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Tebtunis textual material is scattered all over the world due to its complex excavation and acquisition history. There are several thousand fragments of unpublished papyri held by various museums that are being evaluated by scholars.
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Kingdom data is secondary, and she suggests that the earlier list goes back to the
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There are nine different copies of the book and they have various dates. Three copies are found on monuments and six more are found in the papyri of the second century AD found in the temple library in ancient
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Carlsberg papyri 1, and 1a, because of their completeness. They were written by the same scribe. Other manuscripts are mostly fragmentary.
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Der Himmel ĂĽber Esna. Eine
Fallstudie zur religiösen Astronomie in Ägypten am Beispiel der kosmologischen Decken- und Architravinschriften im Tempel von Esna.
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The world of the coffin texts: Proceedings of the symposium held on the occasion of the 100th birthday of
Adriaan de Buck, Leiden December 17 – 19, 1992.
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astronomical texts, also covering various mythological subjects. These texts focus on the cycles of the stars of the
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Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts.
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Writings of Early
Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts.
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There are substantial differences among all of these copies, indicating that the textual tradition of the
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published another relevant text from the tomb of the noblewoman
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The
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The Cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos (with chapters by Adriaan de Buck and Battiscombe Gunn).
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Ancient Egyptian Science, Volume 2: Calendars, clocks, and astronomy.
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Goddess Nut, supported by the god of the air Shu; the earth god
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Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars.
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