Categorizing reptiles in Ancient Egypt: an overview of methods

IF 0.7 4区 社会学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropozoologica Pub Date : 2020-06-26 DOI:10.5252/anthropozoologica2020v55a9
R. Andreozzi
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ABSTRACT This work aims to present an overview of the methods that can be used to understand the categorization of reptiles in ancient Egyptian culture. Firstly, the widespread practice of using determinatives (classifiers) is here applied to the case of a fragment from the temple of Djedkara, where the word ḥfȝ.w is written with the classifier of the lizard. It is suggested that ḥfȝ.w has been not be used to indicate a snake here, but rather a similar reptile. The second part makes comparison between lists, which were a way to organize and summarize knowledge. Two texts are here presented in order to better understand the possible clusters and hierarchization of snakes: the Brooklyn papyrus 47.218.48 and .85 (Traité d'ophiologie) edited by Sauneron, which contained in its first part a list of snakes with their description, and the section about snakes in the Theriaká of Nicander of Colophone, which permits a cultural comparison with the Greek world regarding the organizing principles of the reptile world. Finally, a statistical study then presented which analyses Egyptian words meaning “snakes” (jm.j-tȝ, fnṯ, sȝ-tȝ, ḥfȝ.w, ḏdf.t), as found across different time periods and genres of text, which attempts to establish the specific field of use of each word.
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古埃及爬行动物分类方法综述
摘要这项工作旨在概述可用于理解古埃及文化中爬行动物分类的方法。首先,使用限定词(分类器)的广泛实践在这里被应用于Djedkara神庙的碎片的情况,其中单词ḥfȝ.w是用蜥蜴的分类器写的。建议ḥfȝ.w在这里并没有被用来表示蛇,而是一种类似的爬行动物。第二部分对列表进行比较,列表是组织和总结知识的一种方式。为了更好地理解蛇的可能集群和层次结构,这里提供了两个文本:Sauneron编辑的布鲁克林纸莎草47.218.48和.85(Traitéd‘aetrologie),其中第一部分包含蛇的列表及其描述,以及Colophone的Nicander的Theriaká中关于蛇的部分,这允许在爬行动物世界的组织原则方面与希腊世界进行文化比较。最后,进行了一项统计研究,分析了埃及单词中“蛇”的含义(jm.j-tȝ,fnṯ, sȝ-tȝ;,ḥfȝ.w,ḏdf.t),正如在不同的时间段和文本类型中发现的那样,它试图建立每个单词的特定使用领域。
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