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Tutanchamuns Ruder. Über die Bewegungskraft der Materie im Alten Ägypten

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Published/Copyright: September 16, 2020
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Abstract

This article outlines a theory of the ancient Egyptian tomb as a material vessel of the pharao’s afterlife. With closed cavities, openings, and deliberately chosen contents, the tombs were highly ingenious, multi-layered models intended to explore the unknown: what happens after death. A close look at eleven types of steering oars discovered in the burial chamber of Tut.Ankh.Amen’s tomb identifies them as intermediate objects that connect the funerary texts inscribed on the pharaoh’s golden shrines and the realm of material things, illuminating ancient Egyptian expectations of the afterlife.

  1. Bildnachweis: 1 Flinders Petrie 1913 (wie Anm. 4). — 2, 7, 8 Jones 1990 (wie Anm. 29), Taf. I, VIII, XXXVIII. —3 André Wiese, Tutanchamun. Ein ganz normaler Grabschatz der 18. Dynastie?, in: André Wiese und Andreas Brodbeck (Hg.), Tutanchamun. Das goldene Jenseits. Grabschätze aus dem Tal der Könige (Ausst.-Kat. Basel, Antikenmuseum), Basel 2004, Abb. 1. — 4 Carter 1923–1933 (wie Anm. 20), Bd. 2, Taf. XLVI. — 5 Reproduced with permission of Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. — 6 Autorin. — 9a–b Piankoff/ Rambova 1955 (wie Anm. 15).

Published Online: 2020-09-16
Published in Print: 2020-09-25

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