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Private Religion at Amarna

Author : Anna Stevens
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Private Religion at Amarna written by Anna Stevens and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study the author approaches the realm of 'private religion' in Egypt some 3,300 years ago. The two broad research questions that frame this study are: What was the structure of the private religious landscape at Amarna (Central Egypt, on the Nile), and what were the ideas that shaped this landscape? The starting point is a corpus of objects and structures from settlement remains at one site, Amarna, the location of Egypt's capital for a brief period (c.350 - 330 BCE) towards the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. At the height of its occupation, Amarna was the administrative, political and religious centre of Egypt. (Estimates of the city 's population at this time range between 20,000 and 50,000 people.) This publication is divided into three parts.Part I places the study in context. The history of the Amarna period, the layout of the site and its excavation history are summarized. Part 2 explores the issue of how to define private religion and identify its material remnants: the inventory of the material evidence - objects, architectural emplacements and buildings. It is hoped that the dissemination of this material will assist others researching similar topics, making available unpublished evidence from most of the main phases of excavation at the site. Part 3 explores the design, manufacture and acquisition of the material components of religion, and considers the forms of the conduct in which they were used. Also examined are the transcendental forces involved: the royal family and Aten, and 'traditional ' deities and spirits, including private ancestors. Part 3 also considers the shape of the religious cityscape, and the questions of who was participating in religion, and what was done with the material when it was no longer in use. The study concludes with a discussion of the motivating factors that underlay religious conduct, and which open a small window onto the ideas that shaped the religious landscape more broadly.

Personal Religion in Domestic Contexts during the New Kingdom

Author : Iria Souto Castro
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275065
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Personal Religion in Domestic Contexts during the New Kingdom by : Iria Souto Castro

Download or read book Personal Religion in Domestic Contexts during the New Kingdom written by Iria Souto Castro and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has three main themes: the definition of personal religion and religious domestic practices from a theoretical perspective; the description and analysis of the main archaeological and anthropological evidence; and, on that basis, the study of the impact of the Amarna period in the development of personal religion during the New Kingdom.

Following Osiris

Author : Mark Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019958222X
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Following Osiris written by Mark Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. This volume is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, focusing on five distinct periods over four millennia to trace changes in aspirations for the Osirian afterlife and explore when and why they occurred

Weseretkau 'Mighty of Kas'

Author : Deanna Kiser-Go
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1948488868
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Book Synopsis Weseretkau 'Mighty of Kas' by : Deanna Kiser-Go

Download or read book Weseretkau 'Mighty of Kas' written by Deanna Kiser-Go and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weseretkau "Mighty of Kas," honors the life and career of Professor Cathleen "Candy" Keller, a truly extraordinary teacher, scholar, Egyptologist, and polymath. The contributors to this volume were Professor Keller's students, friends, and colleagues. Though much of the research presented here centers around the honoree's two primary passions--Egyptian art and the study of the village of Deir el-Medina--the range of topics reflects her broad Egyptological interests, including religious organization, artistic technique, museum collections, textual analyses, historical events, and archaeological studies at sites throughout Egypt.

Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct

Author : Elizabeth A. Waraksa
Publisher : Saint-Paul
ISBN 13 : 9783525534564
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct by : Elizabeth A. Waraksa

Download or read book Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct written by Elizabeth A. Waraksa and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elizabeth A. Waraksa examines the ceramic female figurines excavated by John Hopkins at the Precinct of Mut in Luxor, Egypt between 2001 and 2004. The figurines date from the New Kingdom to the Late Period (ca. 1550-332 BCE). Ceramic figurines are frequently overlooked by archaeologists, art historians, and social historians because the lack the aesthetic qualities usually associated wit Egyptian art. However, the Hopkins-excavated figurines display features that mark them as standardized ritual objects. Waraksa argues that ceramic female figurines were produced in Workshops, utilized by magician/physicians in healing rituals, and regularly snapped and discarded at the end of their effective "lives". This is a new, broader interpretation for objects that have previously been considered as toys, dolly, concubine figures, and - most recently - votive "fertility figurines"."--Publisher's website

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617385
Total Pages : 1135 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion by : Timothy Insoll

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion written by Timothy Insoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span - Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas - and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

Author : Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174818
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire written by Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact of the Roman Empire on religious behaviour, with a special focus on the dynamics of ritual. The volume is divided into three sections: ritualising the empire, performing civic community in the empire and performing religion in the empire.

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity

Author : Ralph Haussler
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253284
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity by : Ralph Haussler

Download or read book Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.

The Royal Women of Amarna

Author : Dorothea Arnold
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870998161
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Women of Amarna written by Dorothea Arnold and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The move to a new capital, Akhenaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art.

Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur Bd. 45 (2016)

Author : Jochem Kahl
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3875489454
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)

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Book Synopsis Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur Bd. 45 (2016) by : Jochem Kahl

