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Royal Mysteries in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Martin P. Nilsson
Martin P. Nilsson
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University of Lund
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Extract

A small scrap of papyrus from Antinoopolis has been edited and commented on by C. H. Roberts and treated in a very learned paper by A. Delatte. I print the text with a few remarks due to these scholars.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1957 , pp. 65 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1957

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References

1 Roberts, C. H., The Antinoopolis Papyri I, 1950, No. 18, pp. 39 ffGoogle Scholar.

2 Delatte, A., Le papyrus d'Antinoopolis relatif aux mystères. Bull, de la classe de lettres de l'Académie de Belgique, xxxvii, 1952, pp. 194 ffGoogle Scholar.

3 These monuments are discussed and their Alexandrian origin proved by Picard, Ch., L'éleusinisme à Rome au temps de la dynastie julio-claudienne. Rev. des études latines, xxviii, 1950, p. 77Google Scholar, and especially La patère d'Aquileia et l'éleusinisme à Rome aux debuts de l'époque impériale, L'Antiquité classiqûe, xx, 1951, pp. 351 ff.Google Scholar, with figures of the monuments.

4 See my Gesch. d. griech. Religion, II, p. 90. Cf. Athen., v, p.203 C: μόνος γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς ὁ χρυσορόας καλοὐμενος Νεῖλος μετὰ τροɸῶν αɸθόνων καὶ χρυσὸν ἀκίβδηλον καταɸέρει ἀκινδύνως γεωργούμενον, ὡς πᾶσιν ἐξαρκεῖν ἀνθρώποις δίκην Τριπτολέμου πεμπόμενον εἰς πᾶσα νγῆν.