Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where the character and role of an individual—invariably a well-to-do non-royal elite official or administrator—were presented purposefully: published by inscription and image, to a contemporary audience and to posterity.
Living Forever: Self-presentation in Ancient Egypt looks at how and why non-royal elites in ancient Egypt represented themselves, through language and art, on monuments, tombs, stelae, and statues, and in literary texts, from the Early Dynastic Period to the Thirtieth Dynasty. Bringing together essays by international Egyptologists and archaeologists from a range of backgrounds, the chapters in this volume offer fresh insight into the form, content, and purpose of ancient Egyptian presentations of the self. Applying different approaches and disciplines, they explore how these self-representations, which encapsulated a discourse with gods and men alike, yield rich historical and sociological information, provide examples of ancient rhetorical devices and repertoire, and shed light on notions of the self and collective memory in ancient Egypt.
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Contents
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Map of Ancient Egypt Chronology Abbreviations Foreword by James P. Allen Prefacev Introduction Hussein Bassir 1 Egyptian Self-Presentation Dynamics and Strategies Christopher Eyre 2 Self-Presentation in the Early Dynasties Juan Carlos Moreno García 3 Self-Presentation in the Fourth Dynasty Hend Sherbiny 4 Self-Presentation in the Late Old Kingdom Hana Vymazalová 5 Self-Presentation in the Eleventh Dynasty Renata Landgráfová 6 Self-Presentation in the Twelfth Dynasty Ronald Leprohon 7 Self-Presentation in the Second Intermediate Period R. Gareth Roberts 8 Self-Presentation in the Eighteenth Dynasty Hana Navratilova 9 Self-Presentation in the Ramesside Period Colleen Manassa Darnell 10 Self-Presentation in the Third Intermediate Period Roberto B. Gozzoli 11 Self-Presentation in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Jeremy Pope 12 Self-Presentation in the Late Dynastic Period Damien Agut-Labordère 13 Women’s Self-Presentation in Pharaonic Egypt Mariam Ayad 14 Traditions of Egyptian Self-Presentation Hussein Bassir
A propos de l’auteur
Hussein Bassir, with a Ph D in Egyptology and Near Eastern archaeology from Johns Hopkins University, is director of the Antiquities Museum and Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology, Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He is the author of Image and Voice in Saite Egypt (2014).
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