Author : Lisa K. Sabbahy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108830919
This book presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship. It examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy.
Author : Lisa Sabbahy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781108823739
Author : Lisa K. Sabbahy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108916244
In this book, Lisa Sabbahy presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship in the Old Kingdom and its re-formation in the early Middle Kingdom. Beginning with an account of Egypt's history before the Old Kingdom, she examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy. The heart of her study is an exploration of the king's constant emphasis on his relationship to his divine parents, the sun god Ra and his mother, the goddess Hathor, who were two of the most important deities backing the rule of a divine king. Sabbahy focuses on the cardinal importance of this relationship, which is reflected in the king's monuments, particularly his pyramid complexes, several of which are analysed in detail. Sabbahy also offers new insights into the role of queens in the early history of Egypt, notably sibling royal marriages, harem conspiracies, and the possible connotations of royal female titles.
Author : Emily Teeter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848555
This book is a vivid reconstruction of ancient Egyptian religious rituals that were enacted in temples, tombs, and private homes.
Author : Brian Muhs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107113369
The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000-30 BCE.
Author : Giulio Magli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107032083
Most of the "wonders" of our ancient past have come down to us unencumbered by written information. In particular, this is the case of the Great Pyramid of Giza and of many other ancient Egyptian monuments. However, there is no doubt as to the interest of their builders in the celestial cycles: the "cosmic order" was indeed the true basis of the pharaoh's power. This book takes the reader on a chronological journey through ancient Egypt to explore the relationship between astronomy, landscape, and power during the most flourishing periods of ancient Egyptian civilization. Using the lens of archaeoastronomy, Giulio Magli reexamines the key monuments and turning points of Egyptian architecture and history, such as the solar deification of King Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid, the Hatshepsut reign, and the Amarna revolution.
Author : Janet Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521776714
Three terms, Order, Legitimacy and Wealth, delineate a comparative approach to ancient civilizations initially developed by John Baines, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, and Norman Yoffee, Professor of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, in 1992. In an influential paper, they compared and contrasted the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia. This was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. The contributors to the present book, first published in 2000, apply the classic Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of 'high culture', literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture, Egyptian
ISBN : 1588391736
A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt
Author : Henri Frankfort
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN : 9780226260105
Author : Julia Troche
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501760165
Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Troche provides a novel treatment of mortuary culture exploring how the dead were mobilized to negotiate social, religious, and political capital in ancient Egypt before the New Kingdom. Troche explores the perceived agency of esteemed dead in ancient Egyptian social, political, and religious life during the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c. 2700–1650 BCE) by utilizing a wide range of evidence, from epigraphic and literary sources to visual and material artifacts. As a result, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt is an important contribution to current scholarship in its collection and presentation of data, the framework it establishes for identifying distinguished and deified dead, and its novel argumentation, which adds to the larger academic conversation about power negotiation and the perceived agency of the dead in ancient Egypt.
