Teodor Lekov, Emil Buzov (eds.). Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists, 25—27 September 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria
Language: English

Table of contents

Preface

A. Landborg. The Process and Outcome of Hprw in the Coffin Texts

C. Burke. Overworld and Underworld: Placing The Book of Traversing Eternity in the World of Funerary Literature

A. Cox. Gods, Knowledge and Power in Ancient Egyptian Tales: Narratology and The Story Of The Doomed Prince

C. Rindi. Some remarks on the Positions of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figures in Third Intermediate and Late Period Burial

G. Cafici. The Pontificate of Amun at Thebes in the Ptolemaic Period: Prosopographical Analysis Based on the Demotic, Hieroglyphic and Greek Documentation

R. Pereira. Some Remarks on The Book of Thoth: Concerning Seshat, Sahi and the ”Invention” of the Hermetic Agathos

D. Megahed. The Altar of Djedkare's Funerary Temple from South Saqqara

V. Turriziani. Some Reflections on the Cult of Minor Deities during the Old Kingdom: Evidences from Textual and Epigraphic Sources

F. Coppens. Cult on the Move: The Transmission of Cultic Concepts in First Millennium BC Egypt

A. Gómez. An Overview of the Servants of Khonsu during the Third Intermediate Period at Thebes

M. Guasch. On the Orientation of the Magical Bricks Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber

D. Liesegang. The Phenomenon of “Personal Religion” in the Ramesside Period, from The “Poem” of Ramses II through to The Prayers of Ramses III

A. Colonna. Θεοι And Ιεποι: Some Remarks on Animal Cult in Ancient Egypt according to Classical and Egyptian Texts

A. Dégremont. The False-Door from Theban Tomb 52

A. Colazilli. Skin in Ancient Egyptian Belief: Sacred Texts and Rituals

Y. Chobanov. The Presence of the Harper's Songs in the Private Tombs of the New Kingdom

M. Tomorad. “Shabtis” — Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurines

H. Pethen. The Pharaoh as Horus: Three Dimensional Falcon Figures from Mining Sites, and the Religious Context for the Extraction of Minerals in The Middle Kingdom

A. Schnoor. Function and Context of Wooden Statues in the Old and Middle Kingdoms

G. Heffernan. Memories of State: Royal Memorial Cults as Proponents of Memory and State Legitimation in the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty

M. Lebedev. Encountering Gods if the Desert: Ancient Egyptians beyond the Nile Valley during the Old and Middle Kingdoms

I. Davino. Amon and the God's Wife: The Ritual Activity at Karnak

A. Springuel. The Tomb of Bannentiu in the Oasis of Bahria: An Interpretation

M. Catania. Solar Journey Images in Private Tombs: Material and Symbolic Configuration

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