Author: Robert M'Clure WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A Clerical Liberationist
Author: Robert M'Clure WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Literary Gazette
Author: The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences
Author: Ramesses III
Author: Eric H. ClinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780472117604
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of Ramesses III in English by top scholars in the field
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Ramesses
Author: Joyce TyldesleyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141949783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? Joyce Tyldesley's lively book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder and the father of scores of children. His momuments and image were to be found in every corner of the Egyptian empire. This is his amazing story.
The Athenaeum
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanSphinx
Author: Christiane Zivie-CochePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489549
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old."--from the IntroductionThe Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity.Christiane Zivie-Coche, a distinguished Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table.