Classifying the Duat
Summary
The notion of Duat plays a major role in ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs. Yet, a single definition of this notion is impossible to achieve, as it underwent a process of evolution over thousands of years without ever designating just one unambiguous place at a time. In this context, an approach based on cognitive linguistics and on the significance of the determinatives accompanying the word Duat can be exploited to shed more light on this elusive concept. The focus will be here on the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts as well as the intermediary phase of transmission of the funerary literature during the period between the end of the Old Kingdom and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Nachruf
- Karl-Heinz Priese
- Overseers of Upper Egypt
- Die Stundentexte zu Seiten der Nut auf der Innenseite des Deckels des inneren Sarges Milano E 0.9.40147 eines Peftjau(em)auuiaset
- Mögliche Dialektmerkmale in den Personennamen des Mittleren Reiches
- „Bruksch“ im Trajanskiosk
- Bemerkungen zum Papyrus Moskau 314
- Once More “the Beneficient King”
- Wahibreemakhet at Saqqara
- “Cylinder seals for the lower classes”
- Classifying the Duat
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Nachruf
- Karl-Heinz Priese
- Overseers of Upper Egypt
- Die Stundentexte zu Seiten der Nut auf der Innenseite des Deckels des inneren Sarges Milano E 0.9.40147 eines Peftjau(em)auuiaset
- Mögliche Dialektmerkmale in den Personennamen des Mittleren Reiches
- „Bruksch“ im Trajanskiosk
- Bemerkungen zum Papyrus Moskau 314
- Once More “the Beneficient King”
- Wahibreemakhet at Saqqara
- “Cylinder seals for the lower classes”
- Classifying the Duat