Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology Books

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  • Harrassowitz Everything as One: A Linguistic View of the

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  • Harrassowitz The Enigma of the Hyksos Volume II: Transforming

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    £153.90

  • gypten Menschen Gtter Pharaonen

    Taschen GmbH gypten Menschen Gtter Pharaonen

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  • Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs

    Taschen GmbH Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs

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    Book SynopsisHow much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, the laborers, and the families that made up the vast majority of this much mythologized civilization? With a thrilling spread of visual references, this TASCHEN adventure attempts to set the record straight by offering a distinctive everyday take on Ancient Egypt. Like a piece of published excavation, the book explores the many layers of this ancient society, digging down from the sacred or grandiose to the daily experiences and ordinary individuals. The democratic approach bestows this distant era with exciting vitality and relevance for all the family. As we explore everything from family arrangements to leisure activities to labor movements, we not only uncover the different experiences of this ancient land but also parallels and precedents to our own societies. The result is a particularly vivid encounter with an ancient age and with some of our most ingenious and influential forebears.

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  • Peeters Publishers Ancient Egyptian Demonology: Studies on the

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    Book SynopsisIn the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian equivalents do not carry the pejorative connotations borne by the modern terms and their Greek antecedents; magic and demons can be forces for good as well as evil. Indeed, the practice of magic and the conceptualisation of personified demonic agents are central to the Egyptian understanding of the workings of the world from the very continuation of the cosmos itself down to the vicissitudes of existence faced by individuals. In particular, the broader practice of magic and articulation of the involvement of demonic agency form one of the crucial links in Ancient Egypt between individual existence on the human level and the level of nature or the cosmos, the realm of the gods. Unlike, though, the explicit recognition of the term demon in the ancient Greek language and religion, as the intermediary between god and mortals, the majority of the demonic names in the Egyptian literature do not possess an apparent ontological essence, or a clearly defined denotation. Their characteristics and role depended momentously on the verbal and performative ritual environment they were part of. The relation between the name of a demon and its cosmic-natural personification is not contradictory as it may seem, but it is closely interwoven in a well established ritual framework of words and actions.This multi-authored volume of 10 essays comprises an up-to-date authorized account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology, including the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, nightmares and underworld demons, dream rituals and magic, categories of demonic entities and the vague distinction between the divine and the demonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, the theological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic, and demons as reflections of human society. Contributors include Paul John Frandsen, Hedvig Gyory, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Yvan Koenig, Panagiotis Kousoulis, Alan Lloyd, Robert Ritner, Alessandro Roccati, Kasia Szpakowska and Penelope Wilson.

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    £74.00

  • Peeters Publishers Dendara XV. Traduction: Le Pronaos Du Temple

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    Book SynopsisDans la collection des OLA, la traduction des textes de Dendara se poursuit regulierement depuis 1997 (Dendara I, II, III, IV, V, VI, XIII, XIV, XV, Temple d'Isis); deux volumes de commentaires y ont ete egalement publies: Fetes d'Hathor et Temple d'Isis).Avec la traduction des textes du pronaos du temple d'Hathor (Dendara XIII, XIV, XV), l'auteur a prefere rompre avec l'ordre "normal" pour faire connaitre au plus vite la teneur de textes remarquables inconnus du monde scientifique (publies sur internet - www.dendara.net). Les trois ouvrages sont pourvus de nombreuses photos inedites. Le commentaire des textes de Dendara XIII-XIV-XV et l'analyse de la decoration du pronaos seront publies en 2013, egalement dans les OLA.

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    £96.00

  • Peeters Publishers Offerings to the Gods in Egyptian Temples

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    Book SynopsisThis splendidly illustrated book serves as a dictionary of the many different types of offerings to the gods depicted in Egyptian funerary reliefs, as well as their ritual context and symbolic meaning. Over 200 offerings are divided into broad categories: purification, beverages, foods, produce from the fields, fabircs, ointments, jewellery, rituals for goddesses and gods, symbolic, cosmic, funerary and defensive rituals and royal cult rituals.

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    £38.00

  • Peeters Publishers Dendara. Le Pronaos Du Temple D'Hathor: Analyse

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    Book SynopsisLes trois volumes de traduction du pronaos (Dendara XIII, XIV, XV) font l'objet d'une analyse philologique et religieuse. Tous les textes de Dendara (temple d'Hathor, temple d'Isis, portes d'Hathor et d'Isis, mammisis) sont transcrits sur ordinateur. A l'aide de cette incomparable banque de donnees, il est aise d'analyser la redaction des textes du pronaos, notamment dans ce qu'ils ont d'innovant. Les principes de decoration et la theologie sont commentes a la lumiere de 5000 pages de textes hieroglyphiques.

