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Religious practice and cultural construction of animal worship in Egypt from the early Dynastic to the New Kingdom : ritual forms, material display, historical development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Preface and Acknowledgements ; 1. Introducing Animal Worship ; Animal worship and ancient Egyptian religion: articulation of the problem ; Thesis, goals, and limitations of the present study ; History of research and status quaestionis ; Theory and methodology ; Presenting the Evidence ; 2. The Early Dynastic ; Royal evidence ; Titles and personal names ; The Classical tradition ; Summary ; 3. The Old Kingdom ; Royal and temple evidence ; Private inscriptions: titles and biographies ; Personal names ; Funerary domains ; Pyramid Texts ; Architectural evidence ; Summary ; 4. From the First Intermediate Period to the Middle Kingdom ; Titles ; Private inscriptions ; Personal names ; Coffin Texts ; Summary ; 5. The New Kingdom ; The Apis bull at Memphis ; The Mnevis bull at Heliopolis ; The 'Fish-stelae' from Mendes ; The fish necropolis at Gurob ; The 'Salakhana Trove' at Asyut ; Bulls in the Theban region ; The 'Crocodile-stelae' from Sumenu ; The inscribed jar fragment Munich Ä 1383 ; Synthesis and Reconstruction ; 6. Modelling Animal Worship ; Introduction: etic and emic ; The etic perspective: single and multiple animals ; The emic perspective: Egyptian concepts and modes of predication ; The sacralisation of the animals: a ritual and semantic process ; Reconfiguring 'animal worship': practice, display, history ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Index.