H 290 x W 205 mm
242 pages
33 figures, 23 tables (5 pages of colour)
Published Oct 2021
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789698213
Digital: 9781789698220
Keywords
Egyptian Animal Worship; Egyptian Religion; Religious Practice; Sacred Animals
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This study presents an articulated historical interpretation of Egyptian ‘animal worship’ from the Early Dynastic to the New Kingdom, and offers a new understanding of its chronological development through a fresh review of pertinent archaeological and textual data.
Preface and Acknowledgements ;
1. Introducing Animal Worship ;
Animal worship and ancient Egyptian religion: articulation of the problem ;
Thesis, goals, and limitations of the present study ;
History of research and status quaestionis ;
Theory and methodology ;
Presenting the Evidence ;
2. The Early Dynastic ;
Royal evidence ;
Titles and personal names ;
The Classical tradition ;
Summary ;
3. The Old Kingdom ;
Royal and temple evidence ;
Private inscriptions: titles and biographies ;
Personal names ;
Funerary domains ;
Pyramid Texts ;
Architectural evidence ;
Summary ;
4. From the First Intermediate Period to the Middle Kingdom ;
Titles ;
Private inscriptions ;
Personal names ;
Coffin Texts ;
Summary ;
5. The New Kingdom ;
The Apis bull at Memphis ;
The Mnevis bull at Heliopolis ;
The ‘Fish-stelae’ from Mendes ;
The fish necropolis at Gurob ;
The ‘Salakhana Trove’ at Asyut ;
Bulls in the Theban region ;
The ‘Crocodile-stelae’ from Sumenu ;
The inscribed jar fragment Munich Ä 1383 ;
Synthesis and Reconstruction ;
6. Modelling Animal Worship ;
Introduction: etic and emic ;
The etic perspective: single and multiple animals ;
The emic perspective: Egyptian concepts and modes of predication ;
The sacralisation of the animals: a ritual and semantic process ;
Reconfiguring ‘animal worship’: practice, display, history ;
Conclusions ;
Bibliography ;
Index