Performative Structure
Ritualizing the Pyramid of Pepy I
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Word Count
156,500 words, Guess
Page Count
626 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004372368
- ISBN-109004372369
- Library of Congress Control Number2018020699
- OCLC Control Number1037883781
- Better World Books9789004372368
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- Open LibraryOL38038680M
Classifications
- LCCBL2450.F8B55 2018
- LCCBL2450.F8 B55 2018
Description
Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a performative structure, ritualized through the operative faculty inherent in monumental architecture, text, and image. The main body of research is given over to an analysis of the Pyramid Texts found in the pyramid of king Pepy I of the Sixth Dynasty (ca 2300 BCE). It is demonstrated that the texts were distributed on distinct space-bound thematic and ritual levels in order to perpetuate a cultic activity from which the lord of the tomb could be transformed by moving through the different chambers and corridors towards the exit. Just as the decoration program of the mortuary temple once delineated the ritual and ideological structure of the royal mortuary cult, the corpus of texts distributed in the pyramid provided a monumentalized performative structure that effectuated the perennial rebirth for its owner.
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