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VACATION: Take a break!
MY NILE TRIP THANKSGIVING 1999:
Arrived Cairo and stayed 2 days at the Marriot. Wandered through Giza (on
Horse and Donkey) and Memphis and Saqarra.
Took a sleeper train south to Luxor
and stayed at the resort (fancy prior estate of president?).
Self toured the Luxor and Karnak
grounds for 2 days and also joined guided tours and saw the Karnak evening
light show. A must see!
Met a cruise ship at Luxor and continued
south to Aswan/Elephantine Island area stopping daily for trips to Esna, Edfu,
VOK, VOQ, Ramesseum, Colossus of Memnon, Komombo, etc.
At Elephantine area took a bus to
airport and Air Egypt (scary) to Sudan to see the relocated Abu Simbel Mountain
monument. (It was VERY HOT).
Eventually completed the same route
in reverse and took two days at the library of the museum in Cairo for my
own studies. (Ancient Math and Science).
*Wish I had time to see Dendara,
Deir el Bahari, Abydos.
*VERY IMPORTANT-Call your credit
card companies and speak with security staff to inform them of your upcoming
trip. If not, they may cancel your cards for "suspicious activity."
I spent 3 hours and hundreds of dollars trying to connect to toll free lines
from Egypt to the US. Ultimately I had to travel to an American Express office
to access cash.
VALENCAY: (AE) papyrus
See WILBOUR [B_100].
(as per S. Katary, [B_100])
P. Valencay I
Dynasty XI?
Mentions assessment, “Chief
Assessing Master”.
Complaint by Mayor of Elephantine
(Meron) to:
Chief Taxing-Master
(Menma’renakhte)
VANDIER: (Author); papyrus
Jacques
Vandier 1904-
See JUMILHAC.
[B_134,rvw]
CATNYP# OBKQ+ 87-1971, “Le papyrus Vandier”,
Cairo,
1985. Tales, History and criticism.
VARIE: collections
T.Varie: Tavolette lignee e cerate da varie collezioni
T.Varie 1. Accordo fra le parti: (Greek)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0243
VARSOV.: See VARSOVIENSIS
VARSOVIENSES: (Greek) papyri
(as per E. G. Turner) P. Vars. =
Papyri Varsovienses, ed. G. Manteuffel,
Warsaw, 1935.
P.Vars.: Papyri Varsovienses
P.Vars. 5r.: (Greek)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0216
“Kritische Bemerkungen zum Papyrus
Varsoviensis 10.”
1961.
Not found at CATNYP or BOBCAT.
Item filed with index for [B_520] for no reason
VATICAN: (papyri and collections) within Library of
NO
CATNYP
(as per A.H. Gardiner) seek P. Vatican.
[W_076,rvw] WATSON# 529V45 G86, "Les
Papyrus hieratiques et hieroglyphiques du Museo gregoriano egizio / Anne
Gasse." Vatican
City, 1993.
Der Zauberpapyrus des Vatikan.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/math.html
[Index of Manuscript
Materials; Excellent!]
http://home.att.net/~harald/msshort.html
P.Vat.Aphrod.: I Papiri Vaticani di Aphrodito
P.Vat.Aphrod. 1. Lease of land:
(Greek; AD 598; Aphrodito, Aphroditopolis)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0217
[Y_012,rvw]
SUMMIT# PA3994.F4 N6
“Il papiro vaticana greco 11.1 [Phaborinou Peri phug_es] 2. Registri fondiari della Marmarica.”
Vatican, 1931.
See VATICANUS
VATICANUS: (Greek) codex
(as per E. G. Turner) A
Greek codex.
A QUINTERNIUS; ten leaves
with twenty plates. ~400 BCE.
See also RYLANDS; [B_093]
See below; Latin codex VATICANUS.
VATICANUS: (Latin) codex
The Greek and
Hebrew manuscripts, are kept in several “Codex”: The “Codex
Vaticanus”, the oldest, from the 4th century AC, in the Vatican Library, Rome.
In the British Museum of London are kept the “Codex Sinaiticus” of the 4th
century AC, and the “Codex Alexandrinus” of the 5th century. In Cambridge,
the “Codex Bezae” of the 5th century AC [CE].
http://religion-cults.com/Judaism/escript.htm
See UHN: p. 243: Vatican library, codex BORGHESIANO ARABO 95;
math content!.
