The offering to the gods in the Egyptian temple.
CAUVILLE Sylvie.

The offering to the gods in the Egyptian temple.

Peeters
Regular price €29,00 €0,00 Unit price per
N° d'inventaire 15332
Format 17 x 24
Détails 291 p., illustrations, paperback.
Publication Louvain-la-Neuve, 2011
Etat Nine
ISBN 9789042925687

Kings and gods adorn the walls of Egyptian temples in a face-to-face encounter that united king and divinity for two millennia. The king, son of the god, presents a platter to his ancestor, or performs a ritual. The approximately two hundred offerings are divided into the following themes: purifications and drinks, food and products of the soil, adornments and cosmetics, funerary and defensive rites, royal rites. All are described, from their somewhat trivial meaning (for example, beer as a daily drink) to their most symbolic connotations (beer is also a sacred beverage that provides intoxication of a divine nature, or even annihilates the destructive force of the daughter of Ra). A drawing and photographs illustrate each of the sections. The title of the offering is also given in hieroglyphics to allow everyone to identify the words on the stone. Translations of the most significant texts accompany each of the offerings; In the last period of Egyptian history (Greco-Roman period, from 300 BC to 300 AD), the decoration was enriched with extensive inscriptions, written in the so-called "Ptolemaic" language, which very few Egyptologists were able to translate easily. The last great temples were veritable "parietal" libraries.

Kings and gods adorn the walls of Egyptian temples in a face-to-face encounter that united king and divinity for two millennia. The king, son of the god, presents a platter to his ancestor, or performs a ritual. The approximately two hundred offerings are divided into the following themes: purifications and drinks, food and products of the soil, adornments and cosmetics, funerary and defensive rites, royal rites. All are described, from their somewhat trivial meaning (for example, beer as a daily drink) to their most symbolic connotations (beer is also a sacred beverage that provides intoxication of a divine nature, or even annihilates the destructive force of the daughter of Ra). A drawing and photographs illustrate each of the sections. The title of the offering is also given in hieroglyphics to allow everyone to identify the words on the stone. Translations of the most significant texts accompany each of the offerings; In the last period of Egyptian history (Greco-Roman period, from 300 BC to 300 AD), the decoration was enriched with extensive inscriptions, written in the so-called "Ptolemaic" language, which very few Egyptologists were able to translate easily. The last great temples were veritable "parietal" libraries.