The Performative Structure (Ritualizing the Pyramid of Pepy I)
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Product Details
Author:
Nils Billing
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
626
Publisher:
Brill (July 26, 2018)
Imprint:
Brill
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004372368
ISBN-10:
9004372369
Weight:
45.76oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 9.25" x 1.69"
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TWO RIVERS
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$223.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
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Overview
In The Performative Structure: Ritualizing the Pyramid of Pepy I, Nils Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a performative structure, ritualized through the operative faculty inherent in monumental architecture, text, and image. The main body of research is given over to an analysis of the Pyramid Texts found in the pyramid of king Pepy I of the Sixth Dynasty (ca 2300 BCE). It is demonstrated that the texts were distributed on distinct space-bound thematic and ritual levels in order to perpetuate a cultic activity from which the lord of the tomb could be transformed by moving through the different chambers and corridors towards the exit. Just as the decoration program of the mortuary temple once delineated the ritual and ideological structure of the royal mortuary cult, the corpus of texts distributed in the pyramid provided a monumentalized performative structure that effectuated the perennial rebirth for its owner.
