Crowns in Egyptian funerary literature
Subtitle: royalty, rebirth, and destruction
By: by Katja Goebs.
Series: Griffith Institute monographs
Publisher: Griffith Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780900416873
Subjects: Egyptian literature -- History and criticism; Crowns; Kings and rulers in literature; Egypt -- Kings and rulers; Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C
Description: "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." "The book discusses occurrences of the White, Red, and Double Crowns in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts, as well as other selected examples. A major section reinterprets the famous "Cannibal Spell" as a description of sunrise that fits seamlessly with the themes of other texts." "This study will be of great interest not just to Egyptologists but also for the parallels it offers for styles of royal and divine symbolism that are found in many civilizations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-419) and indexes.