The Burial Of Isis
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Author | : Foy Scalf |
Publisher | : Oriental Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Book of the dead |
ISBN | : 9781614910381 |
Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
Author | : John K. McDonald |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1996-11-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892364157 |
Nefertari, the favorite queen of Rameses II, was buried about 3,200 years ago in the most exquisitely decorated tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Queens. Discovered in 1904 by Italian explorer Ernesto Schiaparelli, the tomb had deteriorated to a disastrous extent when emergency consolidation began in 1986. The six-year conservation project of the GCI and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization was completed in 1992. In this fascinating exploration of the tomb, John McDonald takes the reader through each chamber, describing the hieroglyphic messages depicted in the brilliant wall paintings and discussing the images within the context of Egyptian beliefs. He also offers insights into the life of Nefertari, the development and symbolism of royal tombs, and the construction and decoration of the tombs. House of Eternity is illustrated with historic black-and-white images and more recent color photographs that reveal the vibrant beauty of the wall paintings. In November 1995 the tomb was reopened to the public. Because of the potential for damage and deterioration to the fragile wall paintings caused by increased humidity, carbon dioxide, and microbiological activity introduced by visitors to the tomb, the number permitted to enter daily is strictly controlled by the Egyptian authorities. This book results from a desire of the GCI to enrich visitors' experience by providing a detailed descriptive walk-through of the tomb while conveying a strong message regarding the need for conservation and continuous monitoring to ensure the long-term survival of the tomb's paintings. Visitors to the tomb and the armchair traveler alike will find House of Eternity to be an excellent resource for understanding Nefertari's journey to the afterlife and for appreciating the extraordinary depictions of that journey on the walls of Nefertari's tomb.
Author | : British Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This introduction to Greek and Roman art begins with the Greek Bronze Age and continues through the Geometric, Classical and Hellenistic periods and the Etruscans of pre-Roman Italy, to the Romans themselves, whose influence extended across the Mediterranean.
Author | : Lidewijde de Jong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107131413 |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.
Author | : Marjorie Susan Venit |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107048087 |
This book explores the visual narratives of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (c.300 BCE-250 CE). The author contextualizes the tombs within their social, political, and religious context and considers how the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.
Author | : Jon Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134792719 |
In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are: * Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt * burying the Jewish dead * Roman religion and Roman funerals * Early Christian burial * the nature of martyrdom. Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death, burial and the afterlife in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship between social change and attitudes to death and dying.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2011-12-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781468024111 |
And therefore the desire of truth, especially in what relates to the Gods, is a sort of grasping after divinity, it using learning and enquiry for a kind of resumption of things sacred, a work doubtless of more religion than any ritual purgation or charge of temples whatever, and especially most acceptable to the Goddess you serve, since she is more eminently wise and speculative, and since knowledge and science (as her very name seems to import) appertain more peculiarly to her than any other thing. For the name of Isis is Greek, and so is that of her adversary Typhon, who, being puffed up through ignorance and mistake, pulls in pieces and destroys that holy doctrine, which she on the contrary collects, compiles, and delivers down to such as are regularly advanced unto the deified state; which, by constancy of sober diet, and abstaining from sundry meats and the use of women, both restrains the intemperate and voluptuous part, and habituates them to austere and hard services in the temples, the end of which is the knowledge of the original, supreme, and mental being, which the Goddess would have them enquire for, as near to herself and as dwelling with her.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Garstang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Beni Hasan (Egypt) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. A. Wallis Budge |
Publisher | : Wellfleet Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1577151216 |
A collection of ancient Egyptian magic spells and road maps to assist individuals through the underworld and into the afterlife.