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Classifying the Duat

Tracing the Conceptualization of the Afterlife between Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts
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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 8. November 2018

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.

Published Online: 2018-11-08
Published in Print: 2018-11-02

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