Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 262, 175 Seiten
Reihe: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
Royal Apotheosis in a Most Concise Book of the Underworld and Sky
Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 262, 175 Seiten
Reihe: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
ISBN: 978-3-7278-1746-5
Verlag: Peeters Publishers
Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the
Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos is a representation of
the awakening of Osiris by Horus, which appears directly beneath a
vignette depicting the transit of the solar barques. The annotations to
this bi-partite tableau appear in a mixture of standard, hieroglyphic
Egyptian and cryptographic scripts. Similar groups of scenes and texts
occur in the Twentieth Dynasty royal tombs of Ramesses VI (KV9) and
Ramesses IX (KV6), the Twenty-Second Dynasty tomb of Sheshonq III at
Tanis (NRT5), and the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty private tomb of Mutirdis at
Thebes (TT410). In addition, significant, albeit partial parallels occur
on the re-carved, Twenty-Second Dynasty sarcophagus of Psusennes and a
Ptolemaic sarcophagus inscribed for a certain Khaf. This study offers a
summary of the scenes’ iconography together with the first synoptic
edition of the relevant annotations, taking into account all currently
published exemplars. Many of the cryptographic texts are translated here
for the first time, while others receive updated translations and
expanded analyses. Joshua Aaron Roberson also considers the meaning and
context of the paired scenes in royal and private monuments, in order to
demonstrate the status of the bi-partite tableau as a unified
composition. This composition is identified as a concise representative
of the cosmological genre referred to usually as the Books of the
Underworld and Sky.
