City of the Ram-man : the story of ancient Mendes
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書誌事項
City of the Ram-man : the story of ancient Mendes
Princeton University Press, c2010
- : hbk.
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In this richly illustrated book, renowned archaeologist Donald Redford draws on the latest discoveries--including many of his own--to tell the story of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes, home of the mysterious cult of the "fornicating ram who mounts the beauties." Excavation by Redford and his colleagues over the past two decades has cast a flood of light on this strange center of worship and political power located in the Nile Delta. A sweeping chronological account filled with photographs, drawings, and informative sidebars, City of the Ram-Man is the first history of Mendes written for general readers. Founded in the remote prehistoric past, inhabited continuously for 5,000 years, and abandoned only in the first-century BC, Mendes is a microcosm of ancient Egyptian history. City of the Ram-Man tells the city's full story--from its founding, through its development of a great society and its brief period as the capital of Egypt, up to its final decline. Central to the story is millennia of worship dedicated to the lascivious ram-god.
The book describes the discoveries of the great temple of the ram and the "Mansion of the Rams," where the embalmed bodies of the avatars of the god were buried. It also discusses ancient Greek reports that these ram-gods occasionally ritually fornicated with women. Vividly written and informed throughout by Redford's intimate knowledge of the remains of Mendes, City of the Ram-Man is a unique account of a long-lost monument of Egyptian history, religion, and culture.
目次
List of Illustrations vii List of Sidebars xiii Preface xv Introduction xvii List of Abbreviations xxi Chapter One: The Beginnings 1 Chapter Two: The Advent of Horus 8 Chapter Three: In the Time of the Residence 18 Chapter Four: The Collapse 42 Chapter Five: The Mysterious Centuries: The Middle Kingdom 58 Chapter Six: Mendes under the Empire Pharaohs 67 Chapter Seven: The Great Chiefs of the Meshwesh 95 Chapter Eight: Egypt in the Time of Troubles 111 Chapter Nine: The Ram, Lord of Djedet 124 Chapter Ten: The Saite Revival 138 Chapter Eleven: Mendes, the Capital of Egypt 144 Chapter Twelve: The Great Disaster 179 Chapter Thirteen: Dusk and Darkness: The End of Mendes 188 Notes and Further Readings 211 Index 231
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