May 2024 Q&A

Show Notes

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Evolution of Temple Architecture

• Digital Karnak

• Blyth, E. (2006) Karnak : evolution of a temple  / Elizabeth Blyth. New York, NY: Routledge.

• Wilkinson, R. H. (2000) The complete temples of ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson.

• For Pre-formal → Formal temples see, Kemp, B. J. (2018) Ancient Egypt : anatomy of a civilization : pbk. 3rd ed. Routledge.

Hypostyle Hall of Karnak (J.Galczynski ©)

Rekhyt Bird Meaning

• Griffin, Kenneth 2018. All the rxyt-people adore: the role of the rekhyt-people in Egyptian religion. GHP Egyptology 29. London: Golden House Publications. 

• Griffin, Kenneth 2007. A reinterpretation of the use and function of the Rekhyt rebus in New Kingdom temples. In Cannata, Maria and Christina Adams (eds), Current research in Egyptology 2006: proceedings of the seventh annual symposium which took place at the University of Oxford, April 2006, 66-84. Oxford: Oxbow.

• Niwiński, Andrzej 2014. Did the Pat-people and the Rekhyt-people have different burial ceremonies? In Jucha, Mariusz A., Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin, and Piotr Kołodziejczyk (eds), Aegyptus est imago caeli: studies presented to Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz on his 60th birthday, 253-260. Kraków: Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków; Archaeologica Foundation.

Rekhyt birds hanging on the standards on the top register; Scorpion Mace head (Ashmolean Museum)

Ramses III as a Rekhyt (Kenneth Griffin: Images of the Rekhyt from Ancient Egypt. In: Ancient Egypt, Vol. 7, Nr. 2, Issue Nr. 38. Empire Publications, Manchester 2006, S. 50)

Sex & Aphrodisiacs

• Norris, Pauline 2020. Lettuce as an offering to Mnw (Min). In Maravelia, Alicia and Nadine Guilhou (eds), Environment and religion in ancient and Coptic Egypt: sensing the cosmos through the eyes of the divine. Proceedings of the 1st Egyptological conference of the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, co-organized with the Writing & Scripts Centre of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Institute of Coptic Studies (University of Alexandria), at the People's University of Athens, under the high auspices of his Eminence Mgr Damianos, archbishop of Sinai; Athens: Wednesday 1st, Thursday 2nd Friday 3rd February 2017, 317-329. Oxford: Archaeopress. 

• Leitz, Christian 1999. Magical and medical papyri of the New Kingdom. Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum 7. London: The British Museum Press. 

• The Contendings of Horus and Seth

• Guiter, Jacques 2001. Contraception en Égypte ancienne. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 101, 221-236

• Ladinig-Morawetz, Franz-Stephan 2023. Defining "magic" using the example of Egyptian gynaecology. In Aguizy, Ola el- and Burt Kasparian (eds), ICE XII: proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists, 3rd-8th November 2019, Cairo, Egypt 2, 1109-1115. [Cairo]: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

  

  Lettuce gone to seed

• Casini, Emanuele 2018. Rethinking the mutifaceted aspects of mandrake in ancient Egypt. Egitto e Vicino Oriente 41, 101-115. DOI: 10.12871/97888333918616.

• Mathieu, Bernard 1999. L'univers végétal dans les chants d'amour égyptiens. In Aufrère, Sydney H. (ed.), Encyclopédie religieuse de l'univers végétal: croyances phytoreligieuses de l'Égypte ancienne 1, 99-106. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III.