The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom

The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9789004435681
ISBN-13 : 9004435689
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom by : María de los Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras

In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties.

A Prosopographic Study of the New Kingdom Tomb Owners of Dra Abu el-Naga

A Prosopographic Study of the New Kingdom Tomb Owners of Dra Abu el-Naga
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781803270555
ISBN-13 : 1803270551
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis A Prosopographic Study of the New Kingdom Tomb Owners of Dra Abu el-Naga by : Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras

Containing the dating, kinship data and titles for each tomb owner of 54 tombs located in the southern area of the Theban cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, this book will prove of great assistance as a handbook or catalogue for research on New Kingdom Dra Abu el-Naga or the study of prosopography and kinship relationships.

The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom

The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 559
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ISBN-10 : 9789004467149
ISBN-13 : 9004467149
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom by : Nico Staring

This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site’s development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs’ spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes.

The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt

The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9781107030381
ISBN-13 : 1107030382
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt by : Richard Bussmann

In this book, Richard Bussmann presents a fresh overview of ancient Egyptian society and culture in the age of the pyramids. He addresses key themes in the comparative research of early complex societies, including urbanism, funerary culture, temple ritual, kingship, and the state, and explores how ideas and practices were exchanged between ruling elites and local communities in provincial Egypt. Unlike other studies of ancient Egypt, this book adopts an anthropological approach that places people at the centre of the analysis. Bussmann covers a range of important themes in cross-cultural debates, such as materiality, gender, non-elite culture, and the body. He also offers new perspectives on social diversity and cultural cohesion, based on recent discoveries. His study vividly illustrates how our understanding of ancient Egyptian society benefits from the application of theoretical concepts in archaeology and anthropology to the interpretation of the evidence.

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 519
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ISBN-10 : 9781538157503
ISBN-13 : 1538157500
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by : Morris L. Bierbrier

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition covers the whole range of the history of ancient Egypt from the Prehistoric Period until the end of Roman rule in Egypt based on the latest information provided by academic scholars and archaeologists. This is done through a revised introduction on the history of ancient Egypt, the dictionary section has over 1,000 dictionary entries on historical figures, geographical locations, important institutions and other facets of ancient Egyptian civilization. This is followed by two appendices one of which is a chronological table of Egyptian rulers and governors and the other a list of all known museums which contain ancient Egyptian objects. The volume ends with a detailed bibliography of Egyptian historical periods, archaeological sites, general topics such as pyramids, languages and arts and crafts and the publications of Egyptian material in museums throughout the world.

Tomb Families: Private Tomb Distribution in the New Kingdom Theban Necropolis

Tomb Families: Private Tomb Distribution in the New Kingdom Theban Necropolis
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781803270371
ISBN-13 : 1803270373
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Tomb Families: Private Tomb Distribution in the New Kingdom Theban Necropolis by : Katherine Slinger

Tomb Families investigates the apparently random distribution of New Kingdom private tombs in the Theban Necropolis by focusing on factors that may have influenced tomb location. This research provides a deeper understanding of the necropolis and how private tombs linked to the wider sacred landscape of Thebes.

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity
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Publisher : Oxbow Books
Total Pages : 816
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ISBN-10 : 9781789253283
ISBN-13 : 1789253284
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity by : Ralph Haussler

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.

Ritual Landscape and Performance

Ritual Landscape and Performance
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Publisher : Yale Egyptology
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781950343133
ISBN-13 : 1950343138
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Ritual Landscape and Performance by : Christina Geisen

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the peer-reviewed Egyptological contributions from the homonymous conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt.

Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom

Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781789698220
ISBN-13 : 1789698227
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Religious Practice and Cultural Construction of Animal Worship in Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom by : Angelo Colonna

This study presents an articulated historical interpretation of Egyptian ‘animal worship’ from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom, and offers a new understanding of its chronological development through a fresh review of pertinent archaeological and textual data.

Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt

Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781107032088
ISBN-13 : 1107032083
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt by : Giulio Magli

Most of the "wonders" of our ancient past have come down to us unencumbered by written information. In particular, this is the case of the Great Pyramid of Giza and of many other ancient Egyptian monuments. However, there is no doubt as to the interest of their builders in the celestial cycles: the "cosmic order" was indeed the true basis of the pharaoh's power. This book takes the reader on a chronological journey through ancient Egypt to explore the relationship between astronomy, landscape, and power during the most flourishing periods of ancient Egyptian civilization. Using the lens of archaeoastronomy, Giulio Magli reexamines the key monuments and turning points of Egyptian architecture and history, such as the solar deification of King Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, the Hatshepsut reign, and the Amarna revolution.