Lorenzo Guardiano

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Astronomical Representations Between Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt and Their Influence on the Western Image of the Cosmos digital

di Lorenzo Guardiano

Anno: 2024

Ptolemaic astronomy was born in Ptolemaic Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. from the en counter between Pharaonic and Greek astronomy, the latter carrying elements of Babylonian science. The new astronomy turned out to be a mixture of elements of different origins which found the astronomical ceiling of the tradition of New Kingdom pharaohs as the support for its representation...

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Hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Aga Khan Necropolis at Aswan digital

di Lorenzo Guardiano, Patrizia Piacentini

Anno: 2024

This essay presents for the first time the edition of inscribed material from the excavation of the Aga Khan necropolis in West Aswan by the Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan (EIMAWA), directed by Patrizia Piacentini and Abd El-Moneim Said. The inscriptions are found on different types of materials (fragments of funerary beds, stelae, cartonnages and coffins) found in tombs AGH014, AGH026, AGH032, AGH033, AGH034, and AGH036...

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A Weep of Stars: A Possible Reference to the Falling Stars in the So-Called ‘Dramatic Text’ of Abydos digital

di Lorenzo Guardiano

Anno: 2022

A sentence of the ‘Dramatic Text’ of Abydos says, about the stars, that «their bones fall to earth when souls fall to earth» and then «they become fish». The connection between bones, souls and tears that fall from the sky as fish has not yet been explained...

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