November 07, 2007 12:25PM
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Egyptian cosmology is always an ongoing discussion, if not a debate.
Specific technological developments are frequently discussed, and sometimes debated.
A look at some of the headlines in the recent SAK issue gives us these concepts:
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Content:
* H. Altenmüller, Das Fragment einer Mumienbinde im Museum für
Völkerkunde in Hamburg
* M. Bommas, Das Motiv der Sonnenstrahlen auf der Brust des Toten.
Zur Frage der Stundenwachen im Alten Reich
* Kh. Daoud, Notes on the Tomb of Niankhnesut, Part I: Reliefs and
Inscriptions
* A. Gulyás, The Osirid Pillars and the Renewal of Ramesses III at Karnak
* K. Jansen-Winkeln, Drei Statueninschriften einer Familie aus
frühptolemäischer Zeit
* J. Kahl -- M. El-Khadragy -- U. Verhoeven (with a contribution by M.
Zöller), The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork (2006)
* M. El-Khadragy, Some Significant Features in the Decoration of the
Chapel of Iti-ibi-iqer at Asyut
* P.P. Koemoth, L'Atoum-serpent magicien de la stèle Metternich
* A. von Lieven, Im Schatten des Goldhauses. Berufsgeheimnis und
Handwerkerinitiation im Alten Ägypten
* M.M. Luiselli, Religion und Literatur. Überlegungen zur Funktion der
"persönlichen Frömmigkeit" in der Literatur des Mittleren und Neuen
Reiches
* Y. El-Masry, Rock-Tombs from the late Old Kingdom in the 9th Nome of
Upper Egypt
* M. Nuzzolo, The Sun Temples of the Vth Dynasty: A Reassessment
* J.F. Quack, Die Initiation zum Schreiberberuf im Alten Ägypten
* B. Schukraft, Homosexualität im Alten Ägypten
* V. Vasiljevic', Der Grabherr und seine Frau. Zur Ikonographie der
Status- und Machtverhältnisse in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches
* K. Wada, Provincial Society and Cemetery Organization in the New Kingdom
* K. Zibelius-Chen, Die Medja in altägyptischen Quellen
Many of these are not just descriptions of sites or objects, but rather new or revised interpretations of the data/sites in question.
The Bommas article, for example, has this as its premise:
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Bommas, Martin
Das Motiv der Sonnenstrahlen auf der Brust des Toten. Zur Frage der Stundenwachen
im Alten Reich
S. 15–22
This article challenges the earliest date of the Stundenwachen in the place of embalment by
investigating a textual and figurative motive, which only caught scarce attention so far. Being part of the encyclopaedia of funerary images, the motive of the morning sun on the deceased’s breast is understood as the initial moment of the funerary procession. It does not only express the deceased’s wish to leave for the west but involves also the prospect of crossing the border from this world to the hereafter by ritualistic means: just as the deceased equals Osiris, Horus in his role of the sun-disc bends over his father to secure his ways. The motive stands for the presence of cosmic order which safeguards the deceased as a sacrum on his way from the secure embalming chamber to the open forecourt of his tomb where the Ritual of Opening the Mouth takes place at noon.
In a journal like SAK (or JARCE, or JEA), you'll find the right way to make an historical argument. What you won't find is, "
I found a coincidence! Isn't it cool? Now it's up to you to prove I'm wrong!", like you do on so many websites and in so many Alternative History books.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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