A perfect king : aspects of ancient Egypt royal ideology of the new kingdom /
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Call Number: DT61 .L8785
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Investigating the Temple Decoration of the Pharaonic Period
- Reviewing the Main Approaches
- Discarding the grammaire du temple
- Developing a Method of Analysis
- Implementing the Method
- The Principles For Decoration
- Five patterns...
- ...and rhetorical devices
- Creating Meaning
- Creating Meaning through Links
- Semiotics and Structural Semantics as a Theoretical Frame
- Investigating Royal Ideology Based on Temple Iconography
- Two Iconographic Units in Karnak Temple's Great Hypostyle Hall
- Making the Interpretation Correspond with the Meaning
- |g Part 1.
- The North Wall's Second Register of Scenes of Karnak Temple's Great Hypostyle Hall
- A Presentation of the Register
- Separating the Scenes into their Elements
- General Overview
- The King's Dresses
- The modifications
- Two anacolutha
- The King's Attendants
- A few missing attendants
- An alternation running along the entire register...
- ...interspersed with an inserted pattern and two tmeses
- The King's Crowns
- Which crown is depicted in scene B 282?
- An alternation embedded in an alternation
- Two framings for the Blue Crown
- The Divinities
- An alternation running along the entire register...
- ...interspersed by a two-level framing...
- ...a simple framing...
- ...and an adjunction
- The Offerings and Rites
- A parallelism
- A vast framing
- Is scene B 286 really a coronation scene?
- The šb.t and water for the first level of the framing
- The wśḫ-collar and a cup of offerings for the second level of the framing
- Wine and ointment for the third level of the framing
- Commentary
- The Iconographie Clusters of the Iconographie Unit
- Exegesis
- Crowning the king and making the uraeus arise
- The solar auspices of the king's coronation
- Pacifying the uraeus with water?
- Uniting the two lands
- Food offerings and a wśḫ-collar for Amun-Re
- Providing food offerings and ensuring the Clothing Ritual
- Royal gifts and a collar ôffering as context
- Splayed-knee pose, offering of the narre and investiture
- Protecting the god, protecting the king
- Summing up
- A group of offerings and crowns of uncertain meaning
- Amun-Re, the Theban Ennead and the king's coronation
- The ithyphallic Amun-Re, first of his Ennead
- An approving Ennead
- Summing up
- |g Part 2.
- The West Wall's Northern Half of Karnak Temple's Great Hypostyle Hall
- A Presentation of the Registers
- Separating the Scenes into their Elements
- General Overview
- The King's Dresses
- The King's Attendants
- An outstanding variety
- A very large framing, an anacoluthon and a tmesis
- An unusual alternation, tmeses and anacolutha
- Summing up
- The King's Crowns
- A simple framing and a tmesis
- Adjunctions and special crowns for a complex framing
- Four adjunctions and a unique element for a very large framing
- The Divinities
- Theological relationships for the members of the Theban Ennead
- A very large alternation
- The epithets of the ithyphallic and non-ithyphallic forms of Amun-Re.
- Hathor, the preferred companion of Amun-Re
- Hathor's gestures and attributes
- Hathor's epithets
- A group of divinities linked with each other and with the depicted rites
- Horus, Seth and the king's purification
- Gods of the Cataract for towing the barge of Amun
- Divinities in their barks for the Festival of Opet
- Divinities related to those crowning the king
- Summing up
- The Offerings and Rites
- Four offerings and rites placed next to each other
- A vast and complex framing
- A type-sequence for the second level of the framing
- Two single rites for the first level of the framing
- A group of rites involved in superimposed patterns
- Juxtaposing the king's investiture and the Festival of Opet
- Framing the king's coronation
- An anomalous design for the coronation scene
- A two-level framing for the milk
- An exceptional design for the framed milk offering
- Maat, royal name and ointment as framing offerings
- Commentary
- The Iconographic Clusters of the Iconographic Unit
- Exegesis
- Providing the god with goods...
- Milk and cattle for the god
- Endowing the god with statuettes
- Supplying the god with ointment
- ...as a kingly duty
- Splayed-knee pose, offering of the name and investiture
- An unction referring to the king's coronation?
- Summary
- Ensuring the Offering Ritual and the Clothing Ritual
- Uniting the two lands, Inundation, providing the gods and procession
- Double Crown, splayed-knee pose and king's investiture
- Osiris's body, the Inundation and the unity of Egypt
- Cattle and food for the god
- A liturgy for processions?
- Summing up
- The king's coronation and the Festival of Opet
- Horus, Seth, the two lands and the king's coronation
- Coronation for a procession
- No inundation, but a new barge
- Summing up
- Seeking the Theban Ennead's approval
- Two Braces of Attendants for the Unity of the Two Lands
- Summing up
- General Conclusion
- From a Thutmoside to a Ramesside Model for the Coronation
- A Coronation, An Ennead, the Festival of Opet and the King's Deeds
- A Processional Model for the Coronation
- A Procession, but for which Purpose?
- A Solar Deciding Instance
- Summing Up
- A King and Priest, not a King-priest
- The King-priest : current status of the question
- The Sources
- A King and Priest
- A King and Subject
- Three Root-acts for Defining a King
- Defining an Approach
- About the King
- A Model for Defining the King
- A Contractual Relationship
- Summing Up.