Representations of a Goddess Suckling a King in Ancient Egypt | ||||
حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى" | ||||
Article 146, Volume 15, Issue 15, 2012, Page 168-187 PDF (597.6 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/cguaa.2012.37343 | ||||
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tarneem bayoumy1; Riham M. Ezz El-din2 | ||||
1 Lecturer at the High Institute of Tourism and Hotels, El- Seyouf. Alexandria | ||||
2Lecturer at the High Institute of Tourism and Hotels, EGOTH, Guiding Department, Alexandria. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Representations of a goddess suckling a king occur in Egyptian art as early as the Old Kingdom, and they continue throughout Egyptian history. They are concerned with an event which was preserved in scenes as well as in statuary. These representations seem to symbolize the nurturing relationship of mother and child. Also, they might symbolize the ruler's rebirth in the Afterlife. This paper will provide an overview of historical literature in ancient Egypt that presents breastfeeding as a constitutive substance of kingship relatedness where it shows royals nursing at the breasts of goddesses conferring upon them divine status and bolstering their royal legitimacy. The paper will start by a general introduction of breastfeeding in ancient Egypt and words in ancient Egyptian language related to suckling and nursing, followed by examples of representations of goddesses suckling a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt arranged in a chronological order. The study aims at analyzing and understanding these representations, identifying the most important goddesses which appeared in this context, it also sheds light upon the religious significance and occasions of these representations. إن تصوير الإلهة ترضع الملک ظهر فى الفن المصرى القديم منذ الدولة القديمة و ظل مستمرا على مدى التاريخ المصرى القديم و لقد صور على مناظر کما ظهر فى تماثيل . هذة المناظر کانت ترمز الى علاقة الحماية بين الأم و طفلها کما إنها ربما ترمز الى إعادة بعث الحاکم فى الحياة بعد الموت . هذة الورقة البحثية تبدأ بمقدمة عن الرضاعة فى مصر القديمة و کلمات و مصطلحات فى اللغة المصرية القديمة تتعلق بالرضاعة . و فى الجزء التالى تستعرض أمثلة لأهم مناظر الرضاعة بين آلهة و ملک و هى مرتبة تاريخيا من الأقدم الى الأحدث. تنتهى الدراسة بتحليل هذة المناظر و تحديد أهم الآلهات التى ظهرت فيها کما إنها تلقى الضوء على الأهمية الدينية و المناسبات التى ظهرت فيها هذة المناظر. | ||||
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