Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.

Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.

List of Figures List of Plates List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Egyptological Bibliography of Mark Smith BETSY M. BRYAN Art-Making in Texts and Contexts MARIA CANNATA Titbits from Tatters: Bodl. MS. Egypt. d. 19(P) MICHEL CHAUVEAUL'Agneau revisite ou la revelation d'un crime de guerre ignore MARK DEPAUW A New Date for the "Amarna" Temple Plan in el-Sheikh Said Based on Some Newly Read Inscriptions DIDIER DEVAUCHELLE and GHISLAINE WIDMER Une transcription en demotique de deux formules duRituel des offrandes (O. dem. DelM 2-1) FRANCOIS GAUDARD On the "Immortality" of the God Seth FRANCOIS RENE HERBIN La stele Caire JE 72300 FRIEDHELM HOFFMANN Astronomische und astrologische Kleinigkeiten VII: Die Inschrift zu Tages- und Nachtlangen aus Tanis RICHARD JASNOW and KARL-THEODOR ZAUZICH Another Praise of the Goddess Ait (O. Sommerhausen 1) JANET H. JOHNSON Compound Nouns, Especially Abstracts, in Demotic MPAY KEMBOLY Grappling with the Notion of Evil in Ancient Egypt HOLGER KOCKELMANN Sunshine for the Dead: On the Role and Representation of Light in the Vignette of Book of the Dead Spell 154 and Other Funerary Sources from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Egypt ANDREA KUCHAREK A Hieratic Tablet from TT 196 Reexamined NIKOLAOS LAZARIDIS Hyperbole in Demotic Wisdom CHRISTIAN LEITZ Das Menu-Lied: Eine Anleitung zum Bierbrauen fur Hathor in 18 Schritten ALEXANDRA von LIEVEN Of Choachytes and Saints: Demotic Documentary Texts as Sources for Religious Practices CARY J. MARTIN A Third-Century Demotic Land Lease (P. BM EA 10858) MARTINA MINAS-NERPEL Offering theij.t-Knife to Haroeris in the Temple of Isis at Shanhur LUIGI PRADA Divining Grammar and Defining Foes: Linguistic Patterns of Demotic Divinatory Handbooks (with Special Reference to P. Cairo CG 50138-41) and a Note on the Euphemistic Use ofxft "Enemy" JOACHIM Friedrich QUACK Eine weise Stimme der Autoritat (Papyrus Amherst Eg. XLIII.1 rt.): Mit Anhangen uber Abrechnungen (Papyrus Amherst Eg. XLIII.1 vs. und XLIII.2) ROBERT K. RITNER Pantheistic Figures in Ancient Egypt KIM RYHOLT An Egyptian Narrative from Karanis (P. Mich. inv. 5641a) R. S. SIMPSON Retrograde Writing in Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions MARTIN ANDREAS STADLER Thot und der Skarabaus (Papyrus Wien D 6318) GUNTER VITTMANN Grain for Seth and His Divine Companions in Dakhleh (Ostracon Mut 21/4) SVEN P. VLEEMING A Priestly Letter of Recommendation (P. CtYBR inv. 4628) ALEKSANDRA WARDA Statue of Strategos Tryphon from Dendera (SEG LVIII 1823) Abstracts Subject Index Index of Names Index of Sources Index of Selected Egyptian Words in Transliteration Discussed Plates