Egyptian Language in Greek Sources: Scripta Onomastica of Jan Quaegebeur

This volume brings together the articles dating between 1969 and 1995 in

which J. Quaegebeur studied Greek renderings of Egyptian names and words.

Some of them are translated from Dutch into English, and all are updated

by incorporating bibliographical references from 1970 until 2018 and

comments by the editors. The articles deal with general methodology, names

of gods (e.g. Eseremphis or Mestasytmis), people (e.g. double names,

shortened anthroponyms and non-etymological writings), places (e.g. names

of Theban temples) and common words (e.g. phritob). Though written

several decades ago, Quaegebeur’s work remains of fundamental importance

for the study of the Egyptian language, including dialects before the rise

of Coptic, onomastics and topography, popular religion and Greco-Roman

Egypt in general. The indices also include references to Quaegebeur’s

study on the god of fate Shai (OLA 2), so that his work is now available

for further study in a rich domain that has been neglected in Papyrology,

Egyptology and Classical Studies the last 25 years.