VECTIGALIBUS: (Greek) archive of
See Lugduno-Batava; [B_447=O_012,NO IMG,8.5]
VEDAS:
(Sanskrit) masterpieces
See: ASTRONOMY; BUDDHA; INDIAN MATHEMATICS; LALITAVISTARA; ZODIAC.
[B_559,8.5’s]
“The astronomical code of the Rgveda
/ Subhash, Kak [2000, Professor at Louisiana State University, b. 1947-].”
p. 3: Note the variable 27 in astronomical zodiac considerations; see
Keskinto!
p. 8: Astronomy compared to Vedic Altars design.
p. 8: See 12 day agnicavana ritual
p. 9: agnicavana ritual; 2 identical areas described, 1 square and 1 round!
p. 10: Astrologically ligned altars
p. 11: “ritual culminates in rebirth”; cycles
p. 14: 28 [27] naksatras
p. 15: Indian Zodiac, 21 signs?
p. 16: Vedanga Jyotisa [a person] takes a yuga of 5 years=1830 sidereal days.
p. 32-3: similarities in other ancient creation of Gods - myths:
Varuna, Ouranos [Greek]
Tammuz [Sumerian and Babylonian]
Adon [Canaan and Cyprus]
Osiris [Egypt]
Telepinus-Sharruma [Hittite]
Each of these Gods born of the Earth Mother known to that region: Aditi, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Sun Goddess of Arinna, Kybele (Attis). Each of these Gods often shown as the “night sky” and often relate to constellation of Orion.
p. 34: Image of “churning of the ocean.”
p. 35: “The heliacal rising of Sirius was extremely important to the Egyptians. During one period of their history [Old Kingdom], the heliacal rising of Sirius occurred at the same time as the summer solstice and, by coincidence, at the same time as the annual Nile flood.”
p. 35: “The sun spends about 13 1/3 days in each Naksatra.”
p. 35: “Each day was marked by the naksatra near which the Moon was seen.”
p. 35: 27 Naksatras!; see Keskinto. See list of all 27 by/within “Taittiriya.”
p. 35: 27 Naksatras mentioned by Satapatha Brahmana
p. 37: Key to chronology is determination of date of Bharata War. Unresolved.
p. 45: Surviving fire altars at Kalibangan; Mohenjo-Daro; mandalas in Northern Afghanistan-Dashli palace.
p. 46: Image of Mohenjo-Daro; Lothal
p. 47: Image of Dashli palace [~2000 BCE]
p. 60: Bharata war
p. 61: circle of 27 constellations.
p. 62-3: Bhatara war, within range: 950 BCE-2449 BCE
p. 63: Aihole inscription refers to Kaliyuga era
p. 76: Image of Bird Altar
p. 77: Images of Altars
p. 78: Quantity of bricks, astrological considerations.
p. 79-80: main units described by Baudhayana
1 small pada=10 angulas
1 pradesa=12 angulas [sexagesimal system modifier?]
1 pada=15 angulas
1 isa= 188 angulas
1 aksa= 104 angulas
1 yuga=86 angulas
1 prakrama= 2 padas = 30 angulas [a cubit? Or Nbj?]
1 aratni=2 pradesas=24 angulas [a cubit?]
1 vyayama=4 aratnis=96 angulas [a fathom?]
1 vyama=5 aratnis=120 angulas
1 garhapatya=1 ahavaniya=1 daksinagni=1 square purusa=~4 sq. meters
1 [linear] perusa=~ 2 meters
p. 81: “Indra slays his father”, relates to precession of equinoxes.
p. 84: Intercalation
p. 85: 95 year Yajnavalkya period
p. 86: later 2850 [30 x 95] years, Romakasiddhanta period.
p. 86: 10,800,000 units [1000 x 360 x 30]
p. 87: Solar year
p. 110: Jupiter=Brhaspati, Guru, Angiras, [yellow]
p. 110: Saturn=Sanaiscara, Sauri, Manda, Pangu, Patangi, [black]
p. 111: Visnu=Mercury; 3 steps of Visnu=3 synodic Mercury periods of 118 days each.
p. 134: Nonuniform motion of the Sun
p. 135: two halves of year are 181 and either 184 or 185 days, compare Eudoxus.
p. 138: Image of Suns orbit as an Altar.
p. 139: Earth central to Sun’s orbit
p. 140: Image of altar with Earth off center within Sun’s orbit.
p. 142: Image of solstices and aphelion (94.5 M. miles) and perihelion (91.5 M.)
