The Dreaded Kallah Cthulhu ([info]al_qhadhulu) wrote in [info]koine,
@ 2007-05-27 17:05:00
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Greetings,

Grandma, here. Re-entry college student, just completed my first course of Latin. :)
Neither of the Ag schools near me (California State University, Chico and Butte Community College) offer Greek. In fact, CSUC offers neither Latin nor Greek despite the fact that just 50 years ago, all farmers' children in the area, got Latin in high school. But, I digress.

I'm hoping this is not a rude question:
I have posted here the text from a Greek magical papyrus in the British Museum. I have the English translation. Hoping one of you may have seen it, previously, and knows of a pronunciation guide an illiterate (me) could use. I tried going through each word, letter by letter. Ridiculous notion.


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[info]jcrawf
2007-06-04 01:48 am UTC (link)
The main problem is that the image is hard to read. Otherwise I'd be happy to try and transliterate. ^^

Eirene humôn (Peace be with you)

John

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[info]al_qhadhulu
2007-06-04 02:53 am UTC (link)
Thank you!
I have made one pass at transliteration, already, here.
As I later learned, there are many word fragments not obviously indicated by Goodwin and the elipses refer to "barbarous names" of spirits and daemons being invoked along with "Osoronophris" (the Hellenic conception of how to spell Osiris, apparently). A much better copy of the papyrus fragment, itself, and typed Greek exists in three books on the subject by three modern authors, one of which I already own - it was a gift I had not had a chance to closely examine. Doh! I have requested permission to post in LJ.
When the other copies arrive, I hope to post those, as well, if only briefly for the purpose of getting a guide to pronunciation.

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