Posible simbolismo funerario de fragmentos cerámicos en Egipto

In the spiritual life of the ancient Egyptians, the mud of the Nile as well as the water and the river's flood had an important meaning of life and regeneration. The god Jnum made the humanity in his potter-wheel with the clay of the Nile's mud, and the meaning of life and regeneration cou...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: López Grande, María José
Format: article
Publication Date:1994
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/666049
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/666049
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Egipto
cerámica.
Arqueología
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Summary:In the spiritual life of the ancient Egyptians, the mud of the Nile as well as the water and the river's flood had an important meaning of life and regeneration. The god Jnum made the humanity in his potter-wheel with the clay of the Nile's mud, and the meaning of life and regeneration could be transfered, as a logical extensión of this belief, to soma kind of pottery vessels. Those vessels and fragments of them were used with funerary purpose, sometimes as offerings and even as fictitious coffins in modest burials.