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...
| Altri autori: | ; |
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese Francese Tedesco |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Pubblicazione: |
Leuven Paris Bristol, CT
Peeters
2017
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| In: |
Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta (257)
Anno: 2017 |
| Recensioni: | Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature (2018) (Bojowald, Stefan)
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| Periodico/Rivista: | Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta
257 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Egitto (Antichità <epoca>)
/ Testi dei sarcofagi
/ Pyramidentexte
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | BG Religioni maggioritarie |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Raccolta di saggi
B Atti del convengo 2010 (Basel) |
| Accesso online: |
Table of Contents (Publisher) |
| Riepilogo: | 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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| Descrizione del documento: | 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 |
| Descrizione fisica: | XXI, 673 Seiten, Illustrationen, Pläne |
| ISBN: | 90-429-3462-X 978-90-429-3462-7 |
