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Document Details : Title: Dreams in Bilingual Papyri from the Ptolemaic Period Author(s): KIDD, Stephen Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume: 48 Date: 2011 Pages: 113-130 DOI: 10.2143/BASP.48.0.3209293 Abstract : This article analyses a group of bilingual papyri from the Ptolemaic period concerning dreams and argues that these papyri show an interest in the language (and not just the 'message') of dreams. After relating this phenomenon to ancient linguistic dream interpretation, consideration is given to the preponderance of Demotic (not Greek) dream-books, and the suggestion is made that Egyptian may have been the preferred language of dream interpretation in Greco-Roman Egypt. |
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