Science in Ancient Egypt

Chapel for a Healing Cult in the Precinct of Mut in Karnak
Chapel for a Healing Cult in the Precinct of Mut in Karnak.

Chapel for a Healing Cult in the Precinct of Mut in Karnak

Metadata

knowledge domains
Magic
keywords
Thoth Horus defence spell (preventive magic) » protection while travelling healing spell (curative magic) litany Mythological tale Isis threat to the gods defence spell (preventive magic) » protection on the water historiola
Present location
Africa » Egypt » Karnak »
Find spot
Asyut to First Cataract » Thebes » East Bank » Karnak » Mut Enclosure
Date
Era and Dynasty Dates » Pharaonic Period » Late Period » 26th Dynasty » Psammetichus I Wahibre
Text type
recitation(s)
Material
Non organic » Stone » Sandstone
Object type
Architecture » Buildings and Structures » Chapel
Script
Hieroglyphs
Language
Egyptian-Coptic » Egyptian » Middle Egyptian
Editions

- