Living Forever

Description

- An overview of the ways in which the ancient Egyptian non-royal elite sought to be remembered by their contemporaries and for eternity.

- A chronological view of self-presentation through inscriptions and images from the Early Dynastic Period to the Thirtieth Dynasty.

- A collection of essays by international experts in Egyptology and archaeology providing fresh insight into the developing notion of self, relationship to the gods, and collective memory in ancient Egypt.

Contents


Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Map of Ancient Egypt
Chronology
Abbreviations
Foreword by James P. Allen
Prefacev
Introduction
Hussein Bassir
1 Egyptian Self-Presentation Dynamics and Strategies
Christopher Eyre
2 Self-Presentation in the Early Dynasties
Juan Carlos Moreno García
3 Self-Presentation in the Fourth Dynasty
Hend Sherbiny
4 Self-Presentation in the Late Old Kingdom
Hana Vymazalová
5 Self-Presentation in the Eleventh Dynasty
Renata Landgráfová
6 Self-Presentation in the Twelfth Dynasty
Ronald Leprohon
7 Self-Presentation in the Second Intermediate Period
R. Gareth Roberts
8 Self-Presentation in the Eighteenth Dynasty
Hana Navratilova
9 Self-Presentation in the Ramesside Period
Colleen Manassa Darnell
10 Self-Presentation in the Third Intermediate Period
Roberto B. Gozzoli
11 Self-Presentation in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Jeremy Pope
12 Self-Presentation in the Late Dynastic Period
Damien Agut-Labordère
13 Women’s Self-Presentation in Pharaonic Egypt
Mariam Ayad
14 Traditions of Egyptian Self-Presentation
Hussein Bassir

Sujets

• Histoire
• Egypt
• Ancient
• History

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 03 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781617979620
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Living Forever
Living Forever
Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt




Edited by Hussein Bassir






The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York
This electronic edition published in 2019 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt 200 Park Ave., Suite 1700 New York, NY 10166 www.aucpress.com

Copyright © 2019 by the American University in Cairo Press

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN 978 977 416 901 4 eISBN 978 1 61797 962 0

Version 1
To my father To my mother To my wife To my sons
Contents



Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Map of Ancient Egypt
Chronology
Abbreviations
Foreword by James P. Allen
Preface

Introduction
Hussein Bassir
1. Egyptian Self-Presentation Dynamics and Strategies
Christopher Eyre
2. Self-Presentation in the Early Dynasties
Juan Carlos Moreno García
3. Self-Presentation in the Fourth Dynasty
Hend Sherbiny
4. Self-Presentation in the Late Old Kingdom
Hana Vymazalová
5. Self-Presentation in the Eleventh Dynasty
Renata Landgráfová
6. Self-Presentation in the Twelfth Dynasty
Ronald Leprohon
7. Self-Presentation in the Second Intermediate Period
R. Gareth Roberts
8. Self-Presentation in the Eighteenth Dynasty
Hana Navratilova
9. Self-Presentation in the Ramesside Period
Colleen Manassa Darnell
10. Self-Presentation in the Third Intermediate Period
Roberto B. Gozzoli
11. Self-Presentation in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Jeremy Pope
12. Self-Presentation in the Late Dynastic Period
Damien Agut-Labordère
13. Women’s Self-Presentation in Pharaonic Egypt
Mariam Ayad
14. Traditions of Egyptian Self-Presentation
Hussein Bassir
Acknowledgments



F irst of all, I would like to thank Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones for welcoming the book to be published at the AUC Press. Moreover, I should thank his wonderful team at the AUC Press, especially Nadia Naqib, Neil Hewison, Nadine El-Hadi, Ælfwine Mischler, and Tarek Ghanem.
I would like to thank Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Mostafa El Feki, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, for their continuous encouragement and unlimited support.
Many scholars have served as reviewers of the book chapters. I would like to thank them all here, and they are listed alphabetically: Betsy M. Bryan, Rita Freed, David Klotz, Ronald Leprohon, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Joachim Friedrich Quack, and Joshua A. Roberson .
Many thanks are due to Aidan Dodson for providing me with the map of ancient Egypt. I would like to thank the following persons for providing me with photographs: Sandro Vanini, Arnulf Schlüter, Friederike Seyfried, Olivia Zorn, Sandra Steiß, Klaus Finneiser, Rondot Vincent, Audry Viger, Georges Poncet, Florence Gombert-Meurice, Patricia Rigault-Deon, Sabah Abdel Razek, Marwa Badr El Din, Sameh Abdel Mohsen, and Ahmed Amin.
I would like to thank all the contributors to this book. Working with them over the years has been a source of much fun and knowledge. I would like to thank my family, my wife Hend and my sons Abdallah, Adam, and Farris, for supporting me during the process of working on this book.
Illustrations



