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Egyptian Language in
Greek Sources
Scripta Onomastica of
Jan Quaegebeur
edited by
WILLY CLARYSSE and ANA I. BLASCO TORRES
PEETERS
EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE IN GREEK SOURCES
ORIENTALIA LOVANIENSIA
ANALECTA
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EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE IN
GREEK SOURCES
Scripta Onomastica of
Jan Quaegebeur
edited by
WILLY CLARYSSE and ANA I. BLASCO TORRES
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI
GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL ARTICLES
I. Greek Transcriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. Pre-Coptic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
III. Pre-Old Coptic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
IV. De la préhistoire de l’écriture copte . . . . . . . . . . 15
V. A New Method of Studying Ancient Egyptian Dialects . . . . 25
VI. T he Study of Egyptian Proper Names in Greek Transcription.
Problems and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
THEONYMY
VII. A ménophis, nom royal et nom divin. Questions méthodologiques 51
VIII. E seremphis. Une Isis de haute époque en vogue dans l’Égypte
gréco-romaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
IX. U ne dédicace grecque au dieu égyptien Mestasytmis de la part de
son synode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
X.(cid:2)Les quatre dieux Min . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
XI.(cid:2)Le théonyme Senephthys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
XII. Teëphibis, dieu oraculaire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
XIII. Tithoes, dieu oraculaire? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
XIV. Thot-Hermès, le dieu le plus grand! . . . . . . . . . . 141
ANTHROPONYMY
XV. Dialektische Namensformen und die Lokalisierung von Urkunden 163
XVI. G reco-Egyptian Double Names as a Feature of a Bi-Cultural Society.
The Case Ψοσνευς ὁ καὶ Τριάδελφος . . . . . . . . . 167
XVII. A spects de l’onomastique démotique: formes abrégées et graphies
phonétiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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XVIII. Sénénouphis, nom de femme et nom d’homme . . . . . 191
XIX. C onsidérations sur le nom propre égyptien Teëphthaphônukhos 199
XX. À propos de Teilouteilou, nom magique, et de Têroutêrou, nom
de femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
XXI. Le nom propre Tsonesontis . . . . . . . . . . . 223
TOPONYMY
XXII. À propos de l’identification de la «Kadytis» d’Hérodote avec
Gaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
XXIII. Documents grecs et géographie historique. Le mendésien . . 263
XXIV. Note sur l’Herêsieion d’Antinoé . . . . . . . . . . 271
XXV. Ibion, Isieion and Tharesieion in Two Oslo Papyri . . . . 277
XXVI. Les appellations grecques des temples de Karnak . . . . 283
XXVII. L es noms de trois temples funéraires thébains en écriture
démotique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
XXVIII. La justice à la porte des temples et le toponyme Premit . . 307
COMMON WORDS
XXIX. The Greek Rendering of Short Egyptian Funerary Texts . . 321
XXX. La désignation(cid:2)(PꜢ-)ḥry-tp:(cid:2)phritob . . . . . . . . . 333
XXXI. Phritob comme titre d’un haut fonctionnaire ptolémaïque . . 339
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
FOREWORD
In the second half of his book Le(cid:2)dieu(cid:2)égyptien(cid:2)Shaï (1975) J. Quaegebeur
discussed in detail the appearance of the god Shai in personal names, paying
great attention to the variants Ψαις/Ψοις in Greek transcriptions (pp. 245-262).
There he followed the methods elaborated by his master J. Vergote. In the
period 1969-1995 he wrote about thirty articles concerning Egyptian names
and words in Greek texts, though gradually his interest shifted to more general
problems of cultural history, with a major project of Egyptian religion in Greek
sources, and to archaeology, with the excavation of the temple of Senhur.
