AHIS281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ankh, Shen Ring, Pyramid Texts
12 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Dynasties 3 to 6 (ca 2686-2181 bc) Ma"at, king intermediary between the gods and earth. Fulled expressed and symbolised in this period. Funerary complex a stage for the funeral or the deceased kings eternal residence. Synchronic= limits concern to a particular moment of time. An interdependence between the degree of the complication of a pyramids internal plan and the form and decoration of the related mortuary temple. Stress could have been put on sculpture or on relief decoration. Standardisation of the plan of pyramid complexes roughly coincides with the insertion of the pyramid texts into the pyramid chambers. Preferred method/aspects useful for an investigation of royal mortuary (funeral) complex: Visual program sculpture (painted) relief, textual program, data on the social networks of cult, material properties, material culture, architectural form, landscape and space. Destruction over time (only found in fragments) Queens temples are different to that of kings. Sma tawy motif: fertility and tying together of both lands.