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    £110.00

  • Peeters Publishers Philae: Itineraire Du Visiteur

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    Book SynopsisComme elle est belle, cette ville apparue au sein des eaux! Elle existe depuis le commencement, alors que la terre etait dans la nuit et les tenebres. Elle est un havre quand on vient du sud, une rade quand on vient du nord. Cette phrase, vieille de deux millenaires, pourrait etre ecrite aujourd'hui, et de fait temps et espace sont suspendus pour quiconque voit surgir Philae au milieu des eaux miroitantes sous le soleil. Philae, bout du monde pour les Egyptiens et les Grecs anciens, est le point de rencontre culturel des civilisations mediterraneennes et des Nubiens venus des profondeurs de l'Afrique. Les tableaux qui decorent ses temples refletent cette position strategique de l'Ile des temps anciens: les dieux de Nubie, de Philae meme, d'Elephantine cotoient, en s'y indentifiant parfois, ceux des metropoles religieuses de l'Egypte. Le mythe de l'eternel retour d'Osiris et de la crue du Nil donne son harmonieuse coherence a cette synthese theologique. Une promenade dans cet ecrin lumineux, tout different des grands sanctuaires a la masse ecrasante et austere, fait retrouver l'enchantement qu'exprime un visiteur contemporain des Ptolemees et des Cesars: Celui qui a adore l'Isis de Philae a un sort heureux, non pas seulement parce qu'il devient riche, mais parce qu'en meme temps il obtient une longue vie. Nombreux en effet sont ceux qui ont foule le sol sacre; ils ont immortalise leur presence et leur ferveur en hieroglyphes, en demotique, en grec, en latin, en copte, en arabe - en francais aussi, tels les braves de Bonaparte, et meme en italien avec les envoyes du pape de Rome.

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  • Peeters Publishers Histoire, Geographie Et Religion De L'Egypte

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    Book SynopsisCet ouvrage reunit quarante-sept etudes du professeur Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) dont un certain nombre de travaux publies dans des revues non egyptologiques ainsi que les comptes rendus de ses cours de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, ou il enseigna comme Directeur d'etudes de 1964 a 1991 et du College de France ou il fut professeur de 1991 a 1997. Les articles reedites ici sont ceux que Jean Yoyotte avait choisis. Republies de maniere uniforme et indexes, afin d'en rendre l'usage plus commode, ils traitent pour la plupart de questions relatives a la pensee religieuse, a la geographie et a l'histoire de l'Egypte ancienne, qui, quoiqu'il s'interessa a tous les aspects de la societe egyptienne ancienne, constituent neanmoins ses sujets de recherche privilegies. Cette somme qui temoigne tant de son immense erudition et de ses multiples curiosites qu'elle revele l'enseignant hors pair qu'il etait, s'adresse tout autant aux egyptologues qu'aux specialistes des cultures du Proche-Orient ancien et du monde hellenistique et romain.

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    £95.00

  • Peeters Publishers The First Pylon of the Mut Temple, South Karnak:

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    Book SynopsisThe goddess Mut, consort of Amun-Re at Thebes, is one of the goddesses known as the "Eye of Re" that include Isis, Hathor and Bastet among others. Her temple precinct in South Karnak was a major religious site from at least the early New Kingdom through the early Roman Period, yet Mut remains relatively unknown. While badly damaged, the gate in the Mut Temple's First Pylon bears important religious texts relating to the goddess and her cult as well as remains of Ramesside scenes recarved in the Ptolemaic Period. This study of the gateway and its texts, edited by R.A. Fazzini and J. van Dijk, includes a description of the gateway's architecture (W.H. Peck), a detailed study of the figural decoration (R.A. Fazzini) and transcriptions, translations and analyses of the inscriptions (J.-C. Goyon, J. van Dijk, H. te Velde). Two appendices deal with the recarved Ramesside texts (J. van Dijk) and aspects of the goddess (J.-C. Goyon).

