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— Rock art has long been neglected as a primary source of information for Predynastic Egypt. Fortunately, interest has picked up strongly for the last twenty years, resulting in numerous publications. However, recent studies tend to focus on the presentation of newly-(re)discovered rock art scenes and sites. In-depth presentations are both infrequent and mostly restricted to rock art itself. Although comparisons have often been made with the iconography on decorated pottery and other objects found in Predynastic cemeteries, the aim was, in many cases, to establish the chronological position...
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This chapter surveys magical and divinatory practices in Roman Egypt.
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Following on the first part of the study, which dealt with scenes of animals under the chairs of nobles and members of their families, the main interest of the second part is the various objects represented under those chairs. The present article seeks to categorize types of objects and analyze the reason behind their representation under the chairs. Over fifty private tombs and reliefs supported by similar scenes on stelae were examined and analyzed. The objects that appeared under chairs are chests and boxes, mirrors, vessels, cosmetics, scribal equipment, ewers and basins, flowers, and...
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The depiction of daily life scenes in ancient Egyptian tombs is an expression of their way of life. It is a reflection of their ideas, concepts, messages, and lifestyle. The scenes of the chairs of the tomb owners, their wives, and their relatives reveal large numbers of items under those chairs. Those items can be classified into several groups, namely, animals, objects, and people. Each group consists of different elements. This paper, which is the first part of the study, concentrates on the animal group depicted under the chair. The aim of this paper is to categorize the animals under...
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God and other invisible relatives in Old Bank (Bocas del Toro, Panamá) In multiple traditions of Old Bank, an island village, situated off the Atlantic coast of Panama, relationships with relatives - which are associated to the presence of god, sorceres and spirits - come to light. Using my 14-month ethnographic fieldwork, I analyze the interaction among such relationships, by focusing on the place that Black Methodist and Adventist women take in funerals (locally termed los nain nait), and in the daily Christian practices and in the other everyday acts of care connected to kinship. I...
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