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Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt : the Old and Middle Kingdoms
'Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt' considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
: Cornell University Press
, 2022
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501760150.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Julia Troche |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology |
| Summary: | 'Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt' considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Troche provides a novel treatment of mortuary culture exploring how the dead were mobilized to negotiate social, religious, and political capital in ancient Egypt before the New Kingdom |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 179 pages) illustrations, map |
| ISBN: | 9781501760174 |
