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especially of the life-giving wells and reservoirs that punctuated it at intervals, was paramount. It is quite logical, then, that intensified fortification of this trans-Sinai route should have been undertaken precisely at a period when warlike bedouin activity had rendered the area unsafe. Likewise, Seti
a neighboring town (perhaps, one suspects, at the instigation of Abdi- Ashirta),23 and it was thus out of unadulterated altruism and loyalty that Abdi-Ashirta intervened. He writes, “If I had not been staying in [Irqata], if I had been staying where life was peaceful, then the troops of Sekhlal
"aman (1977: 171–172; followed by Spalinger 1983: 99), who believes Nuges to be located in the Transjordan. This assignment, how- ever, appears largely motivated by a desire to place Nuges in close proximity to Yenoam. 18 Säve-Söderbergh 1946: 36; Alt 1959a: 135, 138; Na"aman 1977: 170–171; Drower 1980: 451
. Harris I, a posthumous celebration of the life of Ramesses III, describes Egypt’s devolution into chaos in the waning years of the Nineteenth Dynasty. During this time “the land of Egypt was abandoned; every man was a law to himself. They had no leader many years previously . . . Egypt had (only
insights from philosopher and cultural historian Michel De Certeau, 59 who is interested in the idea of the city as a locus of everyday life and the people who are actively engaged in the continuous production of living space. The views of Samuels and De Certeau with respect to ‘landscape authorship’ are
sees their blood, he is hetep . 5 Breath or a Breeze from Deities The breath ( tjau ) and breath of life that foreigners request of the Egyptian king also has connotations for living when Egyptians request it of deities. A New Kingdom prayer to Amun asks for breath from the deity. “Give breath
artist was a gifted portrait painter.7 Despite the fact that this portrait is perhaps the most true-to-life painting of Zoëga, it has never been widely known or reproduced.8 The painting is one of 22 portraits of members of the Accademia Volsca, a learned society founded by Cardinal Borgia in 1765
continuously, the god's image on earth (ibid., 99) or its "living divine ka" (Silverman, this volume) , we can see that the processional arrival of both disc and pharaoh in the city is designed to graphically enact this dictum, and make it literally part of the life of the city (O'Connor 1989a). It has also
existence as opposed to taking a point of departure in modern concepts such as ‘personality’ or ‘life force’. On the one hand, this approach accords a more central status to certain groups of sources than they have had in previous discussions, but on the other it also makes it possible to draw on the
its present-day form, the pyramid represents the sum total of all its transformations through time. Its early contemporaries witnessed the pyramid in its early life (set in a temporally different landscape), whereas we today witness it at a more advanced age 13 —which does not represent the end of its