Mekes – Creating an Imagery of Kingship and Transmission of power in Ancient Egypt
Summary
The mekes was an important element of the royal ceremonial regalia. Started from the reign of the First Dynasty’s pharaoh Den (2914—2867 BC), the mekes was frequently depicted in reliefs, where the pharaoh grasps it in his raised left hand with the 
-flail in the other, while performing a ritual race during his coronation’s ceremonies. The aim of the present article is to build upon the analysis included in previous studies, to propose an accurate translation for this object and its meaning, and to demonstrate its political and socio-religious connotations communicated by its iconography. After a survey of previous studies, the question of its name will be briefly tackled, and an analysis of its attestations will be presented. However, given the largess of potential data sources, we have delimited the survey to the inscriptions of Edfu temple as a sample to the Ptolemaic and Roman temples.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Wolf-Peter Funk
- Wolfhart Westendorf
- Zur Frühentstehung der Osirisliturgien an den Beispielen der Kapellen des Osiris Ptah Neb Anch und Osiris Neb Anch in Karnak
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Saroy of TT 233 in the Tomb of Samut-Kyky (TT 409)
- La tablette comptable British Museum EA 29558
- Zwei demotische Papyri aus Soknopaiu Nesos in der Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Utrecht
- Fragment einer präparierten und linierten Kalksteintafel mit Auszug aus dem Hymnus auf Amun-Re von pBoulaq 17 (oDeM 1793)
- The Shabti of the Lady of the House Iahhetep and the Emergence of Female Shabtis in the New Kingdom
- Patterns and Practices of Sign-Form Variation
- L’auteur de la porte d’Amon à Karnak
- Papyrus Havana Book of the Dead spell 194
- Mekes – Creating an Imagery of Kingship and Transmission of power in Ancient Egypt
- The Destruction of ‘Mankind’
