TY - JOUR
AU - Griffith, F. LL.
AB - F. Li..GRIFFITH:T h e Old Coptic Horoscope, &c.The Old Coptic Horoscope of theByF . LL.[ X X X V I I I . Band. 1900.]STOBART71Collection.GRIFFITH.Hierzu Tafel 1—ΠΙ.T h e r e is a very rare class of pagan texts in which the native Egyptian languageis written out with full vocalization by the aid of Greek letters.Owing to the wide use of Greek as the official language of Egypt during theGraeco-Roman period, and to the presence of a considerable foreign population forwhom the native language and writing were unfamiliar, as early as the 2ndcentury resort was occasionally made to the Greek alphabet for the spelling ofEgyptian words, and even of whole texts. For the natives, too, this methodhad its advantage: the vocalization of their words could thereby be expressed.So far as we know, all the native writing of Christian Egypt was on this plan,and we have also a few examples of its employment even while paganism wasstill supreme. These are especially connected with magic and astrology, pursuits in which the natives and the Greeks would consult each other's methodsand would wish to record the ipsissima verba of the soothsayer.Only two considerable texts, or series of texts, of this kind are 
TI - The Old Coptic Horoscope of the STOBART Collection
JF - Zs für Ägypt. Sprache und Altertumskunde
DO - 10.1524/zaes.1900.38.jg.71
DA - 1900-12-01
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SP - 71
EP - 85
VL - 38
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -