Dear Colleagues I am searching for any information to which you can point me, relating to fumigatory practices in Ptolemaic Egypt. I am also interested in the connection Fraser makes (p. 206) between Serapis-Osiris-Dionysus. Regards Dirk
Dirk Buchner, D.Litt. Associate Professor Dept Religious Studies Trinity Western University Tel: +1 (604) 513 2121 x 3112 Fax +1 (604) 513 2094 -----Original Message----- From: The papyrological bulletin '[email protected]' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunsucker, R.L. Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAPY] new effort to benefit library holdings > The idea is that by posting this sort of information it will inform > others that they should try to have their libraries acquire these > overlooked volumes, and it is also our hope that classics librarians > will themselves get in the habit of monitoring these "Rare > Publications" postings and acting on them. . . . > so I wanted to draw it to everyone's attention. Why don't you directly approach those responsible ? : Have you e.g. made this kind of posting also directly to any librarians' fora ? Some of us are, I am happy to assure you, already "in the habit" of tracing and ordering rare epigraphical (and all sorts of other) publications. I do it myself -- but of course I don't notice everything (and, like all librarians, can't buy everything, having budgets and therefore priorities as we do -- which also means that not acquired needn't be equivalent to "overlooked"), and thank you very much for pointing out your "new effort". An excellent initiative in my opinion -- and indeed its usefulness has already been demonstrated : I just myself ordered for our collection a couple of things from your list which were not yet anywhere in this country. - Laval Hunsucker U. Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: The papyrological bulletin '[email protected]' > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gil Renberg > Verzonden: dinsdag 22 januari 2008 19:58 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: [PAPY] new effort to benefit library holdings > > > Over at the "Current Epigraphy" blog > (http://www.currentepigraphy.org/), > Tom Elliott, Gabby Bodard, Chuck Jones and I just began a new effort > to get epigraphers to notify each other whenever they find that a book > is rare or unavailable in research libraries. The idea is that by > posting this sort of information it will inform others that they > should try to have their libraries acquire these overlooked volumes, > and it is also our hope that classics librarians will themselves get > in the habit of monitoring these "Rare Publications" postings and > acting on them. Over time, with enough participation, there will be a > lot of holes plugged, making a lot more books readily available > through inter-library loan, which will work to our collective benefit > for decades to come. This sort of approach could also benefit the > papyrological community, so I wanted to draw it to everyone's > attention. > > On a completely unrelated note, I want to thank those of you who made > suggestions about which Demotic font to use. I'm still trying to sort > it out, and very much appreciate the suggestions I got both on the > list and privately. >