Map
Map of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Illustrations
2.1. Rock art at Nag el-Hamdulab, Dynasty 0 or 1
2.2. Line drawing of the scenes on the Narmer macehead
2.3. Early First Dynasty mastaba at Naqada
2.4. First Dynasty dish of greywacke, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2.5. Stela of Merka
2.6. Wooden Panel of Hesy-Re, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
2.7. Reliefs from the Third Dynasty chapel of Khabausokar, Saqqara
2.8. Block from the tomb of Akhetaa, late Third Dynasty
3.1. Statue of King Khufu, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
3.2. The Wadi al-Jarf papyrus from the reign of King Khufu, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
3.3. Statue of King Khafre, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
3.4. Triad of King Menkaure, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
3.5. Statues of Prince Rehotep and his wife Nofret, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
3.6. The tomb of Debehen, Giza
3.7. The Great Sphinx at Giza
4.1. The upper lintel of Neferinpu’s false door
4.2. Relief from the mastaba of the vizier Ptahshepses
4.3. The courtyard of the tomb complex of Nyuserre’s daughter Sheretnebty
4.4. Tombs dating to the late Fifth Dynasty in Abusir South
4.5. Fragments of a pseudo-group statue found in the serdab of Sheretnebty’s tomb
6.1. Graffito no. 43 from the Wadi Hammamat, reign of Amenemhat III
6.2. Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
7.1. Stela dedicated to Heremkhawef, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
10.1. The Berlin genealogy main text
11.1. Statue of Ity
11.2. Fragmentary ushabti of Harwa, Dynasty
11.3. Stela of Taniy, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
14.1. Wooden panel of Hesy-Re, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
14.2. Statues of Prince Rehotep and his wife Nofret, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
14.3. The tomb of Debehen, Giza
14.4. Stela of Weni the Elder, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
14.5. Stela of Ikhernofret , Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin
14.6. Statue of Amenhotep Son of Hapu, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
14.7. Statue of Bakenkhons, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich
14.8. Statue of Payeftjauemawyneith, Musée du Louvre, Paris
14.9. Statue of Neshor named Psamtikmenkhib, Musée du Louvre, Paris
14.10. Statue of Payeftjauemawyneith, left, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Notes on Contributors



Damien Agut-Labordère
Damien Agut-Labordère (permanent Researcher in the CNRS) is at the head of the Achemenet Program and co-leader of the CNRS team ArScAn-HAROC based in Nanterre, France. He is a specialist of Egyptian history from the sixth to the fourth centuries bc , focusing on social and economic aspects. As demoticist, he works on the documentation discovered in the Kharga Oasis. Involved in the excavations of several archaeological sites, he tries to cross the textual data with those collected by the other archaeological disciplines.
James P. Allen
James P. Allen is the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and has served as epigrapher with the Oriental Institute’s Epigraphic Survey, Cairo Director of the American Research Center in Egypt, and curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His chief interests and Egyptological contributions are in ancient Egyptian language, literature, history, and thought.
Mariam Ayad
Mariam Ayad is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Prior to joining AUC, Ayad was a tenured associate professor of art history and Egyptology at the University of Memphis, in the United States, where she also served as an assistant director of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology from 2003 to 2010. She obtained a BA in Egyptology at AUC (1994), minoring in archaeological chemistry, and an MA in ancient Near Eastern civilizations, specializing in Egyptian language and literature (with a minor in Egyptian archaeology) at the University of Toronto, Canada, before earning her PhD in Egyptology at Brown University. At Brown, Ayad’s research focused on ancient Egyptian mortuary texts, the Third Intermediate Period, and the role of women in temple hierarchy. Her dissertation, “The Funerary Texts of Amenirdis I: Analysis of Their Layout and Purpose,” successfully defended in December 2002, combined her three major areas of interest. She is the author of a monograph on the God’s Wives of Amun of the Twenty-third to the Twenty-sixth Dynasties, God’s Wife, God’s Servant (Routledge, 2009), and the editor of two volumes on Coptic culture. At AUC, Ayad teaches a year-long course on Middle Egyptian grammar (Egyptian hieroglyphs) as well as graduate seminars on Egypt in the first millennium bc , Nubian cultures and society, and ancient Egyptian women in temple ritual. Ayad also teaches an introduction to Coptic class and has led classes focusing on ancient Egyptian literature and Late Egyptian historical texts (read in Hieratic). Ayad is the director of the Opening of the Mouth Epigraphic Project at the Tomb of Harwa (TT 37) in Luxor.
Hussein Bassir
Hussein Bassir, an Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist, received his MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He has been the general director of the Giza Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum, and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and is currently director of the Antiquities Museum and Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, Bibliotheca Alexandria. He has taught in Egypt and the United States, and is the author of Image and Voice in Saite Egypt and Malikat al-far‘ana: drama al-hubb wa-l-sulta , as well as two novels, al-Bahth ‘an Khnum and al-Ahmar al-‘aguz .
Juan Carlos Moreno García
Juan Carlos Moreno García (PhD in Egyptology, 1995; Habilitation, 2009) is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Paris IV–Sorbonne. He has published extensively on pharaonic administration, socio-econo