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Pinch, Geraldine. "Votive offerings to Hathor /." Oxford : Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35684576b.
Full textBasson, Danielle. "The Goddess Hathor and the women of ancient Egypt." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20292.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: In studying ancient Egypt researchers have a great advantage, in that there is a multitude of recorded material to draw from. Unfortunately for anyone interested in studying ancient Egyptian women, the recorded material was most often recorded by, commissioned by, and concerned with, men; royal or high-ranking men to be precise (Robins, 1993: 11-12). Thus, we must look into non-textual artefacts and offerings which may have a symbolic meaning. Though, the textual sources should not be neglected, since these may hold clues to the position and perception of women in society: perceptions held by men. This thesis has drawn largely on art and artefacts to investigate the relationship between women in ancient Egypt and the goddess Hathor. Women are traditionally the mothers, caretakers and homemakers of society. But they are not only that. Women are also individuals, capable of individual thought, feelings, anxieties, hopes and dreams; and like their male counterparts, women also experience religion. But, as was clearly displayed in the thesis, Egyptian women not only experienced religion, they lived religion. In the ancient Egyptian context there was no escaping religion. It must also be understood that the ancient Egyptians thought that the man was the seat of creation and that semen was the essence of creation (according to the cosmogony of Heliopolis, cf. Cooney, 2008: 2). A failure to conceive would be placed directly upon the shoulders of the woman, and could be grounds enough for divorce (Robins, 1993: 63). Women in ancient societies served the main function of child-rearing. This may seem backward, but it was an essential function, without which society would cease to function. When a woman failed to conceive, she in essence failed her function as a woman; many women (and men) in this situation turned to religion. This is where this thesis topic comes into play, since Hathor was a goddess of sexuality and fertility, but also had aspects of safeguarding and caretaking. Women were naturally drawn to her and she developed a large cult following, with cult centres scattered throughout Egypt. Not only were many of her followers female, but her priests were also female (Gillam, 1995: 211-212). Hathor might have been the most relatable of the goddesses because of her dual-nature; she is a caretaker and sexual being, but she can also become fierce and even bloodthirsty. Devotion to Hathor was widespread, with cult centres at Deir el-Bahari, Faras, Mirgissa, Serabit el-Khadim, Timna, Gebel Zeit and elsewhere, each with its own large deposit of votive offerings (Pinch, 1993). Hathor is also referenced in letters between females in a family, as one daughter writes to her mother: “May Hathor gladden you for my sake” (Wente, 1990: 63). It is because of this that this thesis investigated to what an extent ancient Egyptian women had a relationship with her.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die ondersoek van ou Egipte, het navorsers `n groot voordeel, deurdat daar `n groot verskeidenheid bronne beskikbaar is om mee te werk. Ongelukkig, vir enigeen wat daarin geïnteresseerd is om die antieke Egiptiese vrou na te vors, is die meerderheid van die bronne deur mans opgeteken, of in opdrag van hulle, en het ook betrekking op mans; koninklike of hooggeplaaste mans, om meer spesifiek te wees (Robins, 1993: 11-12). Daarom, moet ons ook ongeskrewe artefakte en offerandes bestudeer, wat moontlik simboliese betekenisse kan inhou. Dit beteken egter nie dat ons wel geskrewe bronne moet ignoreer nie, aangesien dit tog leidrade oor die posisie van vroue in die samelewing en hoe hulle deur mans beskou is, kan verskaf. Hierdie tesis het grootliks gebruik maak van kuns en artefakte om die verhouding tussen die vroue van antieke Egipte en die godin Hathor na te vors. Volgens tradisie, is vrouens die moeders, oppassers en tuisteskeppers van `n gemeenskap, maar hulle is nie net dit nie. Vroue is ook individue, in staat tot hul eie gedagtes, gevoelens, vrese, hoop en drome; en nes hul manlike eweknieë, kan vroue ook geloof ervaar. Maar, soos duidelik in die tesis uiteengesit is, het Egiptiese vroue nie net geloof ervaar nie, maar geloof geleef. In die antieke Egiptiese konteks was geloof onontkombaar. Die leser moet ook verstaan dat die antieke Egiptenare geglo het dat die man die skeppingsbron was and dat semen die kern van die skepping was (volgens die Heliopolis Kosmogonie, vgl. Cooney, 2008: 2). Indien „n egpaar probleme ondervind het om swanger te raak, het die blaam direk op die vrou se skouers gerus en was ook `n aanvaarde rede vir egskeiding (Robins, 1993: 63). Vroue in antieke gemeenskappe het hoofsaaklik gedien om kinders groot te maak. Dit mag dalk “agterlik” voorkom, maar dit was `n essensiële rol, waarsonder die gemeenskap nie sou kon funksioneer nie. Indien `n vrou nie kon swanger word nie, het sy in essensie in haar doel as `n vrou misluk; daarom het baie vroue (en mans) in hierdie situasie hulle na godsdiens gekeer. Dit is hier waar hierdie tesis aansluit, aangesien Hathor `n godin van seksualiteit en vrugbaarheid was, maar ook aspekte van beskerming en versorging gehad het. Vroue was natuurlik tot haar aangetrokke, `n groot gevolg het om haar kultus versamel en kultus-sentrums het deur Egipte versprei. Nie net was haar navolgers vroulik nie, maar ook haar priesters was vroulik (Gillam, 1995: 211-212). Hathor was moontlik die godin waarmee die mense die maklikste kon identifiseer, omdat sy `n tweeledige natuur gehad het; sy was `n versorger en `n seksuele wese, maar sy kon ook kwaai en bloeddorstig raak. Die aanbidding van Hathor was wydverspreid, met kultus-sentrums by Deir el-Bahari, Faras, Mirgissa, Serabit el-Khadim, Timna, Gebel Zeit en elders, elk met sy eie groot versameling artefakte (Pinch, 1993). Hathor word ook benoem in briewe tussen vroulike familielede, soos een dogter aan haar moeder skryf: “Mag Hathor jou bly maak vir my onthalwe” (Wente, 1990: 63). Dit is hoekom hierdie tesis nagevors het tot wat `n mate daar `n verhouding tussen antieke Egiptiese vroue en Hathor bestaan het.
