Crowns in Egyptian Funerary Literature: Royalty, Rebirth, and Destruction

by Katja Goebs

This book presents a new approach to analysing the image of ancient Egyptian kings and gods. The author studies textual evidence rather than the often stereotyped iconography, focusing on mentions of the king's White and Red Crowns and demonstrating that they possess a wide-ranging symbolism that transcends the terrestrial sphere to encompass the divine and the cosmos, death and rebirth. In funerary texts of the Old and Middle Kingdoms (ca. 2300-1700...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0900416874
• ISBN13: 9780900416873
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Griffith Institute
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.7"