Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2015, 3(2), 82-87

DOI: 10.24411/2310-2144-2015-00005

Magna Troy. Practice of embalming.

Larisa V. Urnysheva¹

¹Southern Federal University (SFU), Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation; e-mails: lournycheva@yahoo.com, larisa-elena@yandex.ru

Abstract

Two descriptions of the architectural constructions, the Chamber of Ylion and the Tabernacle of Hector, have been studied in the present paper. The both were extracted from the medieval Troy History by Guido de Columnis in the Latin and in the illuminated Russian versions. The comparative analysis of the medieval Russian illuminated handwritten History of Troy and of the Latin text of the Historia destructionis Troiae by Guido de Columnis, edited for the Medieval Academy of America by Nathaniel Edward Griffin, is the subject of my present work. In this paper I present the examination of the two fragments from the chapters XXI and XXII of the Troy History, the last passage contains the description of the funeral practice of the Hector body.

Keywords: medieval chronicles, medieval Latin, Guido de Columna, History of Troy, Russian Corpus of the illuminate World Chronicles.

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