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FOLLOWING OSIRIS Following Osiris Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia MARK SMITH 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©MarkSmith2017 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2017 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016953463 ISBN 978–0–19–958222–8 PrintedinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. For Annette Acknowledgements Iamindebtedtoanumberofcolleagueswhohavecontributedtheirexpertiseorhelped and advised on various matters while I was writing this book, and I am pleased to acknowledgetheirassistancehere.Ishouldliketoexpressmygratitudetothefollow- ing: Susanne Bickel, Filip Coppens, Laurent Coulon, Didier Devauchelle, Lucía Díaz- Iglesias, Jónatan Ortiz García, Ann-Katrin Gill, Harold Hays†, Jiří Janák, Richard Jasnow, Andrea Kucharek, Edward Love, Lorenzo Medini, Antonio Morales, Luigi Prada, Joachim Quack, Ian Rutherford, Manon Schutz, Friederike Seyfried, Susanne Töpfer, Zsuzsanna Végh, Mareike Wagner, and Ghislaine Widmer. Some of those named have read drafts of individual chapters and offered valuable comments and suggestions.Othershavegenerouslyallowedmetoreadandciteunpublishedworkof theirown.Anumberhavediscussedordebatedideaspresentedherewithme,eitherin personorviaemail.Stillothershavesuppliedmewithcopiesofbooksorarticlesthat IcouldnotconsultinOxford,ordrawnmyattentiontopublicationswhoseexistence Ihadoverlooked.Severalhaveperformedmorethanoneoftheseservices. Special thanks are due to Vincent Razanajao for allowing me to consult and cite unpublished papers of W.E. Crum in the Griffith Institute Archives, and to Jacco Dieleman for his permission to incorporate material here from two articles of mine originallypublishedintheUCLAEncyclopediaofEgyptology.Ioweaparticulardebt of gratitude to Manon Schutz for providing the map on p. xxix, Ann-Katrin Gill for compiling the Bibliography and helping with the task of proof-reading, and Timothy Beck for his valuable assistance during the copy editing process. While writing this book I had the opportunity to present parts of some of its chapters in the form of lectures in Basel, Heidelberg, New Haven, and Paris. I am very grateful to Susanne Bickel, Joachim Quack, Andy Hogan, Joe Manning, and Christiane Zivie-Coche for providing me with these forums in which to set out my ideas, and also to those who attendedthelecturesfortheircommentsandfeedback.Finally,Ishouldliketothank Hilary O’Shea, former editorof Classics andArchaeologyatOxfordUniversityPress, for accepting this book for publication, and her successors, Georgina Leighton and Charlotte Loveridge, for all their help, encouragement, and patience in bringing it to fruition. Summary of Contents AbbreviationsandConventions xxv OutlineofEgyptianChronology xxvii Map xxix Introduction 1 1. PreludetoOsirisI:ConceptionsoftheAfterlifeinPrehistoricand PredynasticEgypt 8 2. PreludetoOsirisII:ConceptionsoftheAfterlifeintheEarlyDynastic PeriodandtheFirstHalfoftheOldKingdom 41 3. UnreadingthePyramidTexts.SoWhoisOsiris? 107 4. DemocratizingtheAfterlife?AspectsoftheOsirianAfterlifeduring theTransitionfromtheLateOldKingdomtotheMiddleKingdom 166 5. ReRestinginOsiris,OsirisRestinginRe:Osiris,SunGod,andthe DeceasedintheNewKingdom 271 6. NewRulers,NewBeliefs?OsirisandtheDeadduringtheTransition fromtheLatePeriodtothePtolemaicPeriod 356 7. WhereistheKingoftheTwoLands?TheEndofBeliefinthe OsirianAfterlife 421 8. SummaryofResults:WhyOsiris? 538 Bibliography 561 Index 615
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