Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt : : The Old and Middle Kingdoms /

Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt : : The Old and Middle Kingdoms / / Julia Troche.

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Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Tr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Troche, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Death and Power
  • 1. Mortuary Culture
  • 2. Akhu—The Effective Dead
  • 3. Power and Egyptian Kingship
  • Part Two: Apotheosis
  • 4. Markers of Distinguished and Deified Status
  • 5. Distinguished Dead
  • 6. Apotheosis in the Old Kingdom
  • 7. Apotheosis in the Middle Kingdom
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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