Studies In Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature
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Studies In Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature
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Author : Susanne Bickel
language : de
Publisher: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analect
Release Date : 2017
Studies In Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature written by Susanne Bickel and has been published by Orientalia Lovaniensia Analect this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Ancient Egyptian funerary literature encompasses a complex, dynamic, and open group of texts and images selected to be deposited in mortuary settings. Despite this shared final purpose, they derive from a variety of spheres of origin (ritual, apotropaic, medical, legal) and can be concurrently used in different contexts. They further exhibit a semantic density and were transmitted across the centuries, and subjected to modifications as they were incorporated into new social, religious, or functional environments. With a wide chronological spectrum of topics addressed, the manifold approaches collected here aim to challenge traditional conceptions and procedures of analysis and to introduce new sets of ideas.
Concepts In Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture
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Author : Rune Nyord
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-20
Concepts In Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture written by Rune Nyord and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with History categories.
Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture presents a collection of archaeological and philological papers discussing how ancient Egyptians thought, and modern scholars may think, about Egyptian funerary practices of the early 2nd millennium BCE.
A Journey Through The Beyond
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Author : Silvia Zago
language : en
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
A Journey Through The Beyond written by Silvia Zago and has been published by Lockwood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with History categories.
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs, the Duat, or netherworld. The Duat is a complicated, multifaceted notion, which was never canonized into a single version of the beyond, but offered instead a variety of alternatives attempting to describe the metaphysical realms beyond the visible world, and beyond life. Theological speculations gave rise to a rich textual and visual repertoire, which underwent a process of evolution over thousands of years, during which newer ideas and images were constantly introduced. Through the analysis of royal and non-royal funerary texts from the late Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom, this book traces the development of the conceptualization of the notion of Duat, outlining what it encompassed and where it was imagined to be located. In addition to the translation and discussion of the most significant passages of the texts analyzed, each chapter also provides an overview of the individual compositions and of the relevant theological, cosmological, and astronomical notions complementing the conceptual framework, of which the Duat formed but a part. Additionally, discussions of concurrent changes in Egyptian culture, society, and ideology are included in order to clarify the context in which afterlife beliefs and related texts evolved. An analysis of the correlation between funerary compositions and their material supports complements the study, emphasizing the Egyptians' belief in a magical synergy between texts, images, and their contexts in the activation of a suitable, effective afterlife for the recipients of the texts.
Ancient Egyptian And Mediterranean Studies
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Author : William A. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University
Release Date : 1998
Ancient Egyptian And Mediterranean Studies written by William A. Ward and has been published by Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Table of Contents: Preface; William A. Ward (1928-1996); Bibliography of William A. Ward; The Absolute Date of the Montet Jar Scarabs (Daphna Ben-Tor); A Funerary Address to the High-priest Harmakhis (J.F. Borghouts); A coffin from Farshût in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Edward Brovarski); The Hieroglyphic Representation of the Moon's Absence (Psdntyw) (Leo Depuydt); Hurrian Incursions and the End of the Middle Bronze Age in Syria-Palestine: A Rejoinder to Nadav Na'aman (William G. Dever); The Social Setting of the Peoples of the Ancient Near East: An Assessment of Johannes Pedersen (1883-1977) (Ernest S. Frerichs); The Near East Background of the Rigveda (Cyrus H. Gordon); Representations of the Elserly in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature (Rivkah Harris); An Attic Red Figure Chous with Heroes in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (R. Ross Holloway); Re-Discovering Elephants at Petra! (Martha Sharp Joukowsky); Queen Khamerernebty II and Her Sculpture (Barbara S. Lesko); The Perception of Women in Pharaonic Egyptian Wisdom Literature (Leonard H. Lesko); A Much-Published Byblite Cylinder Seal (Geoffrey T. Martin); La Désignation juridique des femmes, d'après les documents contractuels et judiciaires de l'Égypte Ancienne (Bernadette Menu); The Levantine Branch of the von Heidenstam Family in the 19th Century A.D. (R.S. Merrillees); Phoenician Inscriptions from Beirut (Hélène Sader); William A. Ward and Beirut: Archaeological News from the Capital of his Choice (Helga Seeden); The Significance of Anointing in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Beliefs (Stephen F. Thompson); Bronzes in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (Rolf Winkes).
Crowns In Egyptian Funerary Literature
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Author : Katja Goebs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Crowns In Egyptian Funerary Literature written by Katja Goebs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Crowns categories.
This book presents a new approach to analysing the image of ancient Egyptian kings and gods. The author studies textual evidence rather than the often stereotyped iconography, focusing on mentions of the king's White and Red Crowns and demonstrating that they possess a wide-ranging symbolism that transcends the terrestrial sphere to encompass the divine and the cosmos, death and rebirth. In funerary texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2300-1700 BC), crowns play a part in the deceased king's ascent to the sky and transfiguration, enabling him to assume the form and powers of a celestial god. Crowns express such attributes as the legitimate rule of gods or of the deceased, as well as radiance; they are also metaphors for cosmic events. Personified as goddesses, they are the deceased's mothers and nurses. These symbolic functions are integrated into richly metaphorical texts that combine the explicit with the allusive and the concrete with the evanescent. The book discusses occurrences of the White, Red, and Double Crowns in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts, as well as other selected examples. A major section reinterprets the famous Cannibal Spell as a description of sunrise that fits seamlessly with the themes of other texts. This study will be of great interest not just to Egyptologists but also for the parallels it offers for styles of royal and divine symbolism that are found in many civilisations.
Illuminating Osiris
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Author : Richard Jasnow
language : en
Publisher: Lockwood Press
Release Date : 2017-01-03
Illuminating Osiris written by Richard Jasnow and has been published by Lockwood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with History categories.
Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.
Ancient Egyptian Literature
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Author : Antonio Loprieno
language : de
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Ancient Egyptian Literature written by Antonio Loprieno and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twenty scholars have contributed to this book which deals with the development and characteristics of the literature of ancient Egypt over a period of over more than two millenia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BC) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300BC-200AD). The book is divided into thirty chapters concerned with the definition of literary discourse, the history and genre of the texts, their linguistic and stylistic features and the image of Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions - Greek, Coptic and Arabic. Thoroughly interdisciplinary.
Interdisciplinary Explorations Of Postmortem Interaction
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Author : Estella Weiss-Krejci
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-23
Interdisciplinary Explorations Of Postmortem Interaction written by Estella Weiss-Krejci and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with Social Science categories.
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forebears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. Although archaeologists and literary critics have been increasingly willing to borrow concepts and terminology from the other discipline, this book is one examples of a genuinely collaborative endeavor. This is an open access book.
The Mummy
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Author : E. A. Wallis Budge
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
The Mummy written by E. A. Wallis Budge and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Social Science categories.
A comprehensive discussion of the rituals and objects used in ancient Egyptian burials and the mummification process.
Ancient Egyptian Coffins
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Author : Julie Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2019
Ancient Egyptian Coffins written by Julie Dawson and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Major new multi-disciplinary collection of papers focusing on the development of the coffin in ancient Egypt and the belief systems behind funerary practices involving their use and on new methods and applications of scientific techniques for the analysis of construction, materials and craftmanship involved in coffin manufacture and reworking.