The StA-Garment of Horus An Example of Integrating the Foreign King into the Egyptian Belief System
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angličtina
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The StA-Garment of Horus An Example of Integrating the Foreign King into the Egyptian Belief System
Original language description
Linen is quite a common offering gift depicted on the walls of Ptolemaic and Roman temples. Its presentation was supposed to ensure health, royal power, protection or other privileges and manifestations of the god's favour. From the beginning of Egyptian civilization, cloth and linen were a highly valued commodities; different kinds of fabrics and garments are evidenced, some occur only in some periods and then at some points disappear, while others are documented all throughout history. One of the garments, known already since the Old Kingdom, is the StA -garment. It originally occurred in the Pyramid Texts and since that moment in time it has been strongly connected with Horus - it was often designated as the StA -garment of Horus and this deity is also most often the donor of this kind of cloth. Although documented from the Old Kingdom to the end of ancient Egyptian history, the widest use definitely occurs during the Ptolemaic Period where it is attested almost exclusively in the temples of Edfu and Dendera. Through its relation to Horus and thus a firm connection to the kingship over the land and its inheritance, it seems that at this time receiving the StA -garment becomes a very important means to legitimize the rule of the Ptolemies, originally foreign kings, in Egypt.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-07268S" target="_blank" >GA19-07268S: Continuity, Discontinuity and Change. Adaptation Strategies of Individuals and Communities in Egypt at Times of Internal and External Transformations</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Continuity, Discontinuity and Change : Perspectives from the New Kingdom to the Roman Era
ISBN
978-80-7671-048-1
Number of pages of the result
35
Pages from-to
339-373
Number of pages of the book
580
Publisher name
Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Place of publication
Praha
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