NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Hypostyle, Bent Pyramid, Old Kingdom Of Egypt
29 May 2022
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Two other pyramids after djoser: sekhemkhet, khaba, both in mephite necropolis. Conceptions meaning of the pyramd: palace = house of the living king, pyramid = house of the dead kind (complex, symbolic meaning stairway to skyp. Cemetery: tomb of hetepheres (khufu"s mother, tomb found south of khufu"s southway, best preserved valley temple, khaefre, beginning docus on the mortuary temple, 23 statues of khaefre. Temple of userkaf originally mound with enclosure: later obeslisk. Pyramids of the later ok: unis last king of dyn 5, first subterranean chambers with pyramid texts, pyramid and temple architecture freeze at the end of dyn 5. Aspects of the person: in death human likened to gods, immortal, interact with living out of tomb in cult or dreams, five different aspects of person or soul, 1. Akh effective part (luminous) intercede with gods on behalf of living: 2. Ka life force also double inhabits mummy or status unites with body at birth: 3.
