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Ushebti
(187 words)
[German version] (Egyptian
wšb.ty, 'answerer', secondarily from
šb.ty, of uncertain meaning). Term for a small magical figure in the Egyptian cult of the dead (Dead, cult of the).
Ushebtis are made of wood, stone or faience, usually representing the dead person in the form of a mummy, sometimes laid out in a coffin. Based on the associated magic spell, which was often written on the figure (spell 472 of the Coffin Texts, spell 6 of the Book of the Dead, cf. [2]), they were supposed to answer on behalf of the dead person if he was called to do work in the Afterlife, and do it in his place. The earliest
ushebti, made of wax, appeared in the Eleventh Dynasty (
c. 2050 BC); still rare in the Middle Kingdom, large groups of them (ideally a figure for each day of the year, an overseer for each ten and a scribe), usually placed in special chests, were common grave goods in later periods.
Ushebtis appear only rarely in ritual deposits outside…
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Gizeh
(192 words)
[German version] Egyptian necropolis for the residence of the Old Kingdom (2700-2190 BC) on a plateau in the Libyan desert west of Cairo that juts out prominently. The pyramid complexes of the Kings Cheops, Chefren and Mycerinus from the 4th dynasty (
c. 2600-2400 BC) characterize the place; they are surrounded by the mastabas and cliff tombs of the members of th…
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Sphinx
(1,195 words)
(Σφίγξ/
Sphínx, also ἀνδροσφίγξ/
androsphínx: Hdt. 2,175; Boeotian: φίξ/
phíx; pl. Σφίγγες/
Sphínges). [German version] I. Egypt Depiction of th…
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Senis
(142 words)
[German version] (Σῆνις;
Sênis; Demotic
Snj). Greek form of the Egyptian toponym
Snm.t, which is documented under various names, particularly Τμουσάνις/
Tmousánis ('the island of
Snj').
Snm.t…
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Apotropaic texts
(342 words)
[German version] In Egyptian magic for warding off enemies, a figure made of clay, wax, wood or stone that resembled the fettered enemy was inscribed with the name of the person against whom the spell was meant to work. Spell 37 from the coffin texts describes this process and instructs the person casting the spell to bury the figure in a graveyard after reciting a magic spell. These so-called apotropaic figures, whose inscriptions were aimed against individual persons (sometimes grouped with fam…
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Saqqara
(325 words)
[German version] Necropolis area with a length of
c. 7.5 km at the edge of the Libyan desert south of Cairo. The heartland (S. north) was laid out in the 1st Dynasty (around 3000 BC) as a necropolis of Memphis on a …
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Pyramid
(2,023 words)
(Egyptian
mr, Greek πυραμίς/
pyramís, Lat.
pyramis). Monumental funerary structure, originally of the Egyptian kings, on a square layout, with, in the ideal case, planar triangular sides. The term in archaeology for the apex of the pyramid, formed from a single block of stone and often especially decorated, is
pyramidion (Egyptian
bnbn.t). [German version] I. Origin and interpretation The two oldest phases of the first pyramid, the step-pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara (
c. 2700 BC), still display the simple
mastaba form on a confined rectangular plan, whi…
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Chous
(328 words)
(χοῦς, χοεύς;
choûs,
choeús). [German version] [1] Jug or decanter Jug or decanter (height a little over 20 cm); used on the second day of the Anthesteria during the wine-drinking competition. Probably used as a measure of volume for the prescribed quantity of wine. On Choes Day the three-year-old children receive a small choes decanter (H 6-8 cm) as a symbol of their entry into life. [2, 50f.; 1, 96ff.]. As a measure of volume for liquids the
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Imuthes
(205 words)
[German version] [1] see Petobastis IV see Petobastis IV Seidlmayer, Stephan Johannes (Berlin) [German version] [2] Official of Heliopolis (Imhotep; Egyptian
Jj-m-Ḥtp; Greek Ἰμούθης/
Imoúthēs). Documented in contemporary inscriptions and papyri at the beginning of the 3rd Dynasty (around 2650 BC) under Djoser and Sechemchet as the highest ranking official, senior demesne administrator and high priest of Heliopolis, perhaps also in the (cult?) role of senior sculptor and site manager. In light of later tradition, he …
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Funerary architecture
(5,482 words)
[German version] I. Definition Funerary architecture (FA) refers to architectonically designed structures built above the contemporary ground level for the purpose of burial, as opposed to underground hypogea, which have rooms for the cult of the dead and hero c…
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Amenophis
(491 words)
(Jmn-ḥtp ‘Amun is satisfied’). Name of four Egyptian kings of the 18th Dynasty. [German version] [1] 1525-1504 BC 1525-1504 BC. Continuing the policy of his father Ahmose, A. pursued the re-conquering of Nubia and prepared the final blow to the empire of Kush. Recorded in many places in Egypt as the instigator of works of construction. In the time of Rameses, he was worshipped together with his mother Ahmes-Nefertari as the tutelary god of the Theban necropolis. Seidlmayer, Stephan Johannes (Berlin) [German version] [2] 1428-1402 BC 1428-1402 BC. During the course of several camp…
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