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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Shrines of Gebel el-Silsila : and their function / Helgedomarna i Gebel el-Silsila : och deras funktion

Boender, Alexandra January 2018 (has links)
In 1963 came Ricardo Caminos to the conclusion that the shrines of Gebel el-Silsila functioned as cenotaphs. However, his views have never been reassessed by contemporary Egyptologists, which has led to the shrines still being interpreted as cenotaphs today. This study shows that the term cenotaph perhaps is not the correct word to use for their function. The focal point of this study are the decorations and inscriptions of the shrines, their religious character and the importance of the Nile. The following research compares the shrines of Gebel el-Silsila with similar shrines at Qasr Ibrim in order to reveal their similarities and dissimilarities. In order to achieve this, two publications were chosen, by Caminos, who assessed both sites in the 1960s and briefly compares the Qasr Ibrim shrines to Gebel el-Silsila. Furthermore, the shrines of Gebel el-Silsila resemble tombs in the Theban necropolis, where some of the tombs of the shrine-owners have been uncovered. For this reason, a comparison between the shrines and tombs has been made in order to reveal why the shrines cannot be tombs, and to display why the shrines still are mortuary monuments. Lastly, the following study assessed the shrine-owners in order to answer how the shrines were financed. However, although many of the shrine-owners are well-established noblemen of which several accounts are known, only their titles are taken into account for they provide a principal overview of their status. This has provided the information required to establish how they were financed. It was necessary to make this restriction due to limited amount of available space and was a more elaborate study of the inscriptions and decorations considered of greater importance in order to reveal the religious function of the shrines. The result shows that the shrines were privately financed and that the shrines did not mean to serve has cenotaphs that the family of the deceased could visit to remember him. They were deliberately placed close to the water, even though it would subject them to destruction during the annual inundation of the Nile. The water in relation to the mortuary decorations of the shrines, make the shrines symbolize the underworld and do they not have a practical function / År 1963 kom Ricardo Caminos med slutsatsen att helgedomarna i Gebel el-Silsila fungerade som kenotafer. Hans idéer har sedan den tiden inte omvärderats av samtida egyptologer vilket har lett till att de fortfarande tolkas som kenotafer idag. Denna studie visar att termen kenotaf möjligtvis inte är det rätta ordet för att beskriva deras funktion. Den huvudsakliga fokusen i denna studie ligger på dekorationerna samt inskriptionerna i helgedomarna, deras religiösa karaktär och Nilens betydelse för platsen. Studien jämför helgedomarna i Gebel el-Silsila med liknande helgedomar i Qasr Ibrim, i syfte att klargöra vilka likheter det finns och hur de skiljer sig. För att uppnå detta har två publikationer valts, skrivna av Caminos, som undersökte helgedomarna på de båda platser under 60-talet och ger en kort jämförelse mellan Qasr Ibrim och Gebel el-Silsila. Dessutom liknar helgedomarna i Gebel el-Silsila gravar i Tebe, där gravarna av några ägare av helgedomarna har hittats. Därför har det gjorts en jämförelse mellan tebanska gravar och helgedomar i Gebel el-Silsila för att visa att de inte är gravar men samtidigt är begravningsmonument. Avslutningsvis har denna studie undersökt ägare av helgedomarna för att klargöra hur de var finansierade. Även fast de flesta ägare var väl kända adelsmän, varav flera dokument har hittats som styrker detta, kommer endast deras titel användas i studien. Detta för att det ger en tillräcklig bra överblick för att kunna bedöma deras status i samhället, det har gett tillräckligt med information för att avgöra hur helgedomarna var finansierade. Denna begräsning var nödvändig att göra på grund av platsbrist, och för att en djupare undersökning av inskriptionerna respektive dekorationerna ansågs vara av större vikt för att kunna klargöra vilken religiös funktion helgedomarna hade. Resultatet visar att de var privat finansierade och att helgedomarna inte fungerade som kenotafer som familjemedlemmar kunde besöka för att minnas den döde. De har avsiktligen placerats nära vattnet, även fast de blev förstörda på grund av den årliga översvämningen av Nilen. Vattnet i kombination med begravningsdekorationen, tyder på att helgedomarna symboliserar underjorden och inte hade en praktiskt funktion.
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De la fibre à l'étoffe : archéologie, production et usages des textiles de Nubie et du Soudan anciens à l'époque méroïtique / From fibre to cloth : Archaeology, production, and uses of Meroitic textiles from ancient Sudan and Nubia

Halstad, Elsa 07 December 2015 (has links)
Mon sujet de thèse vise à étudier tous les aspects de la production textile au Soudan à l’époque méroïtique (300 avant J.-C. – 400 après J.-C.). En tant que production artisanale, les tissus sont les fruits de très nombreuses étapes de fabrication, depuis la culture de la fibre à sa transformation en fils, et jusqu’au tissage. Les textiles sont également un des piliers de la culture matérielle des sociétés antiques. Ils y remplissaient des fonctions très variées, liées à l’habillement ou au mobilier, dans tous les contextes, aussi bien urbains, cultuels, que funéraires. D’autres questions devront être abordées, comme celle du commerce avec le monde romain, ou celle de la place de la production textile soudanaise dans les espaces plus larges de la vallée du Nil ou du monde méditerranéen. Ma thèse aura pour objectif de documenter tous ces thèmes, touchants différents domaines comme l’archéobotanie, les études textiles, les analyses iconographiques, l’archéologie et l’histoire.Mon travail consistera à rassembler et analyser les outils, les tissus et les reliefs montrant des costumes, chaque groupe documentaire éclairant un ou plusieurs aspects de la production textile. Il s’agira aussi d’observer les contextes archéologiques afin de déterminer les différentes modalités de production et d’utilisation des tissus. Une telle étude, se basant sur un riche corpus d’objets souvent inédits, permettra d’illustrer un domaine peu connu de la culture matérielle et économique du Soudan méroïtique. / . This research aims to study every aspects of textile production in ancient Sudan and Nubia during the Meroitic period (300 BC – AD 600). Textiles are the result of a multi-faceted craft which involves a long and complex chaîne opératoire, from growing and harvesting the fibres to spinning, weaving, dyeing and sewing. Fabrics and cloths also played a central role in the material culture of ancient societies. They fulfilled numerous and varied functions related to clothing or furnishing in many everyday-life contexts, such as the house, the town, or the temple, but also during the after-life, taking part in funerary rituals and protecting the deceased. This study moreover considers the economic aspects of textile production, notably trade with the Roman provinces and the integration of the Sudanese production into larger geographical regions along the Nile valley and the Mediterranean basin.My doctoral thesis explores these different themes following a multidisciplinary approach, using methods from the fields of archaeobotany, textile studies, iconographic analysis, archaeology and history. The work is based on the gathering of hundreds of previously unpublished data in 3 databases: textiles from old and new excavations, textile production implements, and images of costumes on various media. In correlation with the study of archaeological contexts and findspots, the analysis of each corpus illustrates, for the first time, the diversity of Meroitic textile production and usage. In doing so, this research participates in a recent effort in Sudanese archaeology to shed light on the little-known material culture and economic history of the Meroitic kingdom.

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