Temples of ancient Egypt
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Temples of ancient Egypt
Cornell University Press, 1997
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  Iwate
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-317) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Temples of Ancient Egypt, five distinguished scholars-Dieter Arnold, Lanny Bell, Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad, Gerhard Haeny, and Byron E. Shafer-here summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. The first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, it offers a unique perspective on ritual and its cultural significance. The authors perceive temples as loci for the creative interplay of sacred space and sacred time. They regard as unacceptable the traditional division of the temples into the categories of "mortuary" and "divine," believing that their functions and symbolic representations were, at once, too varied and too intertwined.
Table of Contents
- Temples, priests and rituals - an overview, Byron E. Shafer
- royal cult complexes of the Old and Middle Kingdom, Dieter Arnold
- New Kingdom "mortuary temples" and "mansions of millions of years", Gerhard Haeny
- the New Kingdom "divine" temple - the example of Luxor, Lanny Bell
- temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods - ancient traditions in new context, Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad.
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