Variability In The Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts
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Variability In The Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-10-20
Variability In The Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-20 with History categories.
This book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.
Society And Death In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Janet E. Richards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-07
Society And Death In Ancient Egypt written by Janet E. Richards 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 2005-03-07 with History categories.
Janet Richards considers social stratification in Middle Kingdom Egypt, exploring the assumption that a 'middle class' arose during this period. By focusing on the entire range of mortuary behavior, she shows how Middle Kingdom Egyptian practices and landscapes relating to death reveal information about the living society.
The Book Of The Dead
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Author : Kelly Mass
language : en
Publisher: Efalon Acies
Release Date : 2023-12-12
The Book Of The Dead written by Kelly Mass and has been published by Efalon Acies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with History categories.
The ancient Egyptian mortuary text known as the Book of the Dead had its heyday from the onset of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) until approximately 50 BCE. Crafted on papyrus, this collection of magical spells, coined as the "Book," aimed to guide the departed through the Duat, or underworld, into the realm beyond. It represented an amalgamation of texts contributed by various priests over nearly 1,000 years. Stored within the deceased's coffin or burial chamber, the Book of the Dead marked a continuation of funerary literature, succeeding the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were inscribed on items rather than papyrus. Some spells within the book dated back to the third millennium BCE, while others emerged during the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BCE). These spells, once inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi, eventually found their place in the Book of the Dead.
Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt
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Author : Jan Assmann
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-14
Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt written by Jan Assmann and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-14 with History categories.
"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.
Middle Kingdom Palace Culture And Its Echoes In The Provinces
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Author : Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-01-25
Middle Kingdom Palace Culture And Its Echoes In The Provinces written by Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-25 with History categories.
The chapters of Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces discuss the degree of influence that provincial developments played in reshaping the Egyptian state and culture during the Middle Kingdom. Contributors to the volume are Egyptologists from around the world who have developed their research following a conference held at the University of Jaén in Spain.
Historical And Archaeological Aspects Of Egyptian Funerary Culture
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Author : Harco Willems
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Historical And Archaeological Aspects Of Egyptian Funerary Culture written by Harco Willems and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with History categories.
This study of the history of regional elites and of the archaeology of their cemeteries shows that the Coffin Texts of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom do not reflect a form of popular religion, but rather the cult of local rulers.
The Mortuary Papyrus Of Padikakem
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Author : Yekaterina Barbash
language : en
Publisher: Yale Egyptology
Release Date : 2011-12-31
The Mortuary Papyrus Of Padikakem written by Yekaterina Barbash and has been published by Yale Egyptology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with History categories.
This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two uncommon texts in hieratic. The initial text, a Ritual of Introducing the Multitude on the Last Day of Tekh, is identified as a temple liturgy by its rubric title, while its themes recall love poetry and the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The second text, a rarely attested Book III of glorification spells (sakhw) has an exclusively mortuary character. The spells of this section largely originate in the Pyramid Texts and include specific instructions for recitation by the lector priest. The two texts are established as a coherent composition that belongs to the Greco-Roman tradition of merging Egyptian funerary practices with temple liturgies. The diverse sources and themes of the texts shed light on the evolution of Osirian and mortuary theologies from the Old Kingdom onwards. The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and paleography among the parallels.
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts
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Author : Raymond Oliver Faulkner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts written by Raymond Oliver Faulkner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Egypt categories.
The Coffin Of Heqata
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Author : Harco Willems
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 1996
The Coffin Of Heqata written by Harco Willems and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Coffin texts categories.
The coffin published in this book represents a type that had some popularity in southern Upper Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, but which, despite its extraordinary decoration had not attracted attention so far. The most striking feature of the decoration is that the object friezes - the pictorial rendering of ritual implements usually found on coffin interiors of the period - also include complete ritual scenes, some of which are attested only here. Apart from this, the decoration includes an extensive selection of the religious texts know as the Coffin Texts. The author first studies the archaeological context and dating of the coffin and attempts a reconstruction of the construction procedures from his technical description of the monument. The detailed account of the decoration in the rest of the book interprets the ritual iconography and offers fresh translations and interpretations of the Coffin Texts. A methodological innovation is that he regards the scenes and texts not as individual decoration elements, but as components of an integral composition. The background of this composition is argued to be a view of life in the hereafter in which the deceased is involved in an unending cycle of ritual action which reflects the funerary rituals that were actually performed on earth. On the one hand, these netherworldly rituals aim at bringing the deceased to new life by mummification, on the other the newly regenerated deceased partakes in embalming rituals for gods representing his dead father (Osiris or Atum). These gods, in their turn, effectuate the deceased's regeneration. The entire process results in a cycle of resuscitation in which the afterlife of the deceased and of the 'father gods' are interdependent. The sociological bias of this interpretation, with its emphasis on kinship relations, differs significantly from earlier attempts to explain Egyptian funerary religion.
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.