Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications)

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The ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts form a corpus of formality spells written at the inside of coffins from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1650 BCE). The spells are a part of a long Egyptian tradition of equipping the dead with ritual texts ensuring the transition from the state of a living human being to that of a deceased ancestor. The Coffin Texts provide a wealthy subject matter for studying ancient Egyptian conceptions of the body by providing insights into the underlying structure of the body as a complete and the right kind serve as of individual parts of the body as seen by the traditional Egyptians. Drawing on cognitive linguistics and phenomenological anthropology, Nyord presents an analysis of the conceptualisation of the human body and its individual parts within the Coffin Texts. Also discussed are the ritual conceptualisation and use of powerful substances such as ?magic?, and the role of fertility and procreation in ancient Egyptian mortuary conceptions.

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