Tag: Ramesside period

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Flesh for Fantasy: Refections of Women in Two Ancient Egyptian Dream Manuals

Whether or not the Egyptian dream manuals are collections of dreams that were actually seen, or were possible visions that the composer believed could be seen is a moot point for our purposes. What matters is that they are embed- ded within their specific cultural matrix, and that they and their interpreta- tions to a certain degree reflect social hopes, fears, and desires, projected by their composers, the priests.

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The Shield of Divine Protection

I argue that the antecedent of the relative clause here is the word ‘shield’, and that Butehamun referred to how soldiers, when they were engaged in an activity which demanded both hands, such as climbing a ladder, would sling their shield over their back, so that it would protect them automatically without their having to wield it. I suggest that Butehamun invokes this type of protection for his father.”

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Ancient Egyptian astronomy: timekeeping and cosmography in the new kingdom

The study of astronomy in Ancient Egypt has traditionally fallen between the fields of Egyptology, astronomy, archaeoastronomy,and history of science. Researchersfrom all four disciplines have looked at the area from different perspectives. In addition however, there have been reasonswhy researchershave not tackled the field: Egyptologists have felt it required too much technical knowledge while other researchershave believed that those capable of reading the texts are most suited to studying the material.

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Ramesses, "King of Kings": On the Context and Interpretation of Royal Colossi

The nature of kingship has been among the most intensively studied aspects of Egyptian culture and cannot be adequately addressed here. My interest lies specifically in the creation, definition and separation of distinct royal identities, mobilised through the colossi, which became the objects of cult. It is an axiom that the king of Egypt was held to be divine, although the concept was evidently mutable over time.