Egypt
What's New in Papyrology
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173
Year: 2008
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- Feature: Egyptian Temples
Art History Egyptian temples existed from the middle of the fourth millennium bce at the latest. According to tradition, the earliest were in the shape of reed huts. The last Egyptian temple built was a complex of buildings on Philae which ceased to be...
- Book Review: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religio
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Robert B. Gozzoli) J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion: A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. The...
- Weekly Websites
Cairo Daily Photo http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com A blog which offers one photo a day from the area around Cairo/Giza, Egypt . Dissertation: Religious encounters on the Southern Egyptian frontier in late antiquity (AD 298 – 642) http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/theology/2005/j.h.f.dijkstra/titlecon.pdf...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Travel: A View From The Nile (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/f72gu (venturacountystar.com) Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and...
Egypt
New Book: Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion
What's New in Papyrology
Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE)
Author: Dijkstra J.H.F.Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173
Year: 2008
Summary:
The famous island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, can be considered the last major temple site where Ancient Egyptian religion was practiced. According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, in 535-537 CE the Emperor Justinian ordered one of his generals to end this situation by destroying the island's temples. This account has usually been accepted as a sufficient explanation for the end of the Ancient Egyptian cults at Philae. Yet it is by no means unproblematic.
See more on the above page.
- Feature: Egyptian Temples
Art History Egyptian temples existed from the middle of the fourth millennium bce at the latest. According to tradition, the earliest were in the shape of reed huts. The last Egyptian temple built was a complex of buildings on Philae which ceased to be...
- Book Review: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religio
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Robert B. Gozzoli) J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion: A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. The...
- Weekly Websites
Cairo Daily Photo http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com A blog which offers one photo a day from the area around Cairo/Giza, Egypt . Dissertation: Religious encounters on the Southern Egyptian frontier in late antiquity (AD 298 – 642) http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/theology/2005/j.h.f.dijkstra/titlecon.pdf...
- Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae And Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htmAn account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts...
- Travel: A View From The Nile (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/f72gu (venturacountystar.com) Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and...