Daemons & Spirits In Ancient Egypt

222 Pages·2018·43.555 MB·English

by  Carolyn Graves-Brown

DAEMONS & SPIRITS
IN
ANCIENT EGYPT
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LIVES AND BELIEFS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Series Editor
C. Graves-Brown
Egypt Centre, Swansea University
Editorial Board
Dr Emily Teeter
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Dr Campbell Price
Curator of Egypt and Sudan, Manchester Museum,
The University of Manchester
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LIVES AND BELIEFS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
DAEMONS & SPIRITS
IN
ANCIENT EGYPT
CAROLYN GRAVES-BROWN
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
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CONTENTS
List of figures ix
Chronology xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Preface xvii
1 Introduction: Problems 1
2 Dwellings of the Dead and Daemons 13
3 Early Daemons and a Magic Wand 23
4 Those with Sticking-out Tongues, Dwarves, Hippopotami and
Problems of Gender: Daemons from the New Kingdom and Later 35
5 Spirits of the Dead 69
6 Daemons on Coffins, the Book of the Dead and the Star-lit Sky 109
7 ‘Quasi-Daemons’ 135
8 Conclusions 155
References 163
Index 193
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LIST OF FIGURES
1. W 922 and W923. Greek and Roman ideas of the Otherworld.
Note Anubis with the key to Hades around his neck. 16
2. EA38192. British Museum wand. 25
3. LIH9 Faience frog amulet. 29
4. W219 Pottery frog. 29
5. ‘Amarna’ beaded collar. 37
6. Close up of W9 showing Bes or Beset. 37
7. W1156. Amarna pendant of a foreign captive or a liminal daemon? 39
8. W961p. Pendant showing a dancing Bes playing a hand drum. 40
9. W553. Sistrum showing Bes. 41
10. A collection of Bes moulds. 41
11. W2052a and b. Bed legs showing Bes and a hippopotamus daemon. 44
12. Hippopotamus daemon amulet. Taweret or Ipet? 46
13. AB110. Cippus showing Bes head above Horus the Child. 47
14. Back of Horus stela. 49
15. W1702. Part of a pottery vessel showing Bes. 50
16. EC257. Part of a faience Bes vessel. 51
17. W1283. Ptolemaic Period Bes vessel. 52
18. EC546. Late Period Bes vessel. 52
19. WK44. Faience Bes bell. 53
20. W 56. Isis-Thermouthis (with elements of Agathe Tyche) and on the
right Serapis (with elements of the Agathodaimon). 56
21. W867. A fragment of the Book of the Dead belonging to Ankh-Hapi. 72
22. Simplified offering formula. 73
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