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reign when the chapel for Ramesses I at Abydos was being decorated, and to a later one towards the end of Seti' s life during his alleged coregency with Ramesses II. Mysliwiec's treatment of Seti's later relief style, found at Abydos, Gumah, KV 17 and the Karnak Hypostyle Hall, is masterful, but
deified, for he holds the crook and flail in one hand and a mace in the other. Behind him Prince Ramesses holds aloft a bw-fan behind his father that serves as a mark both ofRamesses' status as a royal son and of Seti's divinity. 114 This divine iconography is appropriate both for living and deceased
HEIKE BEHLMER THE CITY AS METAPHOR IN THE WORKS OF TWO PANOPOLITANS: SHENOUTE AND BESA* A constant presence in the political and religious life of Late Antique Panopolis - and vice versa - was the Monastery of Apa Shenoute across the Nile. 1 Real-life Panopolis and its inhabitants though as
). Either way, Cauville reaches the heart of the matter: Osiris, as the m˙w, floats—sus- pended—between the two worlds of life and death, that is, outside the cycle of enduring life. 12 Borghouts, Magical Texts, ix. Thoth’s rescue of Osiris makes up a “mythischen Präzedenzfall,” Osing, Papyrus, 49. 98
Meritefnut should continue in life ( Ꜥnḫ ḥm.t-nṯr Mry.t-Tfnw.t ), followed immediately by a reference to Shepenwepet II as “living” ( Ꜥnḫ.tἰ ). If Meritefnut were the missing prenomen of Amenirdis II, then a co-tenure between her and Shepenwepet II appears unavoidable. Such an arrangement must not be
specific environment with flora, fauna, minerals, and human life represented, reinforce the documentary sense that the expedition leaders effectively reached a land different from any land in the ancient Egyptian imagination and expectation. However, notwithstanding the amount of details represented
exhibits figural and textual offerings on many subjects (religious, historical), in many media (carving, ink), and on a variety of canvasses (rock cliffs, temple walls). Inscriptional content reveals that rock inscription carving was motivated by many different primary goals: they could serve as
immediately above the representation of an animal is in fact its generic name and nothing else (such as the name of the animal while it is engaged in certain activities, or the name of the animal at a certain stage in its life), then we may be justified in saying that the figure in our relief is an x, and
, and indeed substantives as well as adjectives. Thus an χ (anech) signifies: to live, life, alive, a living being . 26 This explanation of undifferentiated parts of speech reflects the lack of morphological knowledge in the pre-Berlin School period whose members would later usher the study of the
vessels of choice and “workhorses” of ancient Egypt. So dominant was maritime life in the Egyptian worldview that the earth was imagined as floating on a universe of inert and dark primordial waters, known as nw or nwn . 15 It should not be surprising, then, that watercraft were an essential part of