzte Aktualisierung: | 03.05.2002 |
Eintrag-Nr(alt): | 12631 |
If not the originator of horoscopic astrology, Egypt developed the craft into an art, having a significant impact on the Roman world and the Roman elite. This article gathers the native Egyptian astrological documentation, and using the Demotic nomenclature reconstructs the missing title and text of P. CtYBR inv. 1132(B), a list of Terms which must have once constituted a section of an Egyptian astrologer's handbook. Several systems of Terms used for casting personal horoscopes are known from Ptolemy and other ancient authorities, the most widely accepted being the sequence labeled 'Egyptian'. As the only ancient manuscript preserving a table of Terms, P. CtYBR inv. 1132(B) is similar to, but deviates from the Egyptian sequence. With the reconstruction of the missing column of the manuscript from data in the first two preserved columns, there appears a consistent echeloned sequence of planets similar to the system of Critodemus. Thus P. CtYBR is the Egyptian system modified by that of Critodemus for mnemonic purposes for native Egyptians.