The Ancient Egyptian Sed-Festival and the Exemption from Corvee
King and god based their relationship on reciprocal gestures, and the royal decree was presented as the compensation for the first sed-festival and Amun’s announcement of more to come. Its content is generally understood as an exemption from corvee granted to Amun’s cult personnel.
The Non-Royal Concept of the Afterlife in Amarna
In the Old and Middle Kingdoms the need for these physical objects was also met by providing the deceased with models of the various production processes
Pharaoh Sety II and Egyptian Political Relations with Canaan at the End of the Late Bronze Age
This paper had its origins in work undertaken by the first-named author while preparing publication of the Hebrew Union College expedition
Ramesses, "King of Kings": On the Context and Interpretation of Royal Colossi
The nature of kingship has been among the most intensively studied aspects of Egyptian culture and cannot be adequately addressed here. My interest lies specifically in the creation, definition and separation of distinct royal identities, mobilised through the colossi, which became the objects of cult. It is an axiom that the king of Egypt was held to be divine, although the concept was evidently mutable over time.
The Great Sphinx at Giza: Date and Function
The Sphinx is one of the most important monuments in the world. It is unique in ancient Egypt. It is also considered to be the first colossal royal statue in pharaonic Egypt (fig. I)
On the Egyptian origin of the domestic cat
The traditional opinion is that the cat was domesticated in place in Egypt from
wild local stock. SCHAUENBERG (1972) contradicted this hypothesis by showing that the
cranial index (ic = cranium length/volume of encephalic cavity) of the modern domestic cat was closer to that of the steppe cat (Felis ornata) of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan than that of the wild Libyan desert cat (Felis libyca).
The Games of Chess and Backgammon in Sasanian Persia
Reference to board games in Persia can be found as early as the Achaemenid period, where according to Plutarch a board game with dice was played by Artaxerxes.
Aspects of ancient Near Eastern chronology (c. 1600-700 BC)
The aim of my thesis has been to investigate the chronology of the Near East during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods (c. 1600–700 BC) to see whether or not the current ‘conventional’ chronology is as reliable as its adherents maintain…
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome Jennifer Trimble (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: September (2007) Abstract This paper…