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The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom
In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into the Theban necropolis is provided, including the position played by the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery within the Theban funerary context understood as an inseparable complex of diverse components. For this study, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras has reconciled textual and archaeological perspectives with theories relating to Landscape Archaeology, which efficiently manages to compile and to link prosopographical-genealogical, archaeological and GIS (Geographical Information System) data.
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second millennium BCE. By focussing on lived ancient religion, we can see that the social and religious strategies employed by the individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious, post-mortem salvation, nor is their self-representation simply intended to manifest social status. On the contrary, the religious practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide spectrum of options to configure sociality before and a...
Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond
This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.
A Prosopographic Study of the New Kingdom Tomb Owners of Dra Abu el-Naga
Containing the dating, kinship data and titles for each tomb owner of 54 tombs located in the southern area of the Theban cemetery of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, this book will prove of great assistance as a handbook or catalogue for research on New Kingdom Dra Abu el-Naga or the study of prosopography and kinship relationships.
Women in Ancient Egypt
Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient Egypt There has been considerable scholarship in the last fifty years on the role of ancient Egyptian women in society. With their ability to work outside the home, inherit and dispense of property, initiate divorce, testify in court, and serve in local government, Egyptian women exercised more legal rights and economic independence than their counterparts throughout antiquity. Yet, their agency and autonomy are often downplayed, undermined, or outright ignored. In Women in Ancient Egypt twenty-four international scholars offer a corrective to this view by presenting the lates...
Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Band 49
Inhalt: - Cecilia Benavente: "Lost Art" aus Leontopolis (Tell el-Moqdam): Die Sammlung Fouquet. Die Provenienz der Statue von Amun und Mut (Walters Art Museum 22.65) - Margaritta Danilova: La stèle inédite de l'enfant du kȝp Sobekemheb de la XVIIIe dynastie au Museu Egipci de Barcelona (E-282) - Erhart Graefe: Über die graphische Positionierung von Zeichen wie dem für die Göttin Maat in Königsnamen (mit einem Exkurs: Der "Maat" enthaltende Königsname als Ritual"gegenstand") - Martin Hartlapp: Über die Entdeckung und Erforschung Tell el-Amarnas im 18. Jahrhundert bis zum Vorabend des 1. Weltkrieges - John M. Iskander, Ahmed Said Nasef: Denkstein des Königs Amenophis II. aus der Oase...
Ancient Egypt in Video Games
This volume is the first to focus on the presentation of Ancient Egypt in video games. The contributions examine diverse topics concerning how Egyptian history, culture, monuments, and the land itself are portrayed across a diverse range of game genres. Over forty years of video games are analysed, including those from well-known franchises (Assassin’s Creed; Tomb Raider), as well as those from independent developers. The games studied employ Ancient Egypt in different ways, as the main historical setting of the game, as the inspiration for the game’s world, or as a point of reference for specific aspects of the game. Contributions by game designers from Oneiric Studios also reveal the motivations for using Egypt as the source for their game design and narrative (Path of Ra). The number of games discussed in this volume and their diversity demonstrates the important role that games play in shaping the popular imagination of Ancient Egypt.
Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt
Uses primary evidence to ask anthropological questions about kinship and families in ancient Egyptian society.
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions
Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters look into the question of chance versus determinism in the unfolding of historical events, the role individuals play in shaping a society or occasion, and the way art and literature symbolise important messages in counterfactual histories. They also show how uchronic narratives can take advantage of modern literary techniques to reveal new and relevant aspects of the past, giving voices to marginalised minorities and s...
El servidor del ka en el Reino Antiguo
El presente trabajo aborda el estudio de la figura del servidor del ka durante el periodo cronológico del Reino Antiguo. Por medio de una amplia selección de fuentes se emprende la reconstrucción de las principales características que definieron este título ahondando en sus funciones específicas y en los contextos en los cuales las ejercieron. El carácter de la documentación nos ha impuesto un enfoque iconográfico y de análisis textual y arqueológico que combinado ha permitido obtener el máximo rendimiento posible a la evidencia disponible. Con ello, el servidor del ka se revela como una figura fundamental en la implementación de la religión funeraria del Reino Antiguo. Su pape...
