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1 online resource |
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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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Animal worship -- Egypt.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt.
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Egypt -- Religious life and customs.
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Egypt -- Religion.
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Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C.
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Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Egyptian archaeology -- Egyptology. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt. |
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Animal worship |
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Antiquities |
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Religion |
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Egypt https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDwpX7XgppvP7ww3J9c |
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To 332 B.C. |
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1789698219 9781789698213 (OCoLC)1277281768 |
| ISBN |
1789698227 (electronic book) |
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9781789698220 (electronic bk.) |
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1789698219 |
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9781789698213 |
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