Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt : Arenas for Ritual Activity.
This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Note to the Reader -- Chapter I The Internal Division of Houses -- I.1. The aithrion-house -- I.2. The oikia dipurgia (two-towered house) -- I.3. Rural Houses -- I.4. Conclusion -- Figure 1. The ground plan of the house drawn in P.Oxy. XXIII.2406, the second century AD. -- Figure 2. Model of a house, Graeco-Roman period, British Museum, No. 2462. -- Figure 3. Model of a house, Graeco-Roman period, Cairo Museum. -- Figure 5. Alston's Reconstruction of a Pharaonic house with two towers attached to the frontage. -- Figure 4. Tower-houses at Karanis. -- Figure 6. An oven in the courtyard of a house at Karanis. -- Figure 7. An olive press in the courtyard of a house at Karanis. -- Chapter II The Domestic Pylon -- II.1. Representations of Domestic Pylons in the Pharaonic Period -- II.2. Entranceways in Greek Papyri -- II.3. Other Domestic Entranceways -- II.4. The Architectural Layout of the Domestic Pylon -- II.5. The Use of the Domestic Pylon -- II.6. Conclusion -- Figure 8. The pylon of the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu. -- Figure 9. The two-towered pylon of the royal palace in the tomb of Meryra at Tell El-Amarna. -- Figure 10. The double-towered pylon of a palace in the Tomb of Meryra at Tell El-Amarna. -- Figure 11. Representation of an Egyptian villa in the tomb of Sennefer (TT 96). -- Figure 12. Reconstruction of an Egyptian villa in the tomb of Sennefer (TT 96). -- Figure 13. The propylon of the theatre at Antinoopolis in 1799. -- Figure 14. The Triumphal Arch at Antinoopolis in 1799. -- Figure 15. The propylon of the gymnasium at Cyrene. -- Chapter III Ritual Activities Enacted Before the Front Door of Houses -- III.1. The Front Door of Houses -- III.2. The Sacrifice of Fish on 9 Thoth (Julian: 7/8 September). | |
| 505 | 8 | |a III.3. The Sacrifice of Pigs on 15 Pachon (Julian: 10 May) -- III.4. Conclusion -- Figure 16. The front door of House C68 at Karanis. -- Figure 17. The front door of House C50 in Karanis. -- Figure 18. The bolt-case of the front door of House C50 in Karanis. -- Figure 19. The entry and exit of a house at Karanis. -- Figure 20. A street in Karanis. -- Figure 21. The sacrifice of a hippopotamus on the inner ambulatory of Edfu temple. -- Chapter IV The Illumination of Lamps (Lychnocaia) for Athena-Neith on 13 Epeiph (Julian: 24 June) -- IV.1. The Festival of Lamps in Herodotus' Histories -- IV.2. Lamps in Ancient Egyptian Religion and Magic -- IV.3. Evidence for the Illumination of Lamps for Athena-Neith in Graeco-Roman Egypt -- IV.4. The Goddess Athena-Neith -- IV.5. The Symbolism of the Illumination of Lamps -- IV.6. The Illumination of Lamps: An Ethnic Perspective -- IV.7. Conclusion: -- Figure 22. Gardiner's sign R7. -- Figure 23. An Egyptian floating wick saucer lamp found at Kom Hadid locus 7613. -- Figure 25. A terracotta Osiriform lamp found in House 11 at Karanis, Kelsey Museum 6478. -- Figure 24. Petosiris accompanied by a hieroglyphic inscription alluding to the Khoiak mysteries of Osiris. -- Figure 26. An Osiriform bronze lamp at the Museum of Hatay. -- Figure 27. Neith with her martial emblems, the bow and the arrows. -- Figure 28. The ensign of the Saite nome. -- Figure 29. Fully armed Athena on a third century AD Roman lamp. -- Figure 30. Lantern of helmeted Athena inside a Greek temple in the Museum of Alexandria. -- Figure 31. Lantern of Athena-Neith inside an Egyptian temple in the Louvre Museum. -- Figure 32. The domestic shrine with holes for holding lamps in House C119 at Karanis, Kelsey Museum Archives 812. -- Figure 33. The Thracian Heron and Isis suckling Harpocrates in House B50 at Karanis, Kelsey Museum Archive 5.2159. