Perspectives on Lived Religion: Practices - Transmission - Landscape (Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities, 21)

Scarce (PALMA, 21). Glossy color pictorial boards, with white lettering on the cover and along the spine. The volume is 304 pages in length, and features numerous black-and-white, and color illustrations. Our copy is unread, clean, and in brand new condition. Photographs are available upon request Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organized, and centered on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography.' The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China. Table of Contents Introduction Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies and Lara Weiss Re-awakening Osiris at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos). New evidence for votive offerings and other religious practices Julia Budka Appropriation of territory through migrant ritual practices in Egypt’s eastern Delta Miriam Müller Prosopographia Memphitica – Analyzing Prosopographical Data and Personal Networks from the Memphite Necropolis Anne Herzberg Immortality as the response of others Lara Weiss Votive practices in the local shrines of ancient Egypt Richard Bussmann Identifying Christian Burials Mattias Brand In Hathor’s womb. Shifting agency of iconographic environments: The private tombs of the Theban necropolis under the prism of cultural geography Alexis den Doncker The Talking Dead: Funerary inscriptions, cairns, and landscape in the Jordanian Harrah Ahmad al-Jallad ‘Epigraphical Landscape Appropriation – New Kingdom Rock Inscriptions in Upper Nubia’ Johannes Auenmüller A landscape biography approach to the study of the Saqqara New Kingdom necropolis Nico Staring ‘Architecture of Intimidation: Political Ecology and Landscape Manipulation in Early Southeast Asia. Elizabeth Cecil The Harpist’s Song at Saqqara: Transmission, Performance, and Context Huw Twiston Davies The Crying Game. Some thoughts about the “cow and calf” scenes on the sarcophagi of Aashyt and Kawit Burkhard Backes Human and material aspects in the process of transmission and copying the Book of the Dead in the tomb of Djehuty (TT 11) Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos From Viṣṇu to Sūrya / From Śiva to Sūrya: Tracking Processes of Transmission and Recreation in Sanskrit Religious Literature Peter Bisschop Attending the Grave on a Clear Spring Day: The Linked Ecology of Religious Life in Contemporary Urban China Anna Sun.…