Religion Archive
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Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThough textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
Hieratic Inscriptions from the Quarry at Qurna: an interim Report
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsHieratic inscriptions in a Theban quarry north of the road to the Valley of the Kings were first noticed by Petrie. It has subsequently been shown that stone from this quarry was used for the construction of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III. This article presents drawings and photographs of graffiti noted during recent examination of the site. -
The Lecherous Pseudo-Anubis of Josephus and the
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWhile a variety of sources testify to the expulsion of foreign priests from Rome under Tiberius, Josephus is the only ancient author to explain the Emperor -
Hybrid monsters in the Classical World : the nature and function of hybrid monsters in Greek mythology, literature and art
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn the search for satisfying answers to these questions an in-depth review of two examples of human-animal hybrids -
Social complexity and religion at Rome in the second and first centuries BCE
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis studies the religious system of the city of Rome and its immediate hinterland from the end of the Second Punic War to the emergence of autocratic rule shortly before the turn of the millennium. -
The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThis thesis aims to investigate the women of ancient Egypt with regards to their relationship with the goddess Hathor. Hathor is one of the most popular Egyptian deities, and arguably (until she was assimilated by Isis during later Egyptian history) the most popular deity among the women of Egypt. -
The role of the chantress in ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe goal of this study is to determine what it meant to be a Sm-r, or chantress, in ancient Egypt. Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Surprisingly, there is also a male version of the title, Smr, but the female version is by far the more prevalent. It is the women who held this title that will be the focus of this study. -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
Mehen, God of the Board Games
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsAncient Egyptian boardgames normally have a religious symbolism, although it is often very difficult to find the exact meaning. One cannot examine the subject of Egyptian boardgames without taking into account this background.
