Mariam F. Ayad

God's Wife, God's Servant (eBook, ePUB)

The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740-525 BC)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject, placing the women within the broader context of the politically volatile, turbulent seventh and eighth centuries BCE.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134127924
• Artikelnr.: 38453318

Autorenporträt

Mariam F. Ayad is Assistant Director, Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, University of Memphis; previous career at American University in Cairo and at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION 3 PART I: The Historical Setting 6 The God's Wife: Historical
Development and associated titles 7 Text Box 1.1 The Mythic Conception I:
Atum and the Heliopolitan Creation Myth 9 The God's Wife Prior to the New
Kingdom 10 The God's Wife During the New Kingdom 12 Text Box 1. 2: The
Mythic Conception II: The King's Divine Conception 15 Egypt at the End of
the New Kingdom 18 Egypt during the Libyan Period 23 The Nubians in Egypt
24 The Libyan and Nubian God's Wives of Amun 34 Egypt under Saite Rule 47
Nitocris 48 Ankhnesneferibre, The Last God's Wife of Amun 55 Text Box 1.3:
Amun, Mut, and the Throne Names of the God's Wives 59 Part II: Rites and
Rituals 70 Entertaining the Gods 73 Playing Music: Shaking the Sistrum 74
Text Box 2.1: The sistrum, the menat-necklace and objects sacred to Hathor
101 Provisioning the Gods: Offering to the Gods 103 Wine 103 Food 109 Cool
Water/ Incense 113 A Boon, which the King Gives 118 Maat 119 Building
Houses for the Gods/ Dedicating Shrines 136 Partnering with the King (I):
Symmetrically Opposed Scenes 143 In Providing for the Gods 143 Rewarded by
the Gods 156 Partnering with the King (II): For God, King, and Country 163
In Protecting the Gods 163 Rites of Protection at the Cenotaph 163 Burning
Fans 170 Rites at Kom Djeme 180 Rejuvenating the gods 184 The Elevation of
the tjest-support 184 Rites of Divine Reentrance 188 Other rites of Royal
and Divine Dominion 196 Driving Four Calves 198 Striking Chests 205
Celebrating the sed festival 210 PART III: Avenues to Legitimacy 221
Assumption of the Priesthood 223 The Gradual Appropriation of Priestly
Duties 224 Text Box 3.1: The God's Wife and Initiation Rites 231
Purification Rites 232 Priestly Companions and Priestly Rank 234 Avenues to
Legitimacy 238 Shepenwepet I 238 Suckling Scenes 239 Crowning Scenes 243
Amenirdis I 246 Shepenwepet II 253 Divine marriage iconography 257 Nitocris
262 Ankhnesneferibre 265 Text box 3.2: Adoption, Succession to Office, and
Age at Appointment 268 Text Box 3.3: Sexuality, Celibacy and the Sexual
Role of the God's Wife 275 Celibacy re-visited 275 The Egyptians' Attitude
towards Marriage and Sex 278 Contraceptives in Ancient Egypt 284
Prohibitions Against Sexual Activity in Ancient Egypt 285 The God's Wife
Sexual Role & Her Association with ithyphallic gods 288 Epilogues 291 List
of Abbreviations 296 Bibliography 297