عنوان

Communication with the divine in ancient Egypt :

شماره

TLets810909

عنوان اصلي

Communication with the divine in ancient Egypt :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Simmance, Eleanor Beth

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

hearing deities, intermediary statues and sistrophores

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Birmingham

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

This thesis examines the desire for contact with deities in Egypt, the artistic and textual expression of which can be viewed as characteristic of 'personal piety'. The attribution of hearing abilities to deities through epithets and phrases is evocative of human attempts to communicate with the divine sphere, and the Egyptian evidence is presented. A case study of so-called 'intermediary statues', which claim to facilitate communication between human and god, offers an opportunity to investigate how some members of the elite adapted their artistic output to take advantage of popular beliefs, furthering their own commemoration. Sistrophorous statues (bearing a naos-sistrum) are well-represented in the intermediary corpus, and their symbolism is explored alongside the significance of statue form and temple location in the context of communication with gods. The nature of the authority and power present in the communicative relationships between human, god and statue is considered, in part through the lens of compliance-gaining theory. It is argued that the notion of hearing deities and mediation provided humans with some power over their gods, and statue-owners with a means to maintain elite governance over what were ostensibly more personal and accessible modes of worship.

موضوع مستند نشده

BL Religion; D051 Ancient History; DT Africa

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

University of Birmingham

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Birmingham

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y