简介:Theemploymentofboth"bipartite"and"tripartite"nominalsentencepatternscontainingdemonstrativesofthen-seriesinMiddleEgyptian~1showsacharacteristicsufficientlyconsistenttowarrantthesuggestionthatasemanticconstraintisoperative:VIZ.,thatthosesentencesareemployedwithNPsthatare[-PERSON],not[+PERSON].Therefore,sentencessuchas~*R’/it.i/ink(pw)nn/nf(3)/n3/nwareexcluded.Inasentencesuc(?)asbit.ipwn3"Thisismycharacter/conduct"~2,bit.i"mycharacter/conduct"is[-PERSON],whereasonecouldnotsay,e.g.,~*s3.ipwn3"Thisismyson."Accordingtothishypothesis,allMiddleEgyptian
简介:Intworecentstudiesofthededicationformulai(?)n.fmmnw.f,SayedTawfikandGüntherVittmannmentionveryfewexamplesinwhichitisemployedbyprivateindividuals.Tawfikstatesthattherareinstancesofthatkindarethoseinwhichthededicationismadetoone’sancestors,thoughthepassagehecitesfromtheautobiographyofChnumhotpeIIdoesnotconformtothatpattern.VittmannaddsCairoCG23019,anofferingtablewithtwoparallelformulaerecordingadedicationatthestaircasesofOsirisandWepwawetatAbydosinexchangeforfunerarywishesandofferings,andhealsoincludesanexamplefromMeir.
简介:ThetabletunderdiscussionwasdiscoveredatUrandwaspublishedinUET6/ⅡasNo.398.ThetabletconsistsofafragmentofthemiddleportionofalateBabyloniantext,andpreservestheendportionofamythinwhichtheprincipleactorsarethegodsMardukandUras,andtoalesserextent,thegodEnlil.Thetextisinpoeticformwiththelinesfallingintocouplets,inwhichthesecondlineofeachcoupletusuallyformsaparallel,orasupplementtothefirstone.Thetext,hasbeenbrieflyoutlinedbyC.J.GaddinUET6/Ⅱ,buthasnotbeenotherwisepublishedtotheauthor'sknowledge,exceptforbriefcomments.