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Rogério Sousa
Rogério Sousa is Professor of Egyptology and Ancient History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He has been studying coffin decoration during the 21st Dynasty from an art historical perspective, focusing into the principles of composition, symbolism and social significance of coffins in Thebes. Currently he coordinates the Gate of the Priests Project aiming at the inventory and integrated study and publication of the objects found in the Tomb of the Priests of Amun (Bab el-Gasus) in Thebes. Under this project he has been studying an extensive collection of objects dispersed around the world. He is Co-Editor of the ‘Gate of the Priests’ Series; Publishing House: Brill Publishers, Leiden. Over the last years he has published a number of works in this domain: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun. Burial Assemblages in the Egyptian Museum of Florence Gate of the Priests Series Volume 1 (Brill, 2018) Gleaming Coffins. Iconography and Symbolism in Theban Coffin Decoration (21st Dynasty): Vol. I: the sheltering sky (Coimbra University Press, 2018) Gilded Flesh: Coffins and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (Oxbow, 2019) Burial assemblages from Bab el-Gasus in the Geographical Society of Lisbon (Brepols, 2017), Body, Cosmos & Eternity: New research trends in the symbolism of coffins in ancient Egypt (Archaeopress, 2014).
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complexity. The analysis concentrates on the central panel and examines the variations introduced in the normative scheme of this composition from the Ramesside Period to the beginning of Dynasty 22. This ‘genealogical’ method reveals that a consistent normative set of rules governed the iconographic repertoire, which could be used in each section of the coffin and simultaneously provided an efficient way to introduce
variations to enhance the uniqueness of each object. These processes are crucial to an understanding of the involvement of the priesthood of Amun-Ra in the supervision and management of Theban workshops
during Dynasty 21.
This volume thus represents the awakening of the international scientific community for the significance and importance of the Tomb of the Priests as a major archaeological find, one that can open new perspectives in the study of the Third Intermediate Period in Thebes.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
1. A dwelling by the Nile: The Predynastic grave of “Gebelein Man A”
2. On the path to Sokar: Solar splendours in the Mastaba of Ti
3. Facing the sun: The shaft tomb of Senebtisi
4. Flying back home: The grave of the “Gurnah Queen”
5. A house on the edge of the world: The Tomb of Kha and Merit (TT 8)
6. The Garden of Heaven: The family tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1)
7. The healing light: The burial assemblage of the priestess Tabasety
8. The divine brotherhood: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Papers by Rogério Sousa
complexity. The analysis concentrates on the central panel and examines the variations introduced in the normative scheme of this composition from the Ramesside Period to the beginning of Dynasty 22. This ‘genealogical’ method reveals that a consistent normative set of rules governed the iconographic repertoire, which could be used in each section of the coffin and simultaneously provided an efficient way to introduce
variations to enhance the uniqueness of each object. These processes are crucial to an understanding of the involvement of the priesthood of Amun-Ra in the supervision and management of Theban workshops
during Dynasty 21.
This volume thus represents the awakening of the international scientific community for the significance and importance of the Tomb of the Priests as a major archaeological find, one that can open new perspectives in the study of the Third Intermediate Period in Thebes.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
1. A dwelling by the Nile: The Predynastic grave of “Gebelein Man A”
2. On the path to Sokar: Solar splendours in the Mastaba of Ti
3. Facing the sun: The shaft tomb of Senebtisi
4. Flying back home: The grave of the “Gurnah Queen”
5. A house on the edge of the world: The Tomb of Kha and Merit (TT 8)
6. The Garden of Heaven: The family tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1)
7. The healing light: The burial assemblage of the priestess Tabasety
8. The divine brotherhood: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Despite the impact of the cult of Sarapis in the Hellenistic world, the origins of his cult remain unclear. In this article we put in contrast the references allusive to the origins of the god, which suggest a foreign origin of the cult, with those relative to the etymology, iconography and cult of the god, the later pointing out to an autochthonous origin of the cult of the Sarapis.
Denmark, comprises an anthropoid coffin, a mummy-cover and a mummy. Several analyses have been carried out on the
human remains since their arrival to the Museum in 1950 but these results have never been published nor critically accessed
from an Egyptological perspective. Notwithstanding the unique opportunity provided by this burial assemblage to carry out
the integrated study of the funerary equipment and the human remains, only recently has the coffin set been thoroughly
analysed, described and published. This paper presents the results obtained from former anthropological studies with an
Egyptological assessment of the data, comparing them with the information provided by the burial equipment. The critical
integration of this data reveals important clues regarding the special social status held by an elderly woman suffering from
a severe and chronic disability within the priesthood of Amun during the Twenty-first Dynasty
of demotic culture during Greco-Roman Period this chapter is focused on the Egyptian
background behind the multicultural tradition that rose in the Serapeum of Alexandria.
Despite of its Hellenistic atmosphere, the Alexandrian Serapeum was the cradle of a new
multicultural tradition: within its sacred precinct Greco-Egyptian deities received cult in
the temple of Sarapis, while a multicultural community of scholars was actively engaged
in the creation of a vast repertoire of texts and iconography. With its roots grounded on
the Egyptian wisdom, such tradition was expressed in Greek or demotic philosophical discourses
and was in use by a wide multicultural population, reaching so disparate territories
as the Egyptian oasis of the Western Desert or the shores of the Atlantic.
expect to find only one meaning attributed to it, nor that its meaning stayed unchangeable. In this study, our aim is to point out the main symbolic uses of the heart amulet through the analysis of its artistic rendering and also to suggest its variations throughout the Egyptian history.
et le rôle magique des amulettes de coeur.