From The Records Of A Priestly Family From Memphis

Author : Eve A. E. Reymond
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 3447021683

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From the Records of a Priestly Family from Memphis by Eve A. E. Reymond Pdf

Within the frame of studies devoted to the history of Egypt under the Ptolemies, E. A. E. Reymond presents documentary sources relating to the history of a family of Memphite priests who occupied a prominent position. Their records, inscribed in hieroglyphic and Demotic writing on funerary stelae, range in date from the time of Ptolemy II Philadelphos to the Roman invasion and shed new light on the inter-relationship of Greek sovereigns, Egyptian priesthood and native nobility. This volume includes the relevant texts together with translations, indices and photographs of the monuments concerned.

Author : Sabine Kubisch,Hilmar Klinkott
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110676327

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Power of the Priests by Sabine Kubisch,Hilmar Klinkott Pdf

Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel.

Author : Carl F. Petry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521068851

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The Cambridge History of Egypt by Carl F. Petry Pdf

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Author : Rune Nyord,Kim Ryholt
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9788763542081

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Lotus and Laurel by Rune Nyord,Kim Ryholt Pdf

Lotus and Laurel brings together a wealth of essays in celebration of Paul John Frandsen, who has had a distinguished career as a scholar of ancient Egyptian language and religion. The contributors are friends, colleagues, or former students, and all are leading authorities in Egyptology. Evoking Frandsen's wide range of interests, they touch on a breadth of topics, including religious thought and representation; social questions of gender, kinship, and temple slavery; and studies of grammar and etymology. More than a tribute to this important scholar in Egyptology, Lotus and Laurel is a window onto some of the most important work going on now in the field.

Author : László Török
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004211292

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Hellenizing Art in Ancient Nubia 300 B.C. - AD 250 and its Egyptian Models by László Török Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the culture transfer between Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and Nubia between 300 BC-AD 250. Hellenizing art in Nubia is treated as a Nubian phenomenon expressing Nubian ideas in which only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art were adopted that were compatible with those goals.

Author : Jochem Kahl,Nicole Kloth
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783875489422

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Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Band 42 by Jochem Kahl,Nicole Kloth Pdf

Mohamed Abdelrahiem: The Festival Court of the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos (Part II). Hartwig Altenmüller: Anubis mit der Scheibe im Mythos von der Geburt des Gottkönigs. Stefan Baumann: Der saisonale Aspekt der Ressortgötter in der Opfereingangskammer von Edfu. Francis Breyer: Die ›Punthalle‹ von Dair al-Ba?ri aus dem Alten Reich. Philologisch-epigraphische, textkritische und ikonographische cruces im Zusammenspiel von Darstellungen und Inschriften. Martin Fitzenreiter: Zeit und Raum (und Licht) – Wahrnehmung und deren Konstruktion im pharaonischen Ägypten (Notizen zum Grab des Pennut Teil VI 1⁄2 ). Jana Helmbold-Doyé: Kronen in der Bilderwelt der Ptolemäer- und Römerzeit. Die Kronenfelder in den Gräbern 1 und 2 von Anfouchy (Alexandria). Jochem Kahl / Mahmoud El-Khadragy / Ursula Verhoeven / Mohamed Abdelrahiem / Ewa Czyzewska: The Asyut Project: Tenth Season of Fieldwork (2012). David Klotz: A Theban Devotee of Seth from the Late Period – Now Missing. Ex-Hannover, Museum August Kestner Inv. S. 0366. Kirsten Konrad: Ein weiterer Basinophor. Zur Deutung der Sitzstatue eines Schreibers namens Eje (Ijj). Maxim Kupreyev: Questions of time in Late Egyptian. A missing category? Günther Lapp: Ein ungewöhnlicher Osirishymnus aus der Übergangszeit von Sargtexten zum Totenbuch. Dina Metawi: A Possible Father-Daughter Marriage in the New Kingdom (Cairo Museum N 129). Jan Moje: Die hieroglyphisch/demotische Stele Louvre E 13074: Synoptische Untersuchung der bilinguen Inschriften. Ludwig D. Morenz: Schrift-Archäologie. Eine Fallstudie zur Grabfassade des Har-chuf. Chloé C. D. Ragazzoli: The social creation of a scribal place. The visitors' inscriptions in the tomb ttributed to Antefiqer (TT 60) (With newly recorded graffiti). Mykola Tarasenko: Development of illustrative tradition of the chapter 42 of the Book of the Dead. Mohamed A. El-Tonssy: Some Unpublished Monuments from Atfih Necropolis. Sami Uljas: A Traitor or a Thief? Teti Son of Minhetep's Crime Once Again. Wolfgang Waitkus: Das Herabkommen des Sternbildes Mcxtjw (Großer Wagen) als eine Periphrase für den Abendbeginn in einem problematischen Festdatum. Anschriften der Autorinnen und Autoren · Tafelteil

Author : Jacco Dieleman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406747

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Priests, Tongues, and Rites by Jacco Dieleman Pdf

This study of two related Demotic-Greek magical handbooks provides new information about the interaction between native Egyptian priests and the Hellenized elite of Roman-period Egypt through a careful analysis language interference, textual layout, religious imagery and ritual techniques.

