Academic literature on the topic 'Ricci-plates'

Abstract THE second romance has come down to us in a Theban manuscript, which dates from the first half of the first century A.D. The fragments of it were bought from a dealer at Gizeh in 1904 by Borchardt and Rubensohn, and in 1905 by Seymour de Ricci. The larger part, which was acquired by Borchardt and Rubensohn, has gone to the University of Strasburg, where Spiegelberg discovered the subject of it. It has been published, as well as the pieces recovered by Ricci in W. Spiegelberg, Der Sagenkreis des Konigs Petubastis, nach dem Strassburger Demotischen Papyrus sowie den Wiener und Pariser Bruckstucken, 4to, Leipzig, 1910, So and 102 pages, and 22 plates in phototype. So far as it is possible to judge at present, it contains the Theban version of the theme dealt with in the first romance. The cuirass is replaced by the throne of Amon, probably, as I have said in the Introduction (p. cxxiii), by the sacred throne on which the priests placed the strangely shaped emblem, representing one of the types of the god of the Gr.-eco-Roman period. The personages that surround Pharaoh in the narrative are many of them the same as those of the previous story-Pakrur prince of the East, Pemu son of Eienharerou-Inaros prince of Heliopolis, Ankhhoru son of Pharaoh and his son Tak.hos, and Minnebmei prince of Elephantine; and yet, as Spiegelberg has justly observed (Der Sagenkreis, p. 8), years have passed since the affair of the cuirass, and new personages have arisen-Pesnufi, the son of Pakrur, and a young prophet of Horus of Buto who is not named anywhere, but whose auxiliaries are named generally as the Ameu. This name, which Spiegelberg translates literally as the Shepherds, and interprets as the Asiatics, affords the basis for a very ingenious comparison with the legend of Osarsuph, the priest of Heliopolis, the Moses of Jewish tradition, and his companions the shepherds or the Impure of Asia;