Download or read book Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur Bd. 45 (2016) written by Jochem Kahl and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. Abdel-Raziq: An unpublished small sculpture of a female acrobat at the Al-Salam School Museum in Assiut. N. Abdelwahed | J. M. Iskander | T. Tawfik: The Blocks from the Nilometer at Roda. Preliminary Report on the Reconstruction Work. B. Ahmed: The Stela of Hori-Sheri at the Egyptian Museum (Cairo JE 59858). H. Beinlich: Das Relief Hildesheim F 38. M. Wilding Brown: A New Analysis of the Titles of Teti on Statue BM EA 888. K. Cortebeeck: Stamp seals in ancient Egyptian tombs. A revision of the usages in quest of the sex of their owners. K. Hassan: Two Administrative Hieratic ostraca from Deir el-Bahri (Late 20th and Early 21st Dynasties). B. Hufft: Motivtransfer und Rezeption? Ein Beitrag zu den ägyptischen reliefierten Lotuskelchen der 3. Zwischenzeit. K. Jansen-Winkeln: H#wtj "Anführer" als allgemeine Bezeichnung und als Titel. E. Lanciers: The Cult of Arensnuphis in Thebes in the Graeco-Roman Period. H. Madkour: An Eleventh Dynasty Stela of the Priest Ka-whmi. D. Metawi: A Late-Eighteenth Dynasty Memphite Stela (Cairo Museum JE 20222). A. J. Morales: A false-door spell in the Pyramid Texts? An interpretation for the discontinuation of PT355. A. J. Morales | S. Falk | M. Osman | R. Sánchez: Casado | H. Shared | K. Yamamoto | E. H. Zidan: The Middle Kingdom Theban Project Preliminary report on the Freie Universität Mission to Deir el-Bahari, First and Second Seasons (2015–2016). J. F. Quack: Zur Situierung von TB 166 Pleyte. M. G. Rashed | A. A. Abdelrahman: The Statue of Ankhef-Khonsou from Karnak Cachette (CK 1164). J. C. Sánchez-León | A. Jiménez-Serrano: Keeping Provincial Power in the Lineage During the Twelfth Dynasty: The Case of Khema, Governor of Elephantine. J. M. Serrano: Threesolar hymns from Dra Abu el-Naga. S. Soleiman An Inscribed Slab of Unknown Ownership discovered recently at Saqqara. N. Staring: RevisitingThree Objects in Berlin Pertaining to the Mayor of Memphis, Ptahmose The "Lost" Faience Stela ÄM 19718 and the Limestone Pyramid Panels ÄM 1631-1632. S. Töpfer: Teile des Totenbuches des Anch-ef-en-Chonsu, Sohn des Bes-en-Mut in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Wien Aeg. 12022a+b).

Images, Perceptions and Productions in and of Antiquity

Author : Maria Helena Trindade Lopes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527592766
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Images, Perceptions and Productions in and of Antiquity written by Maria Helena Trindade Lopes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides access to new and exclusive research in several Antiquity and Antiquity-related fields and subjects. Revolving around four general subjects (Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near and Middle East, the Classical World, and the Reception of Antiquity), it will provide access to new works spanning from archaeology, literature, art, reception studies, among others, allowing the reader to gain insights into some of the most current subjects of investigation in modern academia.

Power of the Priests

Author : Sabine Kubisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311067632X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Power of the Priests written by Sabine Kubisch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ancient Egyptian Scribes

Author : Niv Allon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472583981
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Scribes written by Niv Allon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society. And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left us, we know relatively little about what underpinned their world, about their mentality and about their everyday life. Tracing ten key biographies, Ancient Egyptian Scribes examines how these figures kept both the administrative life and cultural memory of Egypt running. These are the Egyptians who ran the state and formed the supposedly meritocratic system of local administration and government. Case studies look at accountants, draughtsmen, scribes with military and dynastic roles, the authors of graffiti and literati who interacted in different ways with Pharaohs and other leaders. Assuming no previous knowledge of ancient Egypt, the various roles and identities of the scribes are presented in a concise and accessible way, offering structured information on their cultural identity and self-presentation, and providing readers with an insight into the making of Egyptian written culture.

Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet

Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774595
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet written by Nicholas Reeves and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Reeves’s radical interpretation of a revolutionary king—now available in paperback. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten has captured the imagination like no other Egyptian pharaoh. Much has been written about this strange, persecuted figure, whose depiction in effigies is totally at odds with the traditional depiction of the Egyptian ruler-hero. Akhenaten sought to impose upon Egypt and its people the worship of a single god—the sun god—and in so doing changed the country in every way. In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands. Backed by abundant archaeological and documentary evidence, Reeves’s narrative also provides many new insights into questions that have baffled scholars for generations—the puzzle of the body in Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings; the fate of Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s beautiful wife; the identity of his mysterious successor, Smenkhkare; and the theory that Tutankhamun, Akhenaten’s son and heir to the throne, was murdered.

Understanding the Relationship Between Religion and Entrepreneurship

Author : Tamzini, Khaled
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799818047
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding the Relationship Between Religion and Entrepreneurship by : Tamzini, Khaled

Download or read book Understanding the Relationship Between Religion and Entrepreneurship written by Tamzini, Khaled and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a number of scholars trained in the area of economics have begun to pay attention to a fascinating and increasingly important question: Does the interrelationship between religion and enterprise shape entrepreneurial decision making? Though religious groups can provide additional means for the generation of social capital, especially where ethnicity is strongly associated with specific religious adherence, it has been largely absent in economic discussions. Understanding the Relationship Between Religion and Entrepreneurship is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of religious theology on entrepreneurial decision making. While highlighting topics including women in business, religious marketing, and consumer behavior, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, theologists, business managers, policymakers, researchers, industry professionals, academician, and students seeking current research on the economic impacts of religious beliefs and practices.

Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World

Author : Martin Bommas
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441116796
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World written by Martin Bommas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of memory in shaping religion in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East

Author : Benjamin W. Porter
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323257
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East written by Benjamin W. Porter and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies, teams of researchers with different skillsets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis—integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region’s societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East. Demonstrating the still underexplored potential of bioarchaeological analysis in ancient societies, Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East serves as a model for using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct commemoration practices. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, the archaeology of death and burial, bioarchaeology, and human skeletal biology.