Studies in ancient Egyptian funerary literature
Ancient 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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English French German |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Leuven Paris Bristol, CT
Peeters
2017
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| In: |
Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta (257)
Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature (2018) (Bojowald, Stefan)
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| Series/Journal: | Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta
257 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Coffin texts
/ Pyramid texts
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| IxTheo Classification: | BG World religions |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Conference program 2010 (Basel) |
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Table of Contents (Publisher) |
| Summary: | Ancient 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. 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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| Item Description: | The origin of the present compendium of contributions goes back to a meeting organised in 2010 at the University of Basel entitled "Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature. Trackling the Complexity of Texts". -- Seite XV |
| Physical Description: | XXI, 673 Seiten, Illustrationen, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 90-429-3462-X 978-90-429-3462-7 |
