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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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VerfasserIn: Troche, Julia (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2022
Schriftenreihe:Cornell scholarship online
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Online Zugang:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501760150.001.0001
Verantwortlich:Julia Troche
E-Book-Pakete:Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology
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Zusammenfassung:'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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Zielgruppe: Specialized
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 179 pages) illustrations, map
ISBN:9781501760174