Author : Paul Edmund Stanwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292787476

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Portraits of the Ptolemies by Paul Edmund Stanwick Pdf

As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal sculptures from this period testify to the power of the Ptolemaic dynasty and its influence on Egyptian artistic traditions that even then were more than two thousand years old. In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events. To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period.

Author : Dorothy J. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400843053

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Memphis Under the Ptolemies by Dorothy J. Thompson Pdf

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

Author : Alexandre Loktionov
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275864

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Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt by Alexandre Loktionov Pdf

How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language itself, with reference to all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times.

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752583

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Cleopatra by Duane W. Roller Pdf

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom. Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius--the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom--were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. "Roller tells his tale smoothly and accessibly....The resulting portrait is that of a complex, many-sided figure, a potent Hellenistic ruler who could move the tillers of power as skillfully as any man, and one far and nobly removed from the 'constructed icon' of popular imagination." --The New York Times Book Review "A rich account of late Ptolemaic culture." --The New Yorker "Offers a superb panorama of the society and culture of late Ptolemaic Egypt, with vivid sketches of the (remarkably vigorous) intellectual life of Cleopatra's Alexandria and the structural instabilities of the late Ptolemaic state." --Times Literary Supplement "Besides providing a compelling story and breathing fresh air into a heretofore two-dimensional caricature from history, Roller's 'Cleopatra' provides an interesting commentary on the attitudes still prevalent towards women who rule." --Christian Science Monitor "Compulsively readable." --Bookslut "A definitive account of a queen of remarkable strength." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Duane W. Roller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199746026

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Cleopatra: A BIography by Duane W. Roller Pdf

Author : Kim Ryholt
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8772896485

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Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies by Kim Ryholt Pdf

This book contains contributions from K.T. Zauzich, H.S. Smith, B. Porten, U. Kaplony-Heckel, R.K. Ritner, S. Allam, M. Chauveau, and D. Devauchelle.

Author : Donald B. Redford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400834556

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City of the Ram-Man by Donald B. Redford Pdf

A richly illustrated history that sheds light on ancient Egypt across the millennia In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries—including many of his own—to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the "fornicating ram who mounts the beauties." Excavation by Redford and his colleagues over the past two decades has cast a flood of light on this strange center of worship and political power located in the Nile Delta. A sweeping chronological account filled with photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars, City of the Ram-Man is the first history of Mendes written for general readers. Founded in the remote prehistoric past, inhabited continuously for 5,000 years, and abandoned only in the first-century BC, Mendes is a microcosm of ancient Egyptian history. City of the Ram-Man tells the city's full story—from its founding, through its development of a great society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline. Central to the story is millennia of worship dedicated to the lascivious ram-god. The book describes the discoveries of the great temple of the ram and the "Mansion of the Rams," where the embalmed bodies of the avatars of the god were buried. It also discusses ancient Greek reports that these ram-gods occasionally ritually fornicated with women. Vividly written and informed throughout by Redford's intimate knowledge of the remains of Mendes, City of the Ram-Man is a unique account of a long-lost monument of Egyptian history, religion, and culture.

Author : Kathryn A. Bard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1443 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134665242

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Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt by Kathryn A. Bard Pdf

The Encyclopedia opens with a general map of the region and a chronology of periods and dynasties, providing a context for the entries. The first section of the volume then comprises 14 overviews which explore the history and significance of each period. The main body of the text offers more than 300 alphabetically organized entries, written by some of the most eminent scholars in this field. Areas covered include: artefacts - glass, jewellery, sculpture archaeological practices - dating techniques, representational evidence, textual sources biographies - Howard Carter, Gertrude Caton Thompson, Gaston Maspero buildings - cult temples, private tombs, pyramid complexes geographical features - agriculture, climate, irrigation sites - Abydos, Dakhla Oasis, Thebes social organization - kingship, law, taxation The text is extensively illustrated with over 120 images. Each entry is followed by a selected further reading section which includes foreign language sources to supplement the available works in English.