Compositional and typological analysis scene sons hora and "burial of Osiris" 17th chapters dead Ptolyemey period (Part One)

Authors

  • Kristina Masalova Institute of Oriental Studies. AY Crimean NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2013.137441

Keywords:

the Book of the Dead, vignettes, sons of Horus, Ancient Egyptian mythology, Ptolemaic Period, sources

Abstract

This article is devoted to the scene from the number of vignettes-illustrations of the Book of the Dead in the last phase of its existence, the Ptolemaic Period. Compositional and typological analysis is done – the stable features of the scene are determined, its variations of composition, decorative and stylistic peculiarities are distinguished.

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Published

2016-10-29

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No. 3 (2013)

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