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Elephantine (Egypt) --- Antiquities --- Elephantine (Egypt) - Antiquities
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""The First Upper Egyptian nome, with its capital, Elephantine, was important in ancient times, as it stood on the southern border between Egypt and the Nubian provinces above the First Cataract. Since 2008, Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano has led an archaeological mission at the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa, where Elephantine's high officials are buried. In Descendants of a Lesser God, he draws on textual records and archaeological data, together with new evidence from his work at the tombs, to cast fresh historiographical light on the dynastic dynamics of these ruling elites. Jiménez-Serrano analyzes the origin of the local elites of Elephantine, and their role in trade and international relations with Nubia and neighboring regions, from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom. He explores the development of these power groups, organized as they were in complex households, which in many ways emulated the functioning of the royal court. Delving deeply into the funerary world, he also highlights the relationship between social memory and political legitimacy through his examination of the mortuary cult of a late Old Kingdom governor of Elephantine, Heqaib, who was transformed into a local divinity and later claimed as the mythic ancestor of the ruling family of Elephantine. The history of ancient Egypt has traditionally been written from a court perspective. This new history of a strategically important region not only modifies existing perceptions of provincial life in the Middle Kingdom among the elites, but also introduces new evidence to support more complex and detailed reconstructions of the dynastic families in power.""--
Elephantine (Egypt) --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Egypt --- History. --- Antiquities. --- History --- History
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Jews --- Aramaic language --- Elephantine (Egypt)
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Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Karlsruhe, 2000
Dwellings --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Elephantine (Egypt)
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Jews --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Ethnic relations.
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Der Tempel der Satet liegt im südlichen Ägypten auf der Nilinsel Elephantine vor der heutigen Stadt Assuan. Er ist der einzige erhaltene Provinztempel, dessen Entwicklung sich über einen längeren Zeitraum nachvollziehen lässt. Die ältesten Überreste datieren bis in die ägyptische Vorgeschichte zurück und stehen am Beginn einer 3000-jährigen Geschichte reicher archäologischer Hinterlassenschaften. Die im Heiligtum verehrte lokale Gottheit Satet stand sowohl mit der jährlichen Nilflut als auch mit dem Schutz der südlichen Landesgrenze in Beziehung und hatte somit Bedeutung für ganz Ägypten.0Im zweiten Band zu den Funden aus dem Satettempel werden mehr als 33.000 Objekte untersucht, die bei den Ausgrabungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts im direkten Tempelbereich dokumentiert wurden. Die Mehrzahl von ihnen datiert in die 6. bis 18. Dynastie (2./3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.). Identifiziert wurden unter den Fundstücken Beigaben aus Gründungsdepots von Tempelneubauten des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs sowie dekorative Architekturelemente aus dem Alten Reich. Geräte für die täglichen Kulthandlungen lassen auf das Inventar des Tempels schließen. Die größte Gruppe von Funden sind jedoch Weihgaben, darunter nicht nur Gegenstände des täglichen Lebens, sondern auch speziell gefertigte Votive. Ihr Auftreten wird von den religiösen Praktiken wie auch vom sozio-ökonomischen Hintergrund im Wandel der Zeit bestimmt und gibt Aufschluss über die Votivpraktiken der lokalen Bevölkerung. In einem abschließenden Katalogteil werden zahlreiche mit Zeichnungen illustrierte Objekte beschrieben und in ihrem archäologischen Kontext vorgestellt.
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In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites were among those mercenaries recruited by the Persians to defend the southwestern border of the empire in the fifth century BCE. Becking argues that this group, whom some label as the first “Jews,” lived on the island of Elephantine in relative peace with other ethnic groups under the aegis of the pax persica. Drawing on Aramaic and Demotic texts discovered during excavations on the island and at Syene on the adjacent shore of the Nile, Becking finds evidence of intermarriage, trade cooperation, and even a limited acceptance of one another’s gods between the various ethnic groups at Elephantine. His analysis of the Elephantine Yehudites’ unorthodox form of Yahwism provides valuable insight into the group’s religious beliefs and practices. An important contribution to the study of Yehudite life in the diaspora, this accessibly written and sweeping history enhances our understanding of the varieties of early Jewish life and how these contributed to the construction of Judaism.
Jews --- History --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Elephantine (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Ethnic relations. --- Religion.
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