Elwart, Dorothée. "Apaiser Hathor : le rite de présentation des sistres à Dendara." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE5021.
Full textIn Ancient Egypt, the sistrum is both a musical instrument used in a specific religious context and the effigy of the goddess to whom the object is presented. This doctoral thesis assesses a corpus of the 100 engraved scenes that represent the Pharaoh performing the ritual of offering one or two sistra to the goddess Hathor in the temples of Dendara (Greco-Roman period). The scene of Pharaoh handling two different sistra and playing with them is the most frequent. The other types of scenes are as varied as the ritual itself, to which each different type of sistrum brings its own meaning. Analyses of these rituals open up three broad areas of investigation: the process of the appeasement of Hathor, the ritual’s performance and the music and collective jubilation. The appeasement of Hathor leads to a change in her state and to the apparition of her face. The texts demonstrate that the sistrum is not the simple material gift offered to a goddess but an “audio” and “visual” medium, which bears the emotional vectors linked to the act of hearing and seeing the deity. Eventually, the sistrum and its offering take place in a full and very detailed musical and joyful environment sustained by the actors of ritual themselves as well as by a broader divine world
Bernhauer, Edith. "Hathorsäulen und Hathorpfeiler : altägyptische Architekturelemente vom Neuen Reich bis zur Spätantike /." Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41080608p.
Full textHansson, Lena. "Gudinnan Hathor : en studie ur metallurgiverksamhetens perspektiv som belyser auktoritära strukturer i forna Egypten." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Religionsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4878.
Full textChâtelet, Catherine. "Hathor la Menit dans les temples de Dendara et d’Edfou : une étude philologique, iconographique et sémiologique." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP028.
Full textThis research follows a previous study on the menit-offering in all Ptolemaic temples published in the Monographie Reine Elisabeth. This menit-necklace, which is one of the sacred symbols of Hathor, bears the same name as the goddess Hathor the Menit, a form of Hathor in Dendara and Edfu temple who is the subject of this study. Regarding this form of Hathor as tȝ Mnj.t, what are the terms, the ornaments, crowns, actions, gestures that can differentiate her from the great Hathor, if that is at all possible, these two divine entities being so intrinsically associated? Part of this research deals with the temple of the Menit itself. All its inscriptions have been translated and studied in order to try and understand what the scribes had in mind in deciding to dedicate this chapel to Hathor the Menit, when the two other minor forms of Hathor: « Hathor-on-her-great-seat » and « Hathor-uraeus » had none. Scribal techniques such as word plays, signs plays and iconographic plays have been taken into account to reveal the themes scribes wanted to emphasize most. She receives a great deal of different offerings, which proved to be extremely interesting to investigate, in order to understand her involvement in each of these offering scenes and to best pinpoint her characteristics. The study of her epithets emphasised several features in relation to her character which are indeed, often related to the offering she receives. They underline her strong association with protection, being the Protector for a brother Osiris, her father Re or her son. There was then a need to investigate her role in the temple of Edfu, in order to understand how she was perceived there, in this Apollonopolitan temple dedicated to the god Horus. Even though she is not the main recipient of the offerings, she always fulfills her protective role towards her husband, reinforcing his action in the scene he is involved, or her father Re or her son Harsomtus. It comes out that Hathor the Menit fits into all the various theological areas of the temple and that her epithets always connect her to the idea of protection, brightness, their purpose being to promote her to the rank of a primordial, universal goddess ensuring the return of the cycles, whether these are cosmic, involving the rebirth of the solar god or the return of the vital inundation for Egypt’s survival, or earthly in the perpetuation of the representant of her son Horus on earth. Quadrifrons goddess, embodying her menit-neklace, Hathor the Menit distinguishes herself through her protecting and solar features. When it comes to ensuring the continuity of the solar cycle, she then manifests herself in her cult-menit-necklace protecting Re during his night-time transformation, when it comes to ensure the human beings ’cycle, it is her menit-necklace holding a child in its arm in which she chooses to act in the chapel
Rogers, Jill Stafford. "Reciprocity and syncretism in Ptolemaic Egypt the Denderah temple as a case study /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11192008-155225/.
