The Walking Dead At Saqqara

Read and Download Lara Weiss book The Walking Dead at Saqqara in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Walking Dead at Saqqara. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 282 pages. Book excerpt: Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second millennium BCE. By focussing on lived ancient religion, we can see that the social and religious strategies employed by the individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious, post-mortem salvation, nor is their self-representation simply intended to manifest social status. On the contrary, the religious practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide spectrum of options to configure sociality before and after one's own death. The analytical distinction between religion and other forms of human practices and sociality illuminates the range of cultural practices and how people selected, modified, or even avoided certain religious practices. As a result, pre-funerary, funerary and practices of the subsequent mortuary cults, in close connection with religious practices directed towards other ancestors and deities, allow the formation of imagined and functioning reminiscence clusters as central social groups at Saqqara, creating a heuristic model applicable also to other contexts.

Read and Download Giorgos Papantoniou book Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book THellenistic and Roman Terracottas. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 451 pages. Book excerpt: Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas is a collective volume presenting newly excavated material, as well as diverse and innovative approaches in the study the iconography, function and technology of ancient terracottas.

Read and Download Asuman Lätzer-Lasar book Urban Religion in Late Antiquity in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TUrban Religion in Late Antiquity. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 307 pages. Book excerpt: Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd–8th centuries CE).

Read and Download Huw Twiston Davies book The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses texts and images from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as well as other prayers and spells, found in tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara dating back to the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE). Drawing on an extensive corpus of data, it contributes striking new insights into the role of individual agency in ancient Egyptian funerary religion. Produced as part of the research project 'The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography', kindly funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the study focuses on the transmission of funerary texts and images in Egyptian tombs in order to show how each tomb was uniquely tailored to the tastes of its owners. This contrasts with the popular image of Egyptian religion as centrally administered and directed, and essentially unchanging over millennia. In fact, choices and forms of texts and images used in tombs changed even within a single generation, while particular arrangements of material unique to Saqqara during this period demonstrate a degree of local adaptation. In bringing together this information, the book argues powerfully for the human dimension in ancient Egyptian religion, and reveals the ways in which individuals and groups were continually reshaping their tradition even as they worked within it. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO): 276-30-016.

Read and Download Nico Staring book Perspectives on Lived Religion in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TPerspectives on Lived Religion. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page pages. Book excerpt: Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes.Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.

Read and Download Lara Weiss book Perspectives on Lived Religion II in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TPerspectives on Lived Religion II. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Book excerpt: Ancient Egyptian elites invested immense cultural and economic efforts in preparing for their afterlives. However, the diversity of choices open to them is often overlooked. These choices included tomb size, tomb location, and architectural design, as well as tomb decoration, and the selection of certain grave gifts. Their choices depended on financial means, but also on contemporary fashion, among other factors. Ancient sites were visited by the living to commemorate and rejuvenate human ancestors and the gods, as individual acts or as part of large-scale processions. They also visited cemeteries because of new building activities, or to visit already-ancient monuments. The daily interactions of the living with their ancestors and gods are traceable in the evidence of lived religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the processes which shaped the landscape. Older monuments and stories remained accessible, and the ongoing use of the site created a palimpsest landscape, showing the results of millennia of human activity. These results of past activities could hold special significance for later generations, but new meanings often supplanted older interpretations.Building on the success of Perspectives on Lived Religion, Perspective on Lived Religion II presents the results of a conference held in Cairo, September 29th - October 1st 2019, and kindly funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme, as part of the Leiden University research project "The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography". The papers presented here are written by both well-established and more recent Egyptologists, and examine examples of human agency at various sites in ancient Egypt, such as Saqqara, Thebes, Abydos, and Pi-Ramesse. These case studies examine which traditions were followed, disputed, and negotiated by whom and where in ancient Egypt, as well as discussing the modern perception of some of these traditions.

Read and Download Sue Davies book The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Book excerpt: The Falcon Complex and Catacomb of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara were discovered in 1969 and excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society expedition directed by W. B. Emery until his death in Cairo in March 1971. Fieldwork continued under the directorship of H S Smith (Field Director) and G T Martin (Site Director and was completed by 1976.

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Read and Download Miroslav Bárta book Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2000 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TAbusir and Saqqara in the Year 2000. This book was released on 2000 with total page 722 pages. Book excerpt: This collection of articles provides an overview, on the occasion of the Millennium, of Czech work at the Egyptian cemeteries of Abusir and Saqqara over the last 50 years. The contributions are grouped by period and range from studies of Early Dynastic sarcophagi to Coptic pottery.

Read and Download Lara Weiss book The Coffins of the Priests of Amon in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Coffins of the Priests of Amon. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 150 pages. Book excerpt: This edited volume focusses on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amon that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.

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Read and Download Hugh Honour book The Visual Arts in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Visual Arts. This book was released on 2000 with total page 940 pages. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the visual arts from prehistory through the end of the twentieth century, covering painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and photography, as well as an assortment of so-called minor arts.

Read and Download Carol Andrews book Amulets of Ancient Egypt in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TAmulets of Ancient Egypt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Book excerpt: Amulets were first made in Egypt as early as 4000 BC and became essential adornments for both the living and the dead. They were believed to endow the wearer, by magical means, with the properties they represent. An amuletic foot, for example, could be worn to ensure fleetness of foot; while the scarab beetle represented the new-born sun, and was the symbol of new life. Amulets in the image of powerful gods would be worn for protection; and malevolent creatures - like the male hippopotamus - would be worn to ward off the evil they represented.

Read and Download Hugh Honour book A World History of Art in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TA World History of Art. This book was released on 1999 with total page 936 pages. Book excerpt: First published in 1982. Winner of the Mitchell's prize for the History of Art.