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter V The House as Social Space -- V.1. Dining in the House -- V.2. Birthdays -- V.3. The Mallokouria -- V.4. The Epikrisis -- V.5. Marriage -- V.6. Conclusion -- Chapter VI The House as Religious Space -- VI.1. Domestic shrines -- VI.2. Wall Paintings and Figurines -- VI.3. Conclusion -- Figure 34. A cupboard niche in a house at Karanis -- Figure 35. The domestic shrine in room B of House C60 at Karanis. -- Figure 36. The domestic shrine in house C71 at Karanis. -- Figure 37. Harpokrates and Tithoes on the south wall of alcove CF4 of House C65 at Karanis. -- Figure 38. Polis and Olympian deities watch the adultery of Aphrodite and Ares. -- Figure 39. Serenos and his family at a meal, accompanied by a flautist. -- Figure 40. Swaddled doll-figurine, 8 × 3 cm, Kelsey Museum, 26413. -- Figure 41. Terracotta figure of Isis-Hathor or Isis-Aphrodite, c. 300-100 BC, British Museum, 1888, 0601.110. -- Figure 42. Terracotta figure of female tambour player, c. AD 1-200. -- Figure 43. Pottery vessel marked 'eulogia', c. AD 100-300, British Museum, OA.9431. -- Chapter VII The House as Funerary Space -- VII.1. Mourning rituals for Dead Animals: the Case of Dogs -- VII.1.1. Animal Cult in Ancient Egypt -- VII.1.2. The Dog in the Myth of Isis and Osiris -- VII.1.3. Other Capabilities of Dogs -- VII.1.4. Dogs in the Dynastic Period -- VII.1.5. Dogs in the Graeco-Roman Period -- VII.1.5.1. Anubis/Hermes (Hermanubis) -- VII.1.5.2. The "Dog-headed One" in Greek Papyri -- VII.1.5.3. Anubis and the Lunar Disc of Osiris in Birth-houses (mammises) of Egyptian Temples -- VII.1.5.4. Mourning Rituals for Dead Dogs in Houses -- VII.1.6. Mummification and Burial in Sacred Hypogea -- VII.2. Mourning Rituals for Dead Humans -- VII.2.1. The Osirian Myth and Burial Rituals -- VII.2.2. Burial as Necessity and Obligation -- VII.2.3. The Egyptian Mode of Burial. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a VII.2.3.1. The Ekphora -- VII.2.3.2. The Peristolē -- VII.2.3.3. The Kēdeia -- VII.2.3.4. The Apostolē and Beyond -- VII.2.3.5. The Tribunal -- VII.2.3.6. The Opening of the Mouth Ritual -- VII.2.3.7. The Funerary Banquet -- VII.3. Conclusion -- Figure 44. A dog beneath its master's chair on a Ptolemaic situla in the Cleveland Museum of Art. -- Figure 45. A relief of the 5th Dynasty shows a dog catching a gazelle by the leg, while another attacks a hyena from the neck, the Metropolitan Museum of New York. -- Figure 46. A sketch of the 20th Dynasty shows a Pharaoh spearing a lion with the help of his dog, the Metropolitan Museum of New York. -- Figure 47. A Ptolemaic canine-headed anthropomorphic statuette of Anubis in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. -- Figure 48. A canine terracotta mask of Anubis. -- Figure 49. Dogs buried with children at Qasr Allam in the Bahariya oasis. -- Figure 50. The falcon/Horus and the dog/Anubis on a funerary stelea from Terenouthis (Kom Abu Bellou). -- Figure 51. An #X |Qr n=Ro stela. -- Figure 52. An anthropomorphic bust belonging to a domestic cult of the dead. -- Figure 53. A stela from Abydos showing a woman involved in worshipping an ancestral bust. -- Figure 54. The first century AD mummy-cupboard of Padikhons from Abusir el-Melek. -- Figure 55. The Opening of the Mouth ritual on the papyrus of Nesitanebisheru, the daughter of Pinedjem II, who died around 930 BC. -- General conclusion -- Appendix 1 Catalogue of Roman-period Houses -- 1. Houses in the Fayum, the Arsinoite: -- 1.1. A sample of houses at Karanis (Kom Aushim): -- 1.1.1. House C42 -- 1.1.2. House C43 -- 1.1.3. House C45 -- 1.1.4. House C50/51 -- 1.1.10. House C68 -- 1.1.5. House C56 -- 1.1.6. House C57 -- 1.1.7. House C59 -- 1.1.8. House C60 -- 1.1.9. House C62 -- 1.1.11. House C71 -- 1.1.12. House C119 -- 1.2. Houses at Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimê):. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.2.1. House II 201 -- 1.2.2. Houses II 202, II 203 and II 204 -- 1.2.3. Houses on the West Area -- 1.3. Houses at Bacchias (Kom Umm el-Atl): -- 1.4. Houses at Philadelphia (Kom el-Kharab el-Kebir): -- 1.5. Houses at Tebtunis (Kom Umm el-Boreigat): -- 1.5.1. House No. 1100 -- 1.5.2. House No. 3000 -- 1.5.3. House No. 3200 -- 1.10. Houses at Dionysias (Qasr Qarun): -- 1.6. Houses at Kom Medinet Ghoran: -- 1.7. Houses at Narmuthis (Kom Medinet Maadi): -- 1.8. Houses at Theadelphia (Kharabit Ihrit): -- 1.9. Houses at Euhemeria (Qasr el-Banat): -- 2. Houses in the Dakhla Oasis, the Thebaid: -- 2.1. Houses at Kellis (Ismant El-Kharab): -- 2.1.1. Houses Nos. 1, 2, and 3 -- 2.1.2. House No. B/3/1 -- 2.2. Houses at Trimithis (Amheida): -- 2.2.1. The House of Serenos -- 2.2.2. The House of Area 1 -- Bibliography -- Back Cover. | |
| 520 | |a This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing. | ||
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| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
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