MagicInAncientEgypt.pdf

MAGIC IN

ANCIENT

EGYPT

Geraldine Pinch

British Museum Press

Published by British Museum Press

A division of British Museum Publications

46 Bloomsbury Street, London WCiB 3QQ

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record of this tide is available from

the British Library

ISBN O 7141 0979 I

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Printed in Great Britain by The Bath Press, Avon

COVER

Detail of faience plaque showing the protective lion-demon, Bes, c. ist century AD.

FRONTISPIECE and BACK COVER

One of the giant baboon statues in the area of the ruined temple of Thoth at Hermopolis,

I4th century BC. Hermopolis was famous as a centre of magical knowledge.