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CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007

CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007. Isis and Nephthys resurrect Osiris. Egyptian concepts of the soul: the body ( khat ) as corporate and dissoluble the ka the ba the sahu the khaibet the khu the sekhem.

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CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007

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  1. CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Death on the Nile Sept. 24th, 2007

  2. Isis and Nephthys resurrect Osiris

  3. Egyptian concepts of the soul: • the body (khat) as corporate and • dissoluble • the ka • the ba • the sahu • the khaibet • the khu • the sekhem

  4. CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World Books of the Dead Wooden grave marker from the Coptic cemetery of Lahun, Fayyum, 4thc. CE

  5. Amduat text, showing division of the hours of the night

  6. Late coffin texts on mummy wrappings, Roman period

  7. Late coffin text on mummy wrappings, Roman period

  8. New Kingdom Amduat text

  9. Steps of Mummification: • Announcement of Death • Embalming of body • Removal of brain • Drying out process • Wrapping of Body • Final Procession

  10. King Tut’s canopic jars

  11. Reproductions of classic Canopic jars to 4 minor deities: • The falcon-headed Qebhsenuef (intestines) • The jackal-headed Duamutef (stomach) • The baboon-headed Hapy (lungs) • The human-headed Imsety (liver)

  12. Objects included with wrappings: • Ankh • Eye of Horus • Heart Scarab

  13. Mummified head of young woman, ca. 100-120 CE, Found by Petrie at Hawara In 1888.

  14. Mummified leg, late Roman period.

  15. CLAS-E 128: Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World What good are mummies, anyway? Wooden grave marker from the Coptic cemetery of Lahun, Fayyum, 4thc. CE

  16. P.Mich Inv. 7018; cartonnage foot wrappings from Greek ms; 2nd cen BCE

  17. Crocodile and cat mummies, Ptolemaic period. From UC Berkeley excavations Under Grenfell and Hunt, 1899. Now in the Hearst Museum, Berkeley.

  18. A copy of Homer’s Iliad, from Tebtunis, ca. 200 BCE

  19. A copy of Homer’s Iliad, from Tebtunis, ca. 200 BCE

  20. A copy of Sophocles’ lost play Inachus, from a mummy cartonnage discovered by Grenfell and Hunt, 1895, Tebtunis.

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