Liber Amicorum–Speculum Siderum: Nūt Astrophoros
Papers Presented to Alicia Maravelia
Edited by Nadine Guilhou Assisted by Antigoni Maniati
Paperback (Published)
(January 2017)
ISBN: 9781784915223
8.07 x 11.46 inches
Price: $112.00
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In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia.
In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries (Hellas, Egypt, France, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Turkey, Australia) have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia, whose important work in Egyptology and in the foundation of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology are highly acknowledged. This book, with foreword by His Eminence the Archbishop of Sinai and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St Catherine, Mgr Damianos, contains thirty original articles, two abstracts and a plethora of accompanying texts including Dr Maravelia’s list of publications. The book is divided into three parts: 1. Nut and the Realm of Stars [15 contributions]; 2. Ancient Egyptian Religion and its Celestial Undertones [12 contributions]; and 3. Ancient Egyptian Science, Medicine, Archaeoanthropology, Egyptomania, Egyptophilia, etc. [5 contributions]. The reader will find papers that deal mainly with the goddess Nut and her mythology and cosmographic notions related to her, the stars and other celestial luminaries, orientations of monuments, ancient Egyptian constellations and decans, the notion of time, calendars, religious and funerary observances related to the sky, ancient Egyptian religion, religious and amuletic artefacts, religious mythology, as well as archaeoanthropological and medicinal studies, papers on ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Egyptophilia, Egyptomania and ancient Egyptian collections.
PART I: NUT AND THE REALM OF STARS: Niels BILLING: The Dialogue of Geb and Nut in Relation to the Royal Sarcophagus in the Pyramid of King Pepy I; Nadine GUILHOU: Le Soleil dans les Bras de Nut dans les Tombes Thebaines; Mykola TARASENKO: The Children of Nut and their Rebellion in Chapter 175A of the Book of the Dead; Bernard ARQUIER: L'Asterisme du Belier dans l'Ancienne Egypte; Azza EZZAT: Staircases in Ancient Egyptian Pools: Iconographic Attestations and Ouranographic Connotations; Brigitte VALEE: Les Hypocephales et la Deesse Celeste Nut; Kurt LOCHER: Gods Coming from the Left - Possible Astronomical Origins of Religious Processions; Sabine STEMMLER-HARDING: Devil in Disguise - On the Stellar Mythology of cApophis and its Potential Connection to the Constellation @tp-Rdwy; Frank GODDIO: Un Recit de la Creation ressurgit des Profondeurs; Anne-Sophie VON BOMHARD: The Genesis of the Stars in Ancient Egypt, according to the Naos of the Decades; Massimiliano FRANCI: Defining Time; Gaelle CHANTRAIN: Une Journee dans le Temps et l'Espace - Remarques Lexicales au Sujet de hrw et grH; Themis G. DALLAS: The Ancient Skyscape Over the Sanctuary of Egyptian Gods in Marathon; Mona HAGGAG: The Tazza Farnese: An Alexandrian Vision of the Cosmos; Jean-Pierre LEVET: Les Constellations Anthropomorphes de l'Hemisphere Nord et l'Astrosophie chez Ptolemee; PART II: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION, ART, HISTORY AND THEIR CELESTIAL UNDERTONES: Jean-Pierre PATZNICK: La Deesse d'Elephantine a l'Epoque Thinite - Tabouisation Locale du Nom Divin; Tatjana A. SHERKOVA: Sacral Numbers in Ancient Egypt - Historical and Psychological Study; Mohammed AZZAZY & Azza EZZAT: The Sycamore in Ancient Egypt - Textual, Iconographic & Archaeopaly- nological Thoughts; Ahmed MANSOUR: Notes on the Role of #tm(w)/#tmty-NTr in Turquoise Mining Expeditions; Dina 'EL-GABRY: A Fragmentary Dyad of Penwah and of his Wife Meryt - Cairo Museum JE 27955, CG 1003; Hamdy Ahmed 'EL-SOROGY: The Flea Insect as a New Symbol for God Seth; Hedvig GYORY: On the History of Feline Amulets - A Preliminary Study of Cat Amulets; Detlev QUINTERN: The Lion and the Mouse - Travelling Ethics; Sophia TSOURINAKI: Between Dionysos and Christ - Cosmological Images on a Hellenistic Funerary Textile; Ashraf-Alexandre SADEK: De la Spiritualite des Anciens Egyptiens a la Spiritualite Chretienne; Youhanna N. YOUSSEF: The Date of Consecration of the Sanctuary of Patriarch Benjamin; Manto PAPAIOANNOU: Psychostasia in Byzantine Art through the Iconography of Archangel Michael; PART III: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MATHEMATICS, MEDICINE, ARCHAEOANTHROPOLOGY AND EGYPTOMANIA: Irem ASLAN-SEYHAN: Considerations on the Study of Ancient Egyptian Mathematics in Modern Turkey; Stephanos GEROULANOS: An Introduction to Alexandrian Medicine & Surgery; Constantinos TRIANTAPHYLLIDIS: The Genetic History of Hellas, Egypt and of the Near East and the DNA Study of King Tutcankhamun; Adam LUKASZEWICZ: One more Hand that rocked the Cradle of Egyptology - Count Jan Potocki; Mladen TOMORAD: Aegyptiaca and Various Forms of Egyptomania in Croatia; Antigoni MANIATI: Brief CV & List of Publications of Prof. Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA; Evi BATRA: Epilogue - Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA & the Association of Greek Women Scientists
Nadine Guilhou studied French Literature, History of Art & Archaeology in the University Paul-Valery, Montpellier, obtaining her PhD in Egyptology under Prof. Dr Fr. Daumas. She specializes in ritual and funerary texts from the OK to the PP and has published many books and papers concerning this topic.
- Edited by Nadine Guilhou
- Assisted by Antigoni Maniati
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New Trends of Research on Iconography and Symbolism of Ancient Egyptian Coffins
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La provincia dell’Arpione Occidentale nei testi egiziani: ricerche storiche, geografiche e religiose dalle origini all’Epoca Romana
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