Senebi und Selbst : Personenkonstituenten zur rituellen Wiedergeburt in einem Frauensarg des Mittleren Reiches /
: xii, 438 pages : 28 illustration on plates ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-392) and indexes. : 3727815485 3525530129 9783727815485 9783525530122 : 1015-1850 ;
Ancient Egypt and the afterlife : the quest for immortality, 4-fold /
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Pages fold out horizontally and vertically.
"This is the first in the new Scala 4-fold series" -- Cover [page 4]
"Printed and bound by Editoriale Lloyd" -- Title page verso.
"Book created after the concept of the series Decouvertes Gallimard Hors Serie (France)" -- Title page verso. :
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm. :
185759293X :
https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/primo-explore/sourceRecord?vid=01IOWA&docId=01IOWA_ALMA21337595130002771
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Regressus ad uterum : la mort comme une nouvelle naissance dans les grands textes funéraires de l'Égypte pharaonique (Ve-XXe dynastie) /
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"This work, stem[ming] from a doctoral dissertation, aims at demonstrating that referring to birth and its practical modalities is an essential aspect of Ancient Egypt's funerary beliefs. From the Pyramid Texts to the books of the afterlife in the New Kingdom, funerary writings of Egypt are full of allusions to post mortem fate viewed as second birth, which imitates more of less precisely the biological process of the first. Be he king or an ordinary man, the dead is carried in gestation by one or several divine mothers and is born again in the afterworld; there his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, fed and cared for like a newborn child. Numerous mythical elements join the purely practical ones, thus reinventing the biological model and showing the intermingling of both the worldly and cosmic levels. thanks to this cyclic process, not only does the deceased access the hereafter, but he is also eternally alive there." -- Page [4] of cover.
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xi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9782724707434
Between temple and tomb : the demotic ritual texts of Bodl. MS. Egypt. a. 3(P) /
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The ancient Egyptians believed that rites performed for Osiris, the god of the dead, played a critical role in maintaining Egypt?s well-being and prosperity. Not only did they ensure the renewed fertility of the country?s arable land, they also guaranteed the political and social cohesion of the Egyptian state. However, it was not only at the national level, but at the individual level as well, that the Egyptians deemed such rites to be beneficial. Ritual texts intended to restore Osiris to life, suitably adapted, could also be recited for deceased individuals. Thus they could benefit from them in the same way that Osiris did. In the Graeco-Roman Period, adapted ritual texts of this sort were employed alongside texts originally composed for use in the funerary cult of ordinary deceased people. A number of ritual texts which are first attested in the private sphere subsequently appear in the temple sphere as well. Some ritual texts appear to have moved back and forth from one sphere to another, which suggests that the boundaries between the Osirian temple cult and the private funerary cult may have been more fluid than we usually imagine.0The ritual texts edited in this volume offer an excellent opportunity to explore these and related issues. Most of them are known to have been employed both for the benefit of the god Osiris and for ordinary deceased people, in certain cases, during one and the same period of Egypt?s history. This is one of their most interesting and striking features. They stand at the interface between temple cult and cult of the dead and allow us to trace the transmission of beliefs and practices from one sphere to the other.
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205 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172). :
9783447113311
3447113316 :
2190-3646 ;
Les Enfants d'Horus au Nouvel Empire et à la Troisième Période Intermédiaire : étude iconographique, philologique et religieuse /
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Première synthèse consacrée aux Enfants d'Horus, dieux incontournables dans le paysage iconographique funéraire dès le début du Nouvel Empire. Protecteurs des viscères d'Osiris, ils se voient aussi confier ceux du défunt qui aspire à associer son devenir à celui du dieu. Les Enfants d'Horus occupent donc une place privilégiée aux côtés du défunt qui souhaite vivre éternellement dans l'au-delà. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de présenter, dans un premier temps, chaque Enfant d'Horus individuellement à travers son nom, sa figuration, son costume, ainsi que sa fonction, et les formules qui lui sont associées. Dans un second temps, l'attention sera portée sur le groupe cohérent qu'ils forment et qui prends place tantôt sur une fleur de lotus, tantôt autour du défunt, tant sur le mobilier funéraire que dans les tombes et les temples. Cette étude s'appuie sur un catalogue d'attestations issues des temples, des tombes et du mobilier funéraire royal, de nombreux papyrus funéraires ainsi que des tombes privées dont plusieurs sont inédites. Un chapitre entier est consacré à la traduction des légendes qui accompagnent les Enfants d'Horus.
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196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9782874571435