Wine & Wine Offering In The Religion Of Ancient Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780710305015 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str.

Mu-Chou Poo; Muzhou Pu

Opis

Focuses on the use and significance of wine in ancient Egyptian society. The book analyzes the iconographical and textual evidence of wine offering ritual from the earliest to the Ptolemaic periods and shows how its use was charged with symbolic meaning and integrated into the religious system.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter I Wine in Egyptian Society; Chapter II Representations of Wine Offering on Royal Monuments; Chapter III Wine Offering Liturgies in Funerary and Divine Cults; Chapter Iv Wine Offering Liturgies in the Ptolemaic Temples; Chapter V The Replies of the Deities in Wine Offering Scenes; chapter VI The Significance of Wine and Wine Offering in Egyptian Religion; Conclusion;

O autorze

Mu-Chou Poo