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020			_a1-900188-10-4
040			_aNVIC
100			_aIain Gardner _eeditor
245	1		_aKellis Literary Texts: _bVolume 1
260			_aOxford: _bOxbow Books, _c1996
300			_axvii, 188 p., _b24 pl.; _c30 cm
440			_aDakhleh Oasis Project Monographs; _v4
440			_aOxbow Monographs; _v69
520			_aAncient Kellis (the modern village of Ismant el-Kharab) lies some four hundred miles to the south-west of Cairo in Egypt's western desert, and its excavation is part of the Dakleh Oasis Project. Foremost among the finds are numerous texts of the late Roman period on papyrus, ostraca and wooden boards. This volume publishes a first selection of Manichaean and other religious texts found so far at Kellis with descriptions, notes, transcriptions, translations and photographs. The introductory chapter discusses the Coptic Manichaean texts as literary and religious products with particular reference to their close links to the codices said to have come from Medinet Madi; the commentaries discuss details of codicology, identification and content. There are 16 Coptic texts, 4 Syriac and 4 Greek.
650			_aAncient Egypt _xLiterature _vTexts _vCoptic _vSyriac _vGreek _zDakhleh oasis _zEgypt
700			_aS. Clackson
700			_aM. Franzmann
700			_aK. A. Worp
902			_aDOP 4
942			_2ddc _cCR
999			_c9905 _d9905