Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries
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Ancient Egypt
animal cults.
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Baboon and Falcon galleries
bronze temple furniture
Bryan Emery
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dedications to Imhotep
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Graffiti
Greek graffito
Greek Hermetic literature
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North Saqqara
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Sacred Animal Necropolis
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- ISBN 9780856982057
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This volume features all the graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society by Bryan Emery between 1966 and 1971. The graffiti includes dedications to the god Imhotep with an important historical content, and masons' marks which show some of the construction history of the galleries. There is also a Greek graffito listing the contents of dreams or visions, and a series of dedications on bronze temple furniture which mention a hitherto unknown god. Jars with hieroglyphic signs shed light on one of the main characters found in the Greek Hermetic literature, and a selection of ostraca give insights into the management of the animal cults.