Full textCarbillet, Aurélie. "La Figure hathorique à Chypre : (IIe-Ier mill. av. J.-C.)." Strasbourg, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009STRA1002.
Full textThis study deals with the origin, the identity, the place and the functions of the Hathoric figure in Cyprus (IInd-Irst millennium BC), through the inventory, the systematic and attentive study of its representations and of the supports which receive them. An exam of the representations of the Egyptian goddess was essential to define the iconographic characteristics of the Hathoric figure in order to identify and isolate, among the Cypriote furniture, the imagery of the goddess. These testimonia were listed in an exhaustive catalog, classified according to their material, their kind of support and their place of discovery with the aim of facilitating their study. This catalog is the base of this reflection built around 3 chapters: iconographic, stylistic and contextual study of each document. This study had one achievement: understanding and redrawing the history of this divine figure, from its origins to its disappearance. A first analytical chapter so supplies a punctual but detailed interpretation of every document in chronological and comparative viewpoints. Two other chapters are more synthetic: the second defines the identity of this divine figure in Cyprus (forms, attributes, functions) and wonders about its links with the Great Cypriote Goddess; the last one proposes an identification of the historic process and the intentions which preside over the penetration of this Egyptian divinity, its transposition, in Cyprus, in divine figure and its disappearance in 4th BC
Strandberg, Åsa. "The Gazelle in Ancient Egyptian Art : Image and Meaning." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Egyptologi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-107642.
Full textCassier, Charlène. "Tepytihout (Atfih) et sa province : recherches de géographie religieuse." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.biu-montpellier.fr/florabium/jsp/nnt.jsp?nnt=2009MON30034.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of the history of the 22nd province of Upper Egypt (Metenou) and its metropolis (Tepytihout) which remains are visible today at Atfih. The documentation collected is essentially of philological nature – the site has benefited from limited excavations – and religious. Thanks to this, several aspects with regard to sacred geography and worships of this province can be explained. Firstly, the study of the toponymy has allowed to identify some territories, then to define some mythological legends which are attached to them. Then, several exchanges between the 22nd province of Upper Egypt and the neighbouring regions are highlighted : religious influences coming from the Delta, very old links with the Fayum, which continue until the Roman period and common myths with the 17th and 18th provinces of Upper Egypt. Secondly, the nature of divinities, whose worship is currently attested in the province, is analysed. The study of the goddesses, Hathor, Isis, Hesat and Neith, suggests the possibility that the divine entity ‘First of the Cows’, which gives her name to the provincial capital Tepytihout, originates from the Fayum. Then, it is highlighted that, except for the god Sobek, masculine divinities which are venerated in the province, Harmotes and Osiris, were placed later within the local pantheon
Fadhlaoui, Sahbi. "Héritages holocènes et dynamiques morphologiques du bassin versant de l’oued Massengh et ses confluences avec les oueds Sbiba et el Hathob (Dorsale Tunisienne-Tunisie du centre ouest)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040228.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the study of paleoenvironmental and Holocene morphological dynamics in the watershed Massengh and its confluence with the wadis and Sbiba el Hathob (Tunisia's center-west). After studying the physical part of the evolution of Holocene and current environments, the thesis focusesinitiallyon chronostratigraphy inheritances and sedimentary archives. The reconstruction of paleoenvironmentaland morphogenesis Holocene is attempted, in a second step. To summarize, the thesis studies in depth the currentmorphodynamic evolution of the fluvial environment across the space of confluences
Hussy, Holger. ""Die Epiphanie und Erneuerung der Macht Gottes" : Szenen des täglichen Kultbildrituals in den ägyptischen Tempeln der griechisch-römischen Epoche /." Dettelbach : Röll, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2984311&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textMegahed, El Zahraa. "The role of malevolent demon troops with the livings in ancient Egypt." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2186.
