King Semea and the Scarab and a Prayer to the Sun
GEMF 55/PGM III is a papyrus roll from Thebes of fourth-century CE date and among other things it preserves two interesting invocations that creatively combine Greek and Egyptian liturgical and ritual forms. The first text takes the form of a hexametrical hymn inscribed kata stichon by the scribe, w...
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Kernos
2026
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| Shrnutí: | GEMF 55/PGM III is a papyrus roll from Thebes of fourth-century CE date and among other things it preserves two interesting invocations that creatively combine Greek and Egyptian liturgical and ritual forms. The first text takes the form of a hexametrical hymn inscribed kata stichon by the scribe, whereas the second invokes the Sun by his many names, calls itself a prayer (euchē) and is composed in prose. This article discusses the different rhetorical and syntactical patterns these invocations display and how these patterns allow us two opportunities: (i) to reconstruct the original, uncorrupted forms of these two invocations; and (ii) to learn from their later, corrupted forms how they were transmitted and changed over time in Roman Egypt. |
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