Studies in Ancient Egyptian funerary literature / edited by Susanne Bickel and Lucía Díaz-Iglesias.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bickel, Susanne, 1960- editor.

Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Lucía, 1981- editor.

Series:

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 257.

Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 257

Language:

Arabic

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.

Egypt--History--To 332 B.C.

Egypt.

History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Egypt.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 673 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2017.

Language Note:

Essays in English, French, or German with a summary in Arabic.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Susanne Bickel, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias

Un groupe de papyrus funéraires tardifs / Florence Albert

The pyramid texts as literature / James P. Allen

Le double sarcophage de Mésehti " l'espace, le verbe et le temps / Bernard Arquier

Re-reading pyramids? : Gedanken zu korrelationen zwischen inhalt, anbringungsort und hypothetischer lesefolge funerärer texte anhand PT 313-321 . Burkhard Backes

Everybody's afterlife? : "pharaonisation" in the pyramid texts / Susanne Bickel

Middle kingdom box coffin fragments from Assiut : the unpublished coffin boards Birmingham S1 Bir and S1 NY / Martin Bommas

Die zusammenstellung von pyramiden- und Sargtexten im sarg des Karenen (Sq6C) und im Grab von Chesu dem Älteren (KH1KH) die rolle des verstorbenen als empfänger oder handelnder in sacerdotal und personal texts / Jan-Michael Dahms

Local reworkings of core mythological notions : the case of Herakleopolis magna / Lucía Díaz-Iglesias

Some remarks on three book of the dead vignettes in the Tomb of Padiamenope (TT33)

Möglichkeiten und grenzen textkritischen arbeitens am Beispiel altägyptischer funerärer texte / Louise Gestermann

Text transmission or text reproduction? : the shifting materiality of pyramid texts spell 267 / Ramadan B, Hussein

Die vignette zu Tb 15 aus Papyrus London BM EA 10466-7 / Günther Lapp

Originally non-funerary spells from the coffin texts : the example of CT spell 38 / Alexandra von Lieven

Papyrus Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 46 : ein Beitrag zur frühen Rezeptionsgeschichte des Totenbuches / Barbara Lüscher

Re-reading the pyramids : repères pour une lecture spatialisée des textes des pyramides / Bernard Mathieu

Unraveling the threat : transmissions and reception of pyramid texts in late period Egypt / Antonio J. Morales

Note de cryptographie : le nom du bâton-serpent dans la 1re heure de l'Amdouat (n° 62) / Isabelle Régen

The transition from the coffin texts to the book of the dead : the origin of the glosses in Book of the dead spell 18 / Zsuzsanna Végh

Die sprüche 648 bis 654 der altägyptischen sargtexte / Mareike Wagner

The method of "sequencing" in analyzing Egyptian funerary texts : the example of coffin texts spells 283 and 296 / Harco Willems

Indices

English and Arabic summaries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789042934627

904293462X

OCLC:

999533603