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/trade1.htm
VERCELLI: (Latin) codex
Latin CODEX VERCELLENSIS, Old English manuscript written in the late 10th century. It contains texts of the poem
Andreas, two poems by Cynewulf, The Dream of the Rood, an “Address of the Saved Soul to the Body,” and a fragment of a homiletic poem, as well as 23 prose homilies and a prose life of St. Guthlac, the Vercelli Guthlac. The book is so named because it was found in the cathedral library at Vercelli, northwestern Italy, in 1822. Marginalia in the manuscript indicate that the manuscript was in English use in the 11th century. It was probably taken to Italy by one of the numerous Anglo-Saxon pilgrims on the way to Rome.
See also BERLIN; [B_037,IGNR]
CATNYP# *OBH (Munchner agyptologische
Studien, 18)
Berlin, 1969, by Barta Winfried.
VESTIS MILITARIS: codex
See COLUMBIA.
VIENNA: (demotic) papyrus
[B_057,8.5's,PIXr07.1]
CATNYP# *OBKQ+ (Vienna Omina Papyrus. Vienna demotic papyrus
on eclipse- and lunar-omina), "A Vienna demotic papyrus on eclipse- and
lunar-omina", Providence, Brown University Press, 1959, by Parker,
Richard Anthony.
[W_017=B_057]
I was granted permission to photograph this restricted
text at the Watson Library.
The
following notes are from a cursory review:
Parker
worked on this text with Otto Neugebauer
of Brown University.
The names
of Hebrew lunar months are Aramaic in origin
and taken from Babylon.
Review the
223 month lunar Saros cycle.
The Vienna P. is an
adjusted 200-350 CE copy of a Babylonian original
circa 600 BCE.
The Vienna P. was
brought to Vienna in 1880 by Archduke Rainer.
Hebrews (Ivree)
are mentioned as a people of another territory or a people without a land.
See tr.
"the death of a star shall occur" = eclipse.
Search
keywords: Mythus; Traumdeutung; Volten;
Darius
I; Munich Codex; Enuma
Anu Enlil; Udjeharresnet.
[W_018,rvw] WATSON# 533.6 V67 (in the Watson
stacks). "Papyrus Erzherhog Rainer : Fuhrer durch die Ausstellung
[im K. K. Osterreichischen Museum fur Kunst und Industrie, zu ehren des IX.
Internationalen Orientalisten - Congresses in London], Wien, 1892.
See also SAMMLUNG.
[B_096,rvw] CATNYP#
*OBKQ+ 77-689 Folge 13
"Medizinische Rezepte
und Verwandtes / herausgegeben von Hermann Harrauer und Pieter J. Sijpesteijn,
Wien, 1981.
Medicinal
recipes of AE, Greece and Rome.
(as per Y. Koenig)
Onerisleg..., 36 et Papyrus Vienne 19, 3. ?
(as per D. Meeks) seek P.
Dem. Vienna 26.
(as per E. G. Turner) P. Mitteilungen Wien, see MPER.
Guidebook, §2(i): Byzantine empire and Western world, before c 1700
Codex Clementino see Vienna Codex
VIGILANUS: (Latin) codex
See UHN: p. 579: Codex Vigilanus (Latin; 976 CE, Northern Spain) now at the Escurial Library, Madrid. Shows Hindu Arabic numerals.
VIKINGS: sound like a fun bunch
In the middle ages, the VIKINGS settled in Greenland but contact with their colonies was lost at the beginning of the 15th century. In 1720, by
which time the Danes had long become Protestants, there arose considerable concern that the missing colonists, if they existed, would be Roman Catholics and in need of conversion. An expedition was sent to Greenland but found only ruined houses and Eskimos.
Did the VIKINGS perish or intermarry?
An analysis of Greenlander's mitochondrial DNA shows only genetic signatures typical of the new world, and it indicates their unalloyed descent from Eskimos of Alaska.
"It looks bad for the VIKINGS," said Dr. Peter Forster of the University of Cambridge, a co- author of the study.
