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Annik Wüthrich (2021)
Amon, dieu de la ville, dans le chapitre 23 du Livre des Morts
Questionner le sphinx. Mélanges offerts à Christiane Zivie-Coche, Bibliothèque d'étude 178, edited by Collombert, Philippe; Coulon, Laurent; Guermeur, Ivan; Thiers, Christophe. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, p. 731-740
Publication date: 24.06.2021
Lengths of the embargo period: 12 months
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_A.Wuethrich_Amon_dieu_de_la_ville_dans_le_chapitre_23_du_Livre_des_Morts
Abstract
Book of the Dead spell 23 aimed to allow the deceased to recover the use of his mouth: therefore, the deceased invokes, among other deities, the “god of the city” as his personal god. However, some copies of the Book of the Dead from the 26th dynasty onwards replace or add to this expression the name of the god Amon. All these papyri clearly or supposedly come from Thebes based on prosopographical and onomastic criteria. This article lists hence these different attestations, seeking to explain this phenomenon, to examine if it extends to other Egyptian cities and to investigate the concept of local gods more generally.
Project
Challenging Time(s)´ – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology ( CT)
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 757951 and is hosted at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The results published are solely within the author’s responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Research Council or the European Commission who must not be held responsible for either contents or their further use.
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