The performative structure : ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I /

The performative structure : ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I /

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Author / Creator:	Billing, Nils, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:	xvii, 626 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 4 Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 4.
Subject:	Pepi -- I, -- King of Egypt, -- active 24th century B.C.-23rd century B.C. -- Tomb. Pepi -- I, -- King of Egypt, -- active 24th century B.C.-23rd century B.C. Pyramid of Pepi I (Ṣaqqārah, Egypt) Pyramids -- Egypt -- Ṣaqqārah. Inscriptions, Egyptian -- Egypt -- Ṣaqqārah. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt. Antiquities. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Inscriptions, Egyptian. Pyramid of Pepi I (Ṣaqqārah, Egypt) Pyramids. Tombs. Ṣaqqārah (Egypt) -- Antiquities. Egypt. Egypt -- Ṣaqqārah.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11682902

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ISBN:	9789004372368 9004372369
Notes:	"This is a lightly revised version of a doctoral thesis in the History of Religions, defended in the spring term of 2013 at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a performative structure, ritualized through the operative faculty inherent in monumental architecture, text, and image. The main body of research is given over to an analysis of the Pyramid Texts found in the pyramid of king Pepy I of the Sixth Dynasty (ca 2300 BCE). It is demonstrated that the texts were distributed on distinct space-bound thematic and ritual levels in order to perpetuate a cultic activity from which the lord of the tomb could be transformed by moving through the different chambers and corridors towards the exit. Just as the decoration program of the mortuary temple once delineated the ritual and ideological structure of the royal mortuary cult, the corpus of texts distributed in the pyramid provided a monumentalized performative structure that effectuated the perennial rebirth for its owner.

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