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title: "The Temple of Esna. An Evolving Translation: Esna IV"
author: "David Klotz"
date: "2023-03-21T17:41:49Z"
tags: [Translation]
link: "https://bookdown.org/shemanefer/Esna4/"
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A book created with bookdown. [...] This is a continuation of my ongoing quest to translate all the Roman inscriptions from Esna temple. The previous two volumes are now complete, and can be found here: Esna II and Esna III. I will continue to make changes and updates to those, including some desperately needed proof-reading. Esna IV covers the architraves along the ceiling of the pronaos. The ceiling of the temple was conceived in antiquity as a replica of the sky, so constellations and other astronomical figures were projected over this space. As such, many of the texts are captions to the ...
