Akhmîm et la 9e province de Haute Égypte : étude de géographie religieuse / Marion Claude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claude, Marion, 1991- author.

Series:

Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion ; 2190-3646 Bd. 41.

Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 2190-3646 ; Band 41

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Religion--History.

Egypt.

Egypt--Antiquities.

Religion and geography.

Akhmīm (Egypt)--Religion--History.

Akhmīm (Egypt).

Akhmīm (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Religion.

Civilization.

Antiquities.

Egypt--Akhmīm.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

ix, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.

Summary:

The 9th Upper Egyptian province, with its capital city Akhmîm (also known as Ipu, Khenty-Min, or Panopolis), was a renowned cult center throughout Antiquity yet it has so far been largely neglected, due mostly to circumstances of archaeological discoveries and research. 0This book, which stems from the author?s doctoral research, aims at summarizing, for the first time, the current knowledge about the religious geography of this area and its development from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. Starting with a study of the modern physical geography of the province as a frame of reflection for ancient landscape mobility, it moves on with an analysis of the archaeological sites and discoveries of the area. The next two chapters are dedicated to the toponyms attested for the province, and the question of their identification, as well as to the various deities, starting with Min, Horus, Isis or Repyt, who received a cult in these places. Finally, the last chapter proposes a diachronical overview of the development of temples and cults in the area. The whole book is illustrated with many maps and aims at providing an insight into the religious life of provincial cities, in a place rather remote from Egypt?s wellknown centers of power, be it Thebes or Memphis.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-412) and index.

ISBN:

9783447120708

3447120703

OCLC:

1434246051

Publisher Number:

9783447120708