Here we have brought together and partly updated the articles in which Greek
renderings of Egyptian sounds play a major role. When these are put in
chronological order it becomes clear that in the 90’s onomastics and vocabu-
lary studies were just one way of tackling more general problems of cultural
history. As a result of this changing perspective, three articles (Art. XXV,
XXVIII and XXX) have only been partly included. In fact, since the end of the
20th century, linguistic studies of how the Egyptian language sounded before it
was written by means of the Greek alphabet in Coptic are far less popular and
also less systematic than in the preceding generation, when Vergote announced
his study De(cid:2)oplossing(cid:2)van(cid:2)een(cid:2)gewichtig(cid:2)probleem:(cid:2)de(cid:2)vocalisatie(cid:2)van(cid:2)de(cid:2)Egyp-
tische(cid:2)werkwoordvormen (= La(cid:2)solution(cid:2)d’un(cid:2)problème(cid:2)important:(cid:2)la(cid:2)vocalisa-
tion(cid:2)des(cid:2)formes(cid:2)verbales(cid:2)égyptiennes) (Brussels 1960). It is our hope that the
present publication will reinvigorate the field, which is far from exhausted,
by putting at the disposal of scholars the penetrating studies of a beloved
colleague, who died now nearly 25 years ago at the age of 52. Since that time,
his name has been entered in M.L. Bierbrier, Who(cid:2)Was(cid:2)Who(cid:2)in(cid:2)Egyptology,
London 2012 (p. 449) and in the Nationaal(cid:2)Biografisch(cid:2)Woordenboek 21, Brus-
sels 2014, cols. 905-910. His personal library is now in the Musée Champollion
at Figeac (France) and his archives in the collection of the KULeuven (Univer-
siteitsarchief PU Quaegebeur).
We have kept the texts as they were written in the original articles, but
added the pagination of the originals in the margin and also some notes of our
own (these are in a different font size from the original text and appear
between square brackets), mainly bringing up-to-date bibliographical refer-
ences. References to articles of Quaegebeur included in the volume have been
adapted by changing them into Art. + Latin number. Some books and articles
quoted many times in different articles have been systematically abbreviated
(see the list of abbreviations, on p. XI-XII). The reference system may be differ-
ent from one article to another, but it remains uniform within each article. In a
VIII FOREWORD
few articles we have adapted cumbersome papyrological references to the
conventions of the Checklist [https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/
papyrus/texts/clist.html]). A typical instance are the personal names of female
scholars, which are in some articles fully written out, to the surprise of the
younger colleague in our team.
Willy CLARYSSE
Ana I. BLASCO TORRES
ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS
I. Greek(cid:2)Transcriptions, in: A.S. ATIYA (ed.), The(cid:2)Coptic(cid:2)Encyclopaedia,
vol. 8, New York 1991, pp. 141-142.
II. Pre-Coptic, in: A.S. ATIYA (ed.), The(cid:2)Coptic(cid:2)Encyclopaedia, vol. 8,
New York 1991, pp. 188-190.
III. Pre-Old(cid:2)Coptic, in: A.S. ATIYA (ed.), The(cid:2)Coptic(cid:2)Encyclopaedia, vol. 8,
New York 1991, pp. 190-191.
IV. De(cid:2)la(cid:2)préhistoire(cid:2)de(cid:2)l’écriture(cid:2)copte, OLP(cid:2)13 (1982), pp. 125-136.
V. A(cid:2)New(cid:2)Method(cid:2)of(cid:2)Studying(cid:2)Ancient(cid:2)Egyptian(cid:2)Dialects, in:(cid:2)Handelingen(cid:2)
van(cid:2)het(cid:2)XXVIIe(cid:2)Vlaams(cid:2)Filologencongres, Brussel 1969, pp. 162-166
[Translated into English by W. CLARYSSE].
VI. The(cid:2)Study(cid:2)of(cid:2)Egyptian(cid:2)Proper(cid:2)Names(cid:2)in(cid:2)Greek(cid:2)Transcription.(cid:2)Problems(cid:2)
and(cid:2)Perspectives, Onoma 18 (1974), pp. 403-420.
VII. Aménophis,(cid:2)nom(cid:2)royal(cid:2)et(cid:2)nom(cid:2)divin.(cid:2)Questions(cid:2)méthodologiques, RdÉ 37
(1986), pp. 97-106.