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    £96.00

  • Peeters Publishers La Vallée des Rois: Itinéraire du visiteur

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    Book SynopsisLes Pyramides, prodigieux monuments défiant le temps et l'espace des hauteurs, témoignent devant l'univers de l'existence immuable du vieux pays; le pharaon, protégé par la pierre souveraine, gagne l'infini du ciel et repose parmi les astres. Les tombes de la Vallée des Rois sont en quelque sorte des pyramides inversées que le souverain parcourt et où il séjourne, seul spectateur initié de ces images mystérieuses - grandioses ou terrifiantes - qui jalonnent l'espace souterrain. Les hypogées royaux, conservatoire de la quintessence théologique et astronomique égyptienne, transmettent leur message en une débauche de couleurs qui, plus encore que les hiéroglyphes finement ciselés ou les silhouettes artistement esquissées, donnent accès à l'ineffable. Le pharaon quitte le séjour des vivants pour un lieu où règne en maître le disque rouge du Soleil de la nuit, nimbé d'une lumière d'or qui anime dieux et génies. L'espace de quelques heures, il n'est plus l'astre de la vie terrestre; il plonge dans le monde minéral des morts et ressurgit dans celui, végétal, des vivants. Il est conduit vers l'éternité dans l'intégrité de son corps; il perpétue alors non seulement son nom et sa dynastie, mais aussi la marche du monde. Le pharaon a pénétré le Grand Mystère, celui de la Première Fois, lors duquel l'astre igné et le limon fécondateur fusionnent et engendrent la divinité: dans l'Autre-Monde, en un cycle quotidiennement répété, Rê incandescent ranime Osiris léthargique et Osiris redressé exhausse des profondeurs l'autre face de l' me double, Rê de feu.

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  • Peeters Publishers Le Zodiaque d'Osiris. Le Zodiaque de Dendara au

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    Book SynopsisPièce unique du Département des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du Louvre, le célèbre Zodiaque de Dendara fait l'objet de la curiosité de tous depuis que, avec l'accord de Méhémet Ali, il a été transféré en France en 1821. Inséré dans le plafond d'une des chapelles consacrées à la résurrection d'Osiris, il représente une carte du ciel dont la science astronomique moderne nous montre la remarquable justesse: les savants qui ont conçu, entre juin et août 50 av. J.-C., cet extraordinaire témoignage de leurs connaissances situent Sirius, Vénus ou Canope aussi précisément que les éclipses de la Lune et du Soleil. La «performance» est d'autant plus remarquable que cette configuration céleste rarissime (qui ne se reproduit que tous les millénaires et demi) coïncide volontairement avec l'inauguration des lieux où se déroule le mystère même de la renaissance divine, le 28 décembre 47, lors d'une Pleine Lune zénithale.

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  • Peeters Publishers Die Variation der Tradition: Modalitäten der

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    Book SynopsisRituale gelten als zutiefst traditionell. Sie bewahren gesellschaftliche Strukturen, Mythen und überkommene Handlungsmuster oft auch dann noch, wenn deren ursprünglicher Sinn schon längst abhanden gekommen ist. Gerade in Ägypten, wo mythenbezogene Ritualsprüche über Jahrtausende überliefert wurden, ist dies nur allzu greifbar. Gleichzeitig ist aber auch bekannt, daß Rituale erfahrungsgesättigte, performative und kommunikative Ereignisse darstellen, die stetig verändert und an sich wandelnde Kontextfaktoren angepaßt werden. Dies spiegelt sich nicht nur im Umgang mit den Ritualpräskripten und im Rahmen ihrer redaktionellen Bearbeitung in der Antike, sondern auch im archäologischen Befund wider. Insbesondere in den Nekropolen zeugen die jeweilige Anlage der Gräber, ihr Dekorationsprogramm sowie eine Vielzahl von materiellen Hinterlassenschaften, die in direktem Zusammenhang mit dem Kultvollzug vor Ort standen, von der Adaption und Modifikation althergebrachter Rituale. Die Beiträge der Heidelberger Tagungsakten suchen diesen besonderen Umständen Rechnung zu tragen und untersuchen den Umgang der Alten Ägypter mit ihren Ritualen dezidiert unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Veränderung. Dabei greifen die philologische und die archäologische Fachexpertise ineinander.

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  • Peeters Publishers Dendara. Harsomtous

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    Book SynopsisHarsomtous est la seule divinité qui, à Dendara, soit figurée sous trois formes absolument différentes et cependant complémentaires: serpent, faucon, homme. Le serpent des origines s'adjoint bientôt le faucon maître des immensités célestes; également devenu homme, Harsomtous englobe naturellement la royauté terrestre dans le champ de sa souveraineté. Le faucon est un incarnation d'Horus, ses yeux représentant le soleil et la lune, il domine le sud et le nord, l'orient et l'occident. À Dendara où est exaltée la primauté féminine, cette royauté pluri-millénaire dont atteste le Roi-Serpent passe toutefois au deuxième plan. Somtous, «l'unificateur du pays», apparaît dès l'Ancien Empire pour présider à cette fusion du Delta et de la Vallée qui constituera l'objectif politique récurrent des maîtres du pays du Nil. Cependant, sa première représentation humaine n'apparaît que sous Montouhotep, un souverain qui a contribué plus qu'un autre à unir les Deux Terres.

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  • Peeters Publishers Religious Practice at Deir el-Medina

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    Book SynopsisWith few exceptions, previous research on so-called personal religion has focused on hymns preserved on stelae from Deir el-Medina. Whereas their significance as testimony of personal choice and religious belief should not be excluded, the stelae must be understood in their communal cultic context. In order to grasp individual religious practices this book seeks to broaden the scope of analysis and include the archaeological remains from the houses at Deir el-Medina. Instead of establishing individual relationships between the human and divine, it appeared that 'personal' religion sought to preserve and maintain family continuity. The ancient Egyptian concept of the continuous cycle of creation was thus appropriated at home. Whereas the king guaranteed the order of the cosmos by giving offerings to the gods in the temples, corresponding activities were performed for the well-being of the family at home.

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  • Peeters Publishers Dendara: Itinéraire du visiteur

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    Book SynopsisLe site de Dendara, avec ses temples et ses dépendences, est un des plus beaux et des mieux préservés de l'Égypte entière. L'Itinéraire en décrit tous les édifices en insistant particulièrement sur les plafonds étoilés à sujet astronomique, l'ensemble osirien - unique dans le pays - et des multiples rituels représentés, en hiéroglyphes et en images, sur les parois. Celles-ci viennent d'être restaurées par le Service des antiquités de l'Égypte et les somptueuses couleurs du passé revivent; quelque trois cents photos rendent compte de cette splendeur retrouvée.

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  • Peeters Publishers Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

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    Book SynopsisAncient Egyptian funerary literature encompasses a complex, dynamic, and open group of texts and images selected to be deposited in mortuary settings. Despite this shared final purpose, they derive from a variety of spheres of origin (ritual, apotropaic, medical, legal) and can be concurrently used in different contexts. They further exhibit a semantic density and were transmitted across the centuries, and subjected to modifications as they were incorporated into new social, religious, or functional environments. The twenty contributions assembled in this volume have the three-fold objective of: offering new theoretical and methodological perspectives to evaluate the structure, content, and history of these compositions; opening challenging avenues for new interpretations; or presenting novel textual and iconographic sources. With a wide chronological spectrum of topics addressed, the manifold approaches collected here aim to challenge traditional conceptions and procedures of analysis and to introduce new sets of ideas.

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    £105.00

  • Peeters Publishers Le temple égyptien et ses dieux: Philae - Kom

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    Book SynopsisPhilae, Kom Ombo, Edfou, Esna et Dendara sont les temples de la période gréco-romaine (entre 300 av. J.-C. et 300 ap. J.-C.) les plus visités. Leurs parois sont couverts de textes, contrairement aux prestigieux sanctuaires de Karnak, de Médinet Habou ou d'Abydos, et fournissent les clefs interprétatives de ces derniers. Les hiérogrammates de Ptolémée ou de César ont transmis cette exégèse en exploitant des archives millénaires et en poussant à ses limites extrêmes les possibilités quasi infinies de l'écriture hiéroglyphique. Les monuments religieux égyptiens tardifs ne seraient que d'assez lourdes masses de pierre s'ils n'entretenaient pas, par leur décor et leurs textes, le souvenir du pharaon-dieu qui, fort de sa légitimité et grâce à sa double nature - divine et humaine -, perpétue la vie dans le vieux pays. Le populaire était certes convié, en quelques rares occasions, à manifester sa piété à la fois profonde et naïvement triviale; la splendeur de la conception intellectuelle, où le divin est exalté de manière érudite sur des murs porteurs de l'écriture la plus subtilement suggestive, constitue cependant l'apanage exclusif des «initiés dans le temple».

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  • Peeters Publishers Die Särge des Karenen: Untersuchungen zu

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    Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie behandelt das Sargensemble (Cairo JdE 39054a&b; Sq6C/Sq5C) des 'Sieglers? des Königs von Unterägypten' Karenen aus seiner Bestattung des frühen Mittleren Reiches in Saqqara. Sie gibt Einblick in die Traditionen der Sargdekoration dieser Region sowie die Bedeutung des Großraums Saqqara als Überlieferungsort funerärer Texte. Die Untersuchung der Pyramidentexte und Sargtexte in den Särgen des Karenen setzt sich zum Ziel, die Särge in ihrer räumlichen Gesamtheit sowie dem Zusammenspiel von bildlicher und schriftlicher Dekoration zu analysieren. Die Grundlage dafür bilden detaillierte Betrachtungen der einzelnen Bestandteile sowie darauf aufbauende übergreifende Ausführungen. Viele der Sargtexte wurden bislang kaum oder gar nicht bearbeitet und liefern somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung dieser Textgruppe. Alle Texte werden philologisch kommentiert und inhaltlich analysiert. Ebenfalls betrachtet werden die formalen Strukturen, insbesondere das Verhältnis des Verstorben zu anderen genannten Personen sowie Verbindungen zu zugehörigen Ritualen. Durch ihre Ergebnisse liefert diese Einzelstudie eines individuellen Sargensembles darüber hinaus einen Beitrag zur Erforschung der altägyptischen Kultur des Mittleren Reiches.

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    £133.12

  • Peeters Publishers Dendara. Les cent couronnes du pharaon

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  • Peeters Publishers The Greenfield Papyrus: Funerary Papyrus of a

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    Book SynopsisThe Greenfield Papyrus (P. BM EA 10554), at more than 37m in length, is the longest funerary papyrus surviving from ancient Egypt. Its content is highly original because it combines spells from the Book of the Dead with a “mythological” section, as well as with hymns and litanies stemming from the context of temple liturgies. Furthermore, the selection of spells from the Book of the Dead provides very important insights into the Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BCE). The Greenfield Papyrus is also of central importance to an understanding of the evolution of the Book of the Dead, after the New Kingdom (1539-1069 BCE) and before the Late and Ptolemaic Periods (664-30 BCE). The owner of the papyrus, Nestanebetisheru, occupied a very important position as priestess in the temples of Karnak. Since this role probably gave her access to temple archives, she may have selected the texts of her papyrus herself.

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    £195.00

  • Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) The Vignettes of the Book of the Dead of

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    Book SynopsisThe present volume is an inquiry into the illustrations found with practically every spell in the Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet, a sculptor from Deir el-Medîna who lived in the early nineteenth dynasty. After an attempt to recover the correct relation to the accompanying text, each vignette of the papyrus Neferrenpet is compared with parallels in older, contemporaneous and younger documents in order to establish the specific position of this Book of the Dead in the iconographical development as it becomes manifest in this type of funerary literature. The Brussels part of the papyrus, published by Louis Speleers in 1917, could be complemented with a hitherto unpublished Book of the Dead from the University Museum in Philadelphia. Neferrenpet's Book of the Dead (as far as preserved now) is photographically reconstituted on 42 plates. The extant sheets of a duplicate papyrus in the British Museum follow on six additional plates.

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    £52.25

  • Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt

    The American University in Cairo Press Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt

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    Book SynopsisRobert Armour's classic text, long cherished by a generation of readers, is now complemented with more than 50 new photographs and line drawings that show the gods and goddesses in their characteristic forms. Armour maintains a strong narrative thread with illuminating commentary in his lively, vigorous retelling of stories from Egyptian mythology, including those of the sun god Ra, the tragic death and rebirth of Osiris with the help of Isis, the near-burlesque of Horus' battle with the evil Seth, and the "gods of the intellect" Thoth and Maat. Now with an updated bibliography and glossary as well as new charts showing the gods at a glance and ancient Egyptian chronology in brief, this book is sure to inform and enchant a new generation of readers.

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  • From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and

    The American University in Cairo Press From Akhenaten to Moses: Ancient Egypt and