VINDOB.: See VINDOBONENSIS
See LUGDUNO-BATAVA;
VINDOB; BOSWINKEL; WIENER
See Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava:
Volume 2 (Einige Wiener Papyri) by E. Boswinkel; P. Vindob.
Boswinkel; Leiden 1942.
Volume 11 by P. J. Sijpesteijn.
BOBST# PA3301 .P34 vol.1/3 [bound with warren item abv!]
“Einige Wiener Papyri : (P Vindob. Boswinkel) bearbeseit von E.
Boswinkel.”
Lugduni Batavorum, 1942.
Studies by Ernst Boswinkel include Greek Papyri.
See
plates.
See also
[B_448; B_497-500]
“Einige Wiener Papyri (P Vindob. Worp.) bearbeseit von K. A. Worp.”
Amsterdam, 1972.
See also
[B_448; B_497-500]
“Einige Wiener [Greek] Papyri (P Vindob. Sijpesteijn.) von P. J.
Sijpesteijn.”
Lugduni Batavorum, 1963.
See also
[B_448; B_497-500]
“Funfunddreissig [thirty-five] Wiener [Greek] Papyri (P Vindob. Tandem.) von P. J. Sijpesteijn, K. A. Worp.”
Lugduni Batavorum, 1963.
See also
[B_448; B_497-500]
See PAMPREPIOS; [B_521=O_075,rvw]; APIS
Ancient:
Vos, R.L.: Apis Embalming Ritual: P. Vindob. 3873. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 50) Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Orientalistiek, 1993. 423pp.
[O_076,rvw]
BOBCAT# BL2450.A65 V67 1993
“The Apis
Embalming Ritual: P. Vindob.
3873 / by R. L. Vos.”
Leuven, 1993.
NO CATNYP.
[O_077,rvw]
BOBCAT# PA3308 .B5 1999
“Das Fragmentum Bucolium Vindobonense (P. Vindob. Rainer 29801) : Einleitung, Text und Kommentar / Hans Bernsdorff.”
Gottingen, 1999.
NO CATNYP.
VINDOBONENSIS: (Greek and hieroglyph)
papyri
AKA P. VINDOB.; See also VINDOB.
See APIS; VIENNA;
SAMMLUNG
See MDAIK 1999 for
images of Vindob D 6500; D 6502; Tafel 55.
(as per K. Weeks) P. Vindob 3873 from
200 BCE describes in detail the embalming of APIS.
This is
housed at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
[W_077,rvw] WATSON#
534.7 V92, "The Apis embalming ritual : P. Vindob. 3873 /
by R. L. Vos." Leuven, 1993.
[W_078,rvw] WATSON#
272.1 D73 Q, "Seelengartlen : ...vindob. 2706: photomechanische ..von
Friedrich Dornhoffer", Frankfurt, 1907.
Includes
references to P. Chester Beatty XVI and,
P. Vindobonensis 29456 and
29828.
See Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava:
Volume 2 (Einige Wiener
Papyri) by E. Boswinkel; P. Vindob. Boswinkel; Leiden 1942.
Volume 11 by P. J.
Sijpesteijn;
P. Vindob. Sijpesteijn; Leiden,
1963.
P.Vind.Bosw.: Einige Wiener Papyri
P.Vind.Bosw. 1. Complaint of priests: (Greek; AD 87; Arsinoite)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0218
Math content.
P.Vind.Pher.: Eine Steuerliste aus Pheretnuis
P.Vind.Pher. 1.: (Greek; AD 196; Pheretnuis)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0219
Math content; fractions. Accounts
P.Vind.Sal.: Einige Wiener Papyri
P.Vind.Sal. 2. Protocol (?): (Greek)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0220
P.Vind.Sijp.: Einige Wiener Papyri
P.Vind.Sijp. 1. Zwei Konnossemente: (Greek 338 bce; Hermopolite)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0221
P.Vind.Tand.: Fünfunddreissig Wiener Papyri
P.Vind.Tand. 1. Copy of a letter from Ptolemaios Philadelphos
(Greek; from Antinoopolis?)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0222
P.Vind.Worp: Einige Wiener
Papyri
P.Vind.Worp 1. Copy of court proceedings:
(Greek; AD 91-96; Arsinoite)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0223
VINDOLANDA: (Greek) tablets
T.Vindol.: The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets
T.Vindol. 2.155.: (Greek; AD 97-102; from Vindolanda)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=T%2eVindol%2e+2%2e155
VITRUVIUS: architect (Roman)
Circa 50 BCE
See De Architectura at
Rare; NYPL.
