Dear Supporters, I am writing to you today with a progress update on Interlinear Magic. My commitments this semester will wrap up in two weeks, and I will be devoting 100% (instead of about 65%) of my time to putting the final touches on the book at that point. I aim to get the writing […]
Dear Supporters, I am writing today to announce the release of the first of several preview chapters of Interlinear Magic. You can download the PDF file of chapter 16, the “Egyptian Rite for Gathering Herbs” (PGM IV.2967-3006), from this page. This is one of the “shorter” chapters, so it lacks the commentary and vocabulary tools […]
The book will also feature some hieroglyphic images where they help explain certain concepts in the Greek texts. For example, the royal epithet αἰωνόβιος, “ever-living,” is the Ptolemaic equivalent of ankh-djet, shown below: