Zur räumlichen Dimension von „Divine Access”: Eine Verteilungsanalyse der Felsinschriften des Neuen Reiches auf Sehel
Methods of landscape archaeology as tools for analysing interactions between rock inscriptions and their surrounding environment are a crucial means towards the understanding of people's motifs, beliefs, and intentions that caused them to leave their mark at a specific place. It is well-known t...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
Year: 2022, Volume: 78, Pages: 173-195 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Sehel
/ Landscape development
/ Settlement archeology
/ Petroglyph
/ Epigraphy
/ History 1552 BC-1070 BC
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| IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Epigraphy
B First Cataract B GIS analyses B rock inscriptions B Sehel |
| Summary: | Methods of landscape archaeology as tools for analysing interactions between rock inscriptions and their surrounding environment are a crucial means towards the understanding of people's motifs, beliefs, and intentions that caused them to leave their mark at a specific place. It is well-known that rock inscriptions transport a multidimensional perception to their audience, human and divine, which relates their content and functionality to the physical space in which they are placed, shaping and (re)defining the landscape. The question of an underlying spatial hierarchy influencing their distribution as part of the concept of decorum has not been investigated properly so far. On Sehel Island in the region of the First Cataract, the high amount of New Kingdom rock inscriptions allowed for a study of this issue on a microscale level. By using prosopography and GIS analyses, the distributive development of 292 18th-20th Dynasty private inscriptions has been examined from an administrative and a socio-hierarchical perspective, revealing that at this sacred site the proximity of inscriptions to the estimated location of the Anukis sanctuary had been affected by the social status of their owners, but was especially a privilege of local Ramesside Period temple administration. Thus, the development of their spatial distribution throughout the New Kingdom reflects changes in divine access as a significant aspect of decorum. These changes are also visible within the composition of the inscriptions and can be compared to other contemporary media of similar function, such as private votive statues and stelae in other temple contexts. |
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| Physical Description: | Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme |
| ISSN: | 0342-1279 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
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