VIII. Eseremphis.(cid:2)Une(cid:2)Isis(cid:2)de(cid:2)haute(cid:2)époque(cid:2)en(cid:2)vogue(cid:2)dans(cid:2)l’Égypte(cid:2)gréco-(cid:2)
romaine, in: G. GRIMM - H. HEINEN - E. WINTER (eds.), Das(cid:2)römisch-(cid:2)
byzantinische(cid:2)Ägypten. Akten(cid:2)des(cid:2)internationalen(cid:2)Symposions(cid:2)26.-(cid:2)
30.(cid:2)September(cid:2)1978(cid:2)in(cid:2)Trier (Aegyptiaca Treverensia. Trierer Studien
zum griechisch-römischen Ägypten, 2), Mainz am Rhein 1983, pp. 67-75.
IX. Une(cid:2)dédicace(cid:2)grecque(cid:2)au(cid:2)dieu(cid:2)égyptien(cid:2)Mestasytmis(cid:2)de(cid:2)la(cid:2)part(cid:2)de(cid:2)son(cid:2)
synode, BIFAO(cid:2)73 (1973), pp. 41-60 [In collaboration with G. WAGNER].
X.(cid:2)Les(cid:2)quatre(cid:2)dieux(cid:2)Min,(cid:2)in: U. VERHOEVEN - E. GRAEFE (eds.), Religion(cid:2)
und(cid:2)Philosophie.(cid:2)Festgabe(cid:2)für(cid:2)Philippe(cid:2)Derchain (OLA 39), Leuven
1991, pp. 253-268.
XI.(cid:2)Le(cid:2)théonyme(cid:2)Senephthys, OLP(cid:2)22 (1991), pp. 111-122.
XII. Teëphibis,(cid:2)dieu(cid:2)oraculaire?, Enchoria 5 (1975), pp. 19-24.
XIII. Tithoes,(cid:2)dieu(cid:2)oraculaire?, Enchoria 7 (1977), pp. 103-108.
XIV. Thot-Hermès,(cid:2)le(cid:2)dieu(cid:2)le(cid:2)plus(cid:2)grand!, in: Hommages(cid:2)à(cid:2)François(cid:2)Daumas,
vol. 2, Montpellier 1986, pp. 525-544.
XV. Dialektische(cid:2)Namensformen(cid:2)und(cid:2)die(cid:2)Lokalisierung(cid:2)von(cid:2)Urkunden, ZPE 4
(1969), pp. 183-185.
XVI. Greco-Egyptian(cid:2)Double(cid:2)Names(cid:2)as(cid:2)a(cid:2)Feature(cid:2)of(cid:2)a(cid:2)Bi-Cultural(cid:2)Society.(cid:2)
The(cid:2)Case(cid:2)Ψοσνευς(cid:2)ὁ(cid:2)καὶ(cid:2)Τριάδελφος,(cid:2)in: J. JOHNSON (ed.), Life(cid:2)in(cid:2)a(cid:2)Multi-(cid:2)
Cultural(cid:2)Society:(cid:2)Egypt(cid:2)from(cid:2)Cambyses(cid:2)to(cid:2)Constantine(cid:2)and(cid:2)Beyond
(Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation 51), Chicago 1992, pp. 265-272.
XVII. Aspects(cid:2)de(cid:2)l’onomastique(cid:2)démotique:(cid:2)formes(cid:2)abrégées(cid:2)et(cid:2)graphies(cid:2)pho-
nétiques, in: S.P. VLEEMING (ed.), Aspects(cid:2)of(cid:2)Demotic(cid:2)Lexicography. Acts(cid:2)
of(cid:2)the(cid:2)2nd(cid:2)Intern.(cid:2)Conference(cid:2)for(cid:2)Demotic(cid:2)Studies.(cid:2)Leiden,(cid:2)19-21(cid:2)Septem-
ber(cid:2)1984 (Studia Demotica 1), Leuven 1987, pp. 75-84.