Full textThe present study The Role of Malevolent Demon Troops with the Livings in Ancient Egypt aims to determine the criteria that defines the role of the category of demons who manifest in troops to affect people in the earthly life. The subject of this study is discussed in nine chapters and an annex including the corpora.It is better to start by displaying the contents of the corpora. The first chapter of the thesis entitled Arising of the Role of Demon Troops in Terrestrial Life and Aspects Identifying its Nature identifies three main points: Sources Recording the Role of Demon Troops with Mortals on Earth, The Role of Demon Troops: When and Why? And Preliminary Notes about Demon Troops.Chapter two bears the title Identification of Demon Troops. The troops studied in this chapter are arranged according to their importance, that aspect is determined upon the analysis of the roles attributed to each of these troops regarding the time of appearance and the diversity of roles. These troops are: #Atyw “The Executioners, Wpwtyw “The Messengers”, ^mAyw “The Wanderers”, @nTtyw “The Butchers”, awAyw “The Robbers”, %wAw “The Passers-by”, and @rytyw “Those Who Spread Terror”. Details about the connotations of the name, the main roles and tasks are discussed under each troop of demons.Chapter three entitled Designations: The Ontology of Identity and Character discusses the different titles and epithets that appeared in the corpora as designation for the troops of demons identified in chapter two. The most important of these designations are: NTrw “Divine”, NDstyw “minor Divinities”, Mdwt “Words (of Gods)”, Prryw m Irt Re “Who Go Out from the Eye of Re”, &pyw-a-%xmt “Vaunguards of Sekhmet”, Imyw-xt %xmt “Rearguards of Sekhmet”, ^msw “The Retinues”, Wpwtyw “Messengers”, NTrw mDAwt “Gods of Books”, Apdw “Birds”, TAw “Winds”, %bAw “Stars”, Imyw-spspw “Those with the knives”, %tyw “Those who shoot arrows”, ^srw “Arrows”, bin “The Bad”, _Sr “The red”, +Ayw “The Adversaries”, +ww “The Evil”. These designations are presented classified according to thematic categories identifying them.Chapter four bears the title Propagation and Provocation of Demon Troops on Earth: Superordinate Deities and Threat Zones. It deals with the main aspects that control the manifestation of demons on earth. The most important element is the deities who control demons. Chapter five deals with Nature of Task of the Demon Troops on Earth. The rubrics of this chapter study the aspects that identify the role of demons in the earthly life and how the demonic task can be defined regarding the elements of duality and enmity and so on.Chapter six presents Plan and Course of the Task. The aim of this chapter is identifying the actions that demons follow in order to affect people.Chapters seven and eight deal with the Impact of Demon Troops in Terrestrial Life. They respectively discusses the Death and the Disease.Finally chapter nine comes to define The Role of Magic in the Protection of Mortals against Demon Troops on Earth. The aspects connected to time, location and the targeted are also entailed.Concerning the corpora, the sources of the study are arranged in four parts, each of which deals with a group of texts from the same category. The order of presenting the categories is according to their importance. In the first part the Magical Prophylactic Incantations are firstly introduced as the apogee of the Egyptian thought concerning the capacity of demons to affect the different aspects of the life of people on earth
Roux, Wanda. "Fertility goddesses from the Ancient Near East." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24535.
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M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)
Richard, Abigaëlle. "Représentations votives pour la « Dame de Vie » : analyse iconographique des bols de faïence du Nouvel Empire égyptien." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6154.
Full textThis study’s research question raises the issue of the paradoxical nature of the Egyptian canon of representation which shows, simultaneously, a certain rigidity in the application of established stylistic and iconographic rules, especially in non-state commissioned art, and evidence for the transformation and integration of new iconographical motifs. The study aims to identify the mechanisms by which the canon permits, at the same time, transformative processes and the maintenance of tradition. The approach is twofold and consists primarily in identifying trends and stylistic/iconographical discontinuities in the iconography found on the faience bowls from the Middle to the New Kingdoms. Furthermore, it aims to determine if the socio-political and ideological transformations taking place in these periods can be discerned in the stylistic and iconographical variations found on the bowls of the Middle to the New Kingdoms. The author discusses the theoretical model of “representation” in Egyptian context, followed by an analysis of what constitutes the major contribution of this study: an exhaustive iconographical analysis of 500 faience bowls and fragments originating from various Egyptian sites dating to the New Kingdom. The data was evaluated by means of the method of iconological analysis proposed by Panofsky, which permits the identification of a number of stylistic and iconographic continuities and changes for all periods. These transformations seem to be the result of a variety of factors, including fluctuations in the centralization and decentralization of the state, as well as the integration of foreign motifs (Near-Eastern and Aegean), which results from increased contacts between Egypt and its neighbouring regions. Furthermore, the ideological transformations taking place under Akhenaton’s reign and the ones resulting from the ideological “counter-reformation” occurring during the Ramessid period, equally seem to contribute to the changes in the representational canon, even though the latter maintained a certain continuity that was legitimized by the state. The canon thus emerges as a form of language used by the state, and sometimes despite it, which can fluctuate and be altered depending on the realities of the different periods.