Studies in Ancient Egyptian funerary literature /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French German |
| Published: |
Leuven :
Peeters,
2017
Leuven ; Bristol, CT : 2017 |
| Series: | Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ;
257 |
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 673 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm xxi, 673 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 904293462X 9789042934627 |