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Author | : Lara Weiss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9789088904943 |
Download The Coffins of the Priests of Amun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics
Author | : Gyula Priskin |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789691990 |
Download The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Moon: Coffin Texts Spells 154–160 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book proposes that Coffin Texts spells 154–160, recorded at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, form the oldest composition about the moon in ancient Egypt and, indeed, the world. Based on a new translation, the detailed analysis of these spells reveals that they provide a chronologically ordered account of the phenomena of a lunar month.
Author | : Julie Dawson |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785709180 |
Download Ancient Egyptian Coffins Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Major new multi-disciplinary collection of papers focusing on the development of the coffin in ancient Egypt and the belief systems behind funerary practices involving their use and on new methods and applications of scientific techniques for the analysis of construction, materials and craftmanship involved in coffin manufacture and reworking.
Author | : Rogerio Sousa |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789252652 |
Download Gilded Flesh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Egyptian coffins stand out in museum collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As a container of the mummy, coffins played a key role by protecting the body and, at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For more than three thousand years, coffins and tombs had been designed to assure in the most efficient way possible a successful outcome for the difficult transition to the afterlife. This book examines eight non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. These almost undisturbed burial sites managed to escape ancient looters and so their discoveries, from Mariette’s exploration of the Mastaba of Ti in Saqqara to Schiaparelli’s discovery of the Tomb of Kha and Merit in Deir el-Medina, were sensational events in Egyptian archaeology. Each one of these sites unveils before our eyes a time capsule, where coffins and tombs were designed together as part of a social, political and religious order. From Predynastic times to the decline of the New Kingdom, this book explores each site revealing the interconnection between mummification practices, coffin decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual landscapes. Through this analysis, the author aims to point out how the design of coffins changed through time in order to empower the deceased with different visions of immortality. By doing so, the study of coffins reveals a silent revolution which managed to open to ordinary men and women horizons of divinity previously reserved for the royal sphere. Coffins thus show us how identity was forged to create an immortal and divine self.
Author | : Jane Jakeman |
Publisher | : Berkley |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425205419 |
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"Autumn, 1830. Lilian Westmorland, the spirited young heiress to an estate in England's West Country, has only narrowly survived a devastating riding accident. Her guardian thinks it best that she travel to Egypt, where the warm climate might help her recover." "But Lord Ambrose Malfine fears that Egypt may bring further calamity to his young neighbor Lilian, the daughter of his late friend. After her departure, he hears of strange things happening one after another, including the death of a little girl. Compelled to rescue Lilian from danger, Ambrose races to Egypt, where, among Cairo's labyrinthine streets, he uncovers unspeakable evil."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Kathlyn M. Cooney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108910831 |
Download Coffin Commerce Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather simple Egyptian object type – the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and, briefly, to its possible reuse.
Author | : Horton Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Download A Coffin in Egypt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Raymond Oliver Faulkner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780856687549 |
Download The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, these writings were intended to supply the deceased with the speeches he would need to achieve a secure and important position in the next world. As such they supply valuable insights into Egyptian beliefs and mortuary practices. Concise textual notes are kept to a minimum, allowing the character of the texts to be experienced as a whole. Indexes cover divinities, localities, celestial bodies, selected Egyptian words in translation and also the parts of boats and sailing gear that figure prominently in some spells.
Author | : Rita E. Freed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Text by Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman, Denise M. Doxey, Nicholas Picardo.
Author | : Rune Nyord |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Coffin texts |
ISBN | : 8763526050 |
Download Breathing Flesh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts form a corpus of ritual spells written on the inside of coffins from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1650 BCE). Thus accompanying the deceased in a very concrete sense, the spells are part of a long Egyptian tradition of equipping the dead with ritual texts ensuring the transition from the state of a living human being to that of a deceased ancestor. The texts present a view of death as entailing threats to the function of the body, often conceptualised as bodily fragmentation or dysfunction. In the transformation of the deceased, the restoration of these bodily dysfunctions is of paramount importance, and the texts provide detailed accounts of the ritual empowerment of the body to achieve this goal. Seen from this perspective, the Coffin Texts provide a rich material for studying ancient Egyptian conceptions of the body by providing insights into the underlying structure of the body as a whole and the proper function of individual part of the body as seen by the ancient Egyptians. Drawing on a theoretical framework from cognitive linguistics and phenomenological anthropology, Breathing Flesh presents an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and its individual parts in the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. From this starting point, more overarching concepts and cultural models are discussed, including the ritual conceptualisation of the acquisition and use of powerful substances such as "magic", and the role of fertility and procreation in ancient Egyptian mortuary conceptions.