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Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples

Kingship, Architecture, and Religion in Third Millennium BC Egypt

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Sun temples of the Fifth Dynasty are an unparalleled monument of ancient Egypt, characterized the Central part of the Old Kingdom considered as the apex of the solar cult and theology. Original architect. Shape and ideological influence on the later phases of Egyptian history are far from clear as well as their cultic, ideology and symbolic relationship with the contemporary pyramids and with what is considered to be the original place of rise and diffusion of the solar cult in AE, the city of Heliopolis. Six temples were built in a quite limited time span in the middle of the Third Millennium BC but only two have been discovered so far. The volume collects all the available archeology and textual evidences, including an in-depth reconstruction of the original decoration of temples. Several tables, sheets and plates, with photo of the monuments.

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Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples, Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Miroslav Verner

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2019
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Titre
Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples
Sous-titre
Kingship, Architecture, and Religion in Third Millennium BC Egypt
Langue
Anglais
Format
rigide
Pages
560
ISBN10
8073088967
ISBN13
9788073088965
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Sun temples of the Fifth Dynasty are an unparalleled monument of ancient Egypt, characterized the Central part of the Old Kingdom considered as the apex of the solar cult and theology. Original architect. Shape and ideological influence on the later phases of Egyptian history are far from clear as well as their cultic, ideology and symbolic relationship with the contemporary pyramids and with what is considered to be the original place of rise and diffusion of the solar cult in AE, the city of Heliopolis. Six temples were built in a quite limited time span in the middle of the Third Millennium BC but only two have been discovered so far. The volume collects all the available archeology and textual evidences, including an in-depth reconstruction of the original decoration of temples. Several tables, sheets and plates, with photo of the monuments.