Research Catalog

Hieroglyphs and the afterlife in ancient Egypt

Title
Hieroglyphs and the afterlife in ancient Egypt / Werner Forman and Stephen Quirke.
Author
Forman, Werner.
Publication
London : British Museum Press, ©1996.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextUse in library PJ1487 .F67 1996Off-site

Details

Additional Authors
Quirke, Stephen.
Description
192 p. : col. ill., maps; 29 cm.
Summary
"In ancient Egypt the strategy to achieve life after death relied on hieroglyphs, which united art and writing to help fulfil this ambition. This lavishly illustrated book tells the history of the texts that, through 3,000 years, were designed to ensure survival after death." "Egyptologist Stephen Quirke sets out the history of the texts designed to guarantee life beyond death, from the Pyramid Texts for kings and queens, c.2400 BC, to the Book of the Dead used by king and subject alike after 1600 BC. The literature that flourished for millennia met its end under the combined pressures of Greek-speaking government, Roman occupation, and conversion to Christianity." "Although Books of the Dead and other funerary manuscripts form the great bulk of surviving Pharaonic texts, no up-to-date survey of this material has been available to a general or scholarly readership. This book, based on a concept by Werner Forman, aims to fill that gap."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Egyptian literature > History and criticism
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies > Egypt
  • Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic
  • Future life
  • Egyptian literature
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Altägyptisch
  • Geistesgeschichte
  • Geschichte
  • Hieroglyphenschrift
  • Kultur
  • Egypt
  • Ägypten Altertum
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-186) and index.
Contents
1. Hieroglyphic Script and Art -- 2. Pyramids, Mute and Voiced -- 3. Human Made Divine: The Coffin Texts -- 4. Surviving Death in an Age of Empire -- 5. Revivals of the Past in the First Millennium BC -- 6. The Last Flowering: Preserving Afterlife in Roman Egypt -- Map of Ancient Egypt.
ISBN
  • 0806127511
  • 9780806127514
  • 0714109959
  • 9780714109954
LCCN
95045424
OCLC
  • ocm33406246
  • 33406246
  • SCSB-2134730
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library