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Goddess Nekhbet Scenes on Royal Monuments during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties [PDF]
International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, 2019 Nekhbet was an early Predynastic local divinity in the Egyptian mythology. Her ancient Egyptianname meant She of Nekheb, she was the patron deity of the city of Nekheb. Ultimately, shebecame the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities for all of AncientEgypt when it was unified.
Saraa El-Shamy +3 more
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Portable Faith: Toward a Non-Site-Specific History of Buddhist Art in Japan
Ars Orientalis, 2023 From small-scale shrines to handheld icons and votive tablets, portability has long factored into the design and reception of Buddhist art. This article charts the uses and design of portable objects that are as instrumental and effective as their ...
Chun-Wa Chan
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A Critical Note on Golden Shipwreck Tang at Asian Civilizations Museum of Singapore [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 Obviously, the Sasanian era is one of the most magnificent historical periods of Iran. However, the collapse of the Sasanian Empire and the migration of thousands of Sasanian musicians and artists along with the royal dynasty (Yazdgerd III) became a new ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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A Female Scribe in the Twenty Sixth Dynasty (Iretrau) [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Studies in World Archaeology, 2018 This research studies Iretrau’s title ‘sS-sHm.t’ which was mentioned several times in her tomb. This is a clear reference of literacy. It is notable that Iretrau and her position as a scribe is one of the most complicated issues, due to the lack of texts written by her as a male scribe, as well as the absence of writing tools in her tomb.
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Comital Ireland, 1333–1534 [PDF]
, 2017 The history of late-medieval Ireland is not exactly littered with dates that command general recognition, so it is surely suggestive that two which have achieved a degree of notoriety concern the fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of Ireland’s earls and ...
Peter Crooks
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THE PROFESSIONS AND HIERARCHY OF NEKHEBU [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2020 (En) The aim of this paper is to examine the titles and professions of an Old Kingdom official particularly a sixth dynasty royal Architect who performed the tasks of his career under the sovereign Pepi I.
Ahmed Abdelmoniem
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The tombs of Kaisebi (AS 76) and Ptahwer (AS 76b) at Abusir South [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2017 The excavations at Abusir South have already uncovered many tombs that have added valuable information to the general knowledge of the development of the Old Kingdom society, its burial and funeral habits, and last but not least social relations and ...
Veronika Dulíková +4 more
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Louis XI of Valois (1461–1483)
Encyclopedia, 2022 Louis XI (1461–1483) was the sixth king of the Valois branch of the Capetian dynasty in France; he ruled from 1463 until his death in 1483. Louis was the son of Charles VII (1403–1461) and Marie of Anjou (1404–1463).
Julia Faiers
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, 2019 The era of the 25th Dynasty during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE witnessed the annexation of Egypt by kings from the neighboring land of Kush. The phrase “Twenty-fifth Dynasty” may therefore refer to either this family of royals, the state they ...
Pope, Jeremy
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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