Mykola Tarasenko

Broschiertes Buch

Studies on the Vignettes from Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead

I: The Image of ms.w Bdst in Ancient Egyptian Mythology

Beschreibung

This book is a comprehensive study of the myth of the Egyptian deities ms.w BdÅ¡t - â Children of Weaknessâ - and the scene depicting the cat, cutting off the head of the serpent under the branches of the iÅ¡d-tree found on a number of Book of the Dead chapter 17 vignettes.

Autor

Dr Mykola Tarasenko is a Senior Fellow at the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyev. His research area is focused on the studies of illustrative tradition of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and specifically the vignettes of spell 17. In 2007 he was awarded the fellowship grant of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for the study course at the 'Bonn Book of the Dead Project' (Bonn Totenbuchprojekt). In 2014 he won the fellowship grant of the Stiftungsfonds fur Postgraduates der Agyptologie (Vienna, Austria). The current book is the result of his work within these Fellowships Projects.

Produktdetails

• Archaeopress Egyptology
• Verlag: Archaeopress
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 302mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781784914509
• ISBN-10: 1784914509
• Artikelnr.: 47000972