[B_277,NO COPY,RARE] CATNYP#
KB1953 (Vitruvius Pollio. M. Vitrvvii…De Architectvra) “M. Vitrvvii…De
Architectvra Libri Decem…Nvnc Primvm In Germania…excusi…Adiecimvs Etiam Propter
argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Ivlii Frontini De Aqvaedvctibvs Vrbis Romae,
libellum. Item ex libro Nicolai Cvsani Card. De Staticis Experimentis,
fragmentum…”
Pub: Argentorati, In
Officina Knoblochiana per Georgivm Machaeropioeum, 1543.
With numerous detailed analyses of Roman works, sciences and construction details including the stone dovetail joint I saw at the stones at Kom-Ombo in Egypt.
VLEEM: (Greek and Demotic) ostraca and documents
The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri:
O.Vleem.: Ostraka Varia.
Tax Receipts and Legal Documents on Demotic, Greek and Greek-Demotic Ostraka,
Cheifly of the Early Ptolemaic Period, From Various Collections
O Vleem 1A: (Greek; ~135 bce; from ELEPHANTINE)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0046
VOYNICH: (Encrypted/Alchemical?/Bilingual?/Medieval) Manuscript
(as per Bob Zoller) Investigate!
Appearence;
Size; 7 inches by 10 inches, 170-200 Pages long.
Age; Speculated to have been written in the 13th Century
Language; Unknown Cipher, no known examples any other place in the world. Complicating the matter, it is believed that there are two distinct languages present in the manuscript.
Condition; The tome is crafted of Vellum, and written in colored inks, the manuscript itself is in fairly good condition, with a few pages being damaged, etc.
General Discription; The manuscript is an enigma. The book is written in an unknown script and is illustratated with images of naked people frolicking in fountains, and in different parts have illustrations of plants that are also unknown to anybody.
Image at site below appears written to be read in a mirror.
[See Leonardo da Vinci’s works.]
http://inky.library.yale.edu/voy/Z3724835.jpg
It looks strangely like a mix of Archaic English, Latin and Greek.
Odd circular designs and inscriptions!
Images filed with [B_408]
Pursue any lead on the horticulture aspects.
Medicinal instuctions / potions / herbal medicine?
Not just fat but seemingly PREGNANT women.
Are any plants shown, known?
http://www.google.com/search?q=voynich%2Bpapyrus
[B_408,rvw] CATNYP# JFF 81-711
“The VOYNICH Manuscript : an elegant enigma / M. E. D’Imperio.”
National Security Agency, 1978.
[B_409,rvw] CATNYP# N-10 1334
“Thirty-five manuscripts : including the St. Blasien psalter, the Llangattock hours, the Gotha missal, the Roger Bacon (VOYNICH) cipher ms.”
NY, H. P. Kraus, 1962
Purchased by Rudolph II in the 16th Century
Possibly including ciphered gynecology
Discuss with Bob Zoller.
See WIRED magazine, 2004 article on this late debunking.
[B_596,SIBL, HOUSE, 8.5, sm. img]
CATNYP# JBM-93-105
“WIRED.”
San Francisco, California, 1993-2004
VULTURES: (Mesopotamian/Sumerian) Stele of
Within the holdings of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
AKA Stele of Eannatum [of Lagash]
AKA Vulture Stele
AKA Victory Stele of Eannatum
[~2525 BCE]
The Stele of Vultures portrays the king of Lagash leading an infantry phalanx of armored, helmeted warriors, armed with spears, trampling their enemies. The king, with a socket axe, rides a chariot drawn by four onagers (wild asses.) In a lower panel, Eannatum holds a sickle-sword. The information and implications of this stele are priceless.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrmetz/gabr0004.htm
Reference to: Tablets of Shuruppak (2600 B.C.)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion/arcproj/war/FragmentfromtheSteleofthe%20.jpg
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~murray/classes/ah/vultures.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/archaeology/ARY2002/images/NEjpg/9902210010.jpg
