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Hair and death in ancient Egypt : mourning rites in the Pharaonic period / María Rosa Valdesogo.
- Title
- Hair and death in ancient Egypt : mourning rites in the Pharaonic period / María Rosa Valdesogo.
- Author
- Valdesogo, María Rosa,
- Publication
- Zandvoort : BLKVLD Publishers, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- 106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
- Summary
- Mourners shake and pull their hair on reliefs and paintings from ancient Egypt. They took part in funerary ceremonies in ancient Egypt, contributing to the dead's resurrection in the afterlife. Hair played a clear role in these rites. In this publication Maria Rosa Valdesogo describes the relation between hair and these rites, and the role hair played in death in ancient Egypt. This book is the publication of her Phd research about the hair in the funerary ceremony of ancient Egypt.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9492940086
- 9789492940087
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries