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Nov. 15th, 2009 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbToday, no work done, except for a wee tiny bit of reading. Statues of the Ptolemaic queens and the potential relationship of their iconography to Isis, if anyone's interested. Turns out, apparently, that the iconographical association of many of the Ptolemaic "royal" elements to Isis cannot be isolated before the Roman period. Which was a useful use of twenty pages, and may come in handy later, though since I neglected to photocopy the references, I need to track down the 1999 publication of Elizabeth J. Walters. When I have time.
(If anyone expresses interest - I do not recommend it - I will one day do a brief rundown of what the actual research for my thesis has turned up. Around the holidays, maybe.)
Tomorrow, I go to climb with a friend who hopefully has not died of his cold, and then I must be a virtuous human being and perform a deed that earns money. And read Fraser's Two Studies on the Cult of Sarapis, which might date from 1960 but is still widely cited. (As is Sterling Dow's 1937 article on the Egyptian cults of Athens. I could wish academics might occasionally perform up-to-date surveys of the material useful for undergraduates. But wait! I was fool enough to embark upon an obscure topic for my thesis, so it serves me right.)
(If anyone expresses interest - I do not recommend it - I will one day do a brief rundown of what the actual research for my thesis has turned up. Around the holidays, maybe.)
Tomorrow, I go to climb with a friend who hopefully has not died of his cold, and then I must be a virtuous human being and perform a deed that earns money. And read Fraser's Two Studies on the Cult of Sarapis, which might date from 1960 but is still widely cited. (As is Sterling Dow's 1937 article on the Egyptian cults of Athens. I could wish academics might occasionally perform up-to-date surveys of the material useful for undergraduates. But wait! I was fool enough to embark upon an obscure topic for my thesis, so it serves me right.)