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    Book SynopsisThe shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one.The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.Trade Review"Will appeal to readers who enjoy exploring the world of ideas and the ways in which such ideas have shaped societies for both good and ill."—Ancient Egypt"A seminal work of truly impressive scholarship. An exceptionally well written, organized, and presented study that is enhanced with the inclusion of eighteen pages of Notes and a comprehensive Index, this seminal work is very highly recommended for academic library collections and the supplemental studies reading lists for students of Egyptian antiquity."—Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsChapter 1: Structure and Change in Ancient Egyptian ReligionCultTheologyThe Guidance of LifeChapter 2: Myth and History of the Exodus: Triumph and TraumaThe Mnemohistory of the ExodusNarrative StructureRemember the ExodusThe Seder LiturgyExodus and UtopiaChapter 3: From Poly- to Monotheism: Evolution or RevolutionEvolution in Nature and CultureFrom Monolatry to MonotheismEgypt and Religious ChangeChapter 4: Moses and Akhenaten: Memory and HistoryMoses and AkhenatenAkhenatenThe Egyptian TraumaThe Legend of the ‘Lepers’The Reinterpretation of the PyramidsExodus and TraumaChapter 5: Ancient Egypt and the Theory of the Axial AgeThe Theory of the Axial AgeWriting as an Agent of ChangeLiteracy and Cultural MemorySecondary Canonization and the Rise of ExegesisChapter 6: Egyptian Mysteries and Secret Societies in the Age of EnlightenmentThe ‘Mystery Fever’ in the Late Eighteenth CenturyThe Imagined ‘Egyptian Mysteries’ and their Grammatological and Topological BasisThe Magic Flute and the Egyptian MysteriesChapter 7: Total Religion: Politics, Monotheism, and ViolenceThe Concept of ErnstfallThe Religious ErnstfallThe Maccabean Wars: An Early Case of Religious ViolenceDepoliticizing Religion

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    £14.99

  • Resurrection in Alexandria: The Painted

    The American University in Cairo Press Resurrection in Alexandria: The Painted

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    Book SynopsisIn the Greco-Roman catacombs of Alexandria, uniquely decorated tombs from the time when religious boundaries blurred and syncretistic beliefs flourished have long been known. But it was only in 1993 that researchers discovered faint traces of paintings on walls previously thought to be blank, or underneath other painted scenes: the hidden scenes could be partly made out and photographed using ultraviolet light. Then in 2012, new computer technology was used to reveal the lost images and colors even more clearly.Here the team present, examine, and interpret what they found, teasing meaning and intent from the alternating scenes of Greek and Egyptian mythology, as employed by the citizens of a multicultural Alexandria at the beginning of the second century CE, in pursuit of a happy afterlife.

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    £33.25

  • Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb

    The American University in Cairo Press Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb

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    Book SynopsisThe ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with complex security arrangements. Much of this development was arguably driven by the ever-present threat of tomb robbery, which compelled tomb builders to introduce special architectural measures to prevent it. However, until now most scholarly Egyptological discussions of tomb security have tended to be brief and usually included only as part of a larger work, the topic instead being the subject of lurid speculation and fantasy in novels, the popular press, and cinema. In Securing Eternity, Reg Clark traces in detail the development of the Egyptian royal and private tombs from the Predynastic Period to the early Fourth Dynasty. In doing so, he demonstrates that many of the familiar architectural elements of the Egyptian tomb that we take for granted today in fact originated from security features to protect the tomb, rather than from monumental or religious considerations. Richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs and tomb plans, this unique study will be of interest to students, specialists, and general readers alike.Trade ReviewThe author has assembled an impressive collection of material which reveals the incredible ingenuity and planning which the builders employed ... [This] will fascinate anyone interested in the thought processes of both those responsible for constructing early tombs. * Ancient Egypt *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Abbreviations and Conventions Maps 1. The Purpose and Context of the Egyptian Tomb and the Need for It to Be Secure 2. Securing the Early Tomb: Prehistory to the End of the Predynastic Period 3. Defending the Pit Tomb: From Egypt’s Unification to the Mid First Dynasty 4. Portals, Passages, and Portcullises: The Second Half of the First Dynasty 5. Subterranean Sepulchers: New Security Developments in the Second Dynasty 6. A Parting of the Ways: Step Pyramids and Mastabas in the Third Dynasty 7. Pyramids and Plug-Stones: Security Innovations in the Early Fourth Dynasty 8. Conclusion Chronology Notes Bibliography Index

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  • Guide to the Nubian Monuments on Lake Nasser

    The American University in Cairo Press Guide to the Nubian Monuments on Lake Nasser

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    Book SynopsisFour areas in Southern Egypt, around Lake Nasser, now contain ancient monuments that were reconstructed and moved from their original positions during the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s: Abu Simbel, New Amada, New Wadi al-Sebua and New Kalabsha. This guide provides an introduction to the history and culture of Nubia during the pharaonic period. It describes each monument in detail, highlighting its history, religion and art. Also included are a short bibliography and brief descriptions of the four temples that were transported and reconstructed abroad - the most notable now residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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