The image of the ordered world in ancient Nubian art : the construction of the Kushite mind, 800 BC-300 AD /

The image of the ordered world in ancient Nubian art : the construction of the Kushite mind, 800 BC-300 AD /

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Main Author: Torok, Laszlo, 1941-2020 (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2002.

Series: Probleme der Agyptologie, 18.
PdA ; 18.

Subjects:

Sacred space > Nubia.
Temples > Nubia.
Nubia > Civilization.
Nubia > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DT57 .P92 v.18

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The sacred landscape of Nubia
  • 1.1. Inhabited space, sacred landscape, order in the world
  • 1.2. The Nile and Nubia's sacred landscape in the New Kingdom and during the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty
  • 1.3. Royal progress and sacred landscape
  • 1.4. Urban landscapes in Kush and their theology
  • 1.5. The theology of the relationship between Napata and Sanam
  • 2. Iconography and order in the world
  • 2.1. The grammar of the Kushite temple
  • 2.2. The revival of New Kingdom cults in Kush
  • 2.3. Temple B 300 of Mut and Hathor-Tefnut at Napata
  • 2.4. The principal Amun temple (Temple T) at Kawa
  • 2.5. The temple of Amun, Bull of Bow-land at Sanam
  • 2.6. Temples A and B at Kawa: building history
  • 2.7. An early post-Twenty-Fifth Dynasty sanctuary: temple B 700 at Napata
  • 2.8. The Function of the Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es Sufra and the iconography of the front colonnade of Hall 101
  • 2.9. The temple of Apedemak at Musawwarat es Sufra
  • 2.10. Temple II A at Musawwarat es Sufra
  • 2.11. The reliefs of the great Amun temple of Napata in the Meroitic period
  • 2.12. Temple F at Naqa
  • 2.13. Temple M 250 at Meroe City
  • 2.14. The temple of Apedemak at Naqa
  • 2.15. The temple of Amun at Naqa
  • 2.16. The Court of the Amun temple at Amara
  • 3. Temple and society: historical memory and identity
  • 3.1. From a grammar of the temple to a grammar of the relationship between temple and society
  • 3.2. The temples of Kawa and Sanam
  • 3.3. The great Amun temple of Napata in the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and Napatan periods
  • 3.4. The great Amun temple of Napata in the Meroitic period
  • 3.5. The late Amun temple of Meroe City
  • 4. Myth of the state, literacy, and literature
  • 4.1. Components and uses of the Kushite royal text
  • 4.2. Structure and form, text and recitation
  • 4.3. Functions of literacy in the Meroitic period.