The role of the food offerings in the maintenance of the God’s Wives of Amun’s status (8th-6th centuries BC)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2596-3147.v2i1p274-292Keywords:
Ancient Egypt, God's Wife of Amun, Food offering, Agency, ThebesAbstract
The food offering ritual is very present in the Egyptian resources and it had the main aim to ensure the supply to the gods and the deceased individuals. However, this rite was also utilized in the iconographic representations by some priestesses known as “the God’s Wives of Amun” to keep and propagate their social, political and religious mightiness in the region of Thebes. Through the iconographic analysis of four images from two chapels destined to the cult of Osiris in Karnak, the tomb-chapels of the god’s wives in Medinet Habu and one residential edifice of one of these priestesses in Naga Malgata, this article aims to analyze the role of the food offerings in the maintenance and consolidation of the god’s wives’ status in the 8th-6th centuries BC.
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