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Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research
in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know
relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the
city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second
millennium BCE. By focussing on lived ancient religion, we can see
that the social and religious strategies employed by the
individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious,
post-mortem salvation, nor is their self-representation simply
intended to manifest social status. On the contrary, the religious
practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide
spectrum of options to configure sociality before and after one's
own death. The analytical distinction between religion and other
forms of human practices and sociality illuminates the range of
cultural practices and how people selected, modified, or even
avoided certain religious practices. As a result, pre-funerary,
funerary and practices of the subsequent mortuary cults, in close
connection with religious practices directed towards other
ancestors and deities, allow the formation of imagined and
functioning reminiscence clusters as central social groups at
Saqqara, creating a heuristic model applicable also to other
contexts.
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in
particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised,
and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with
archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if
superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups
continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in
turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation,
negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took
place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural
geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through
the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious
practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of
religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a
variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study,
this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop
held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi
Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology
of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and
'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts
and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early
Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese
archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval
south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in
particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised,
and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with
archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if
superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups
continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in
turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation,
negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took
place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural
geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through
the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious
practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of
religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a
variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study,
this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop
held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi
Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology
of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and
'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts
and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early
Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese
archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval
south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.
After having been held in the UK for the past 10 years, the 11th
edition of the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) graduate
conference was held at Leiden University, The Netherlands in
January 2010. As always, the main aim of the conference was to
provide graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology and
Egyptian archaeology with the opportunity to present their
research. The proceedings of this year's conference cover a wide
range of topics from the Predynastic Period to modern Egypt. The
papers reflect a similar variety in areas of research and
scientific approach, for example, by applying the linguistic
prototype theory to ancient Egyptian texts or by using an
ethnoarchaeological approach for the study of modern mud-brick
architecture. The topics covered include Egyptian religion, ranging
from the Coffin Texts to the decoration of temple walls in
Ptolemaic times, as well as sociological issues in the Middle and
New Kingdom. Other contributions focus on the study of the
chronology of the Middle Kingdom with the help of lunar ephemerides
or well-stratified radiocarbon data versus pottery data. In
summary, Proceedings of Current Research in Egyptology XI includes
19 selected papers on artefact studies, burial practices and
provisioning for the afterlife, economy and sociology, history and
chronological studies, linguistics, philology and religion.
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased
both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important
requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could
afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins
also played a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked
their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing
process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that
were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the
National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first
international research project to study the entire use-life of
Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective. This edited
volume focusses on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of
Amon that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National
Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Six chapters, written by
international specialists, present the history of the Priests of
Amon, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins
from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the
general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies,
and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for
both students and academics.
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased
both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important
requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could
afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins
also played a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked
their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing
process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that
were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the
National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first
international research project to study the entire use-life of
Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective. This edited
volume focusses on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of
Amon that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National
Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Six chapters, written by
international specialists, present the history of the Priests of
Amon, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins
from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the
general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies,
and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for
both students and academics.
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