Ta-Mery 17
De nieuwste publicatie van Huis van Horus staat weer vol met boeiende ontdekkingen en verhalen uit het land van de farao's. Lees over recente opgravingen en bijzondere artefacten die je dichter bij het leven van de oude Egyptenaren brengen. Een must-read voor liefhebbers van geschiedenis!

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The Temple of the Whole World? Continuity, Construction and Meaning in Egyptian Temples

21 januari zal de eerste lezing van het nieuwe jaar plaatsvinden. Chris Cogger zal ons dan alles vertellen over het 'Boek van de Tempel' en wat dit ons kan vertellen over de Egyptische tempel:

“Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven…that everything governed and moved in heaven came down to Egypt and was transferred there? If truth were told, our land is the temple of the whole world.” Or so writes the Hermetic Asclepius. Egyptian temples and their cult are perhaps the most enigmatic and iconic images of Orientalist Egypt, from the Greeks to the early 19th century European Bourgeoisie. But what did the Egyptians themselves think constituted a temple? How was everyday land transformed into a sacred enclosure in which a cult image filled buildings with an emanation of divine presence, while at the same time, the entire cosmos with the radiance of divine manifestation?

In his research Chris explores the image of the ideal cultic enclosure and system of worship presented in the Book of the Temple, a textual manual dating linguistically to the Middle Kingdom (2040 BC to 1782 BC) but preserved fragmentally on approximately 40 Ptolemaic and Roman period (332 BC – AD 64) papyri. He examines the architectural details espoused and what this can tell us about construction methods, implicit reasoning and religious assumptions of the ‘model’ temple, as well as the broader question of priestly training and initiation, questioning how knowledge of the divine is transmitted and maintained.

After introducing some of the basic structure of the Book of the Temple and the essential symbolism of cultic enclosures, Chris will shift to discussing the miniaturisation and transformation of temple culture in the Late Ptolemaic and Roman Period that ensued following the reforms of Augustus and Septimius Severus and the economic decline of the Empire, leading to a proliferation of magical manuscripts and ritual manuals being disseminated across the Eastern Mediterranean.

Docent: Chris Cogger
Datum: dinsdag 21 januari (20.30 - 21.30)
Locatie: Online (Zoom)
Voertaal: Engels
Prijs: €2.50 voor donateurs | €5 voor niet-donateurs | Ben je student en wil je de lezing graag bijwonen, schrijf je dan nu bij ons in via een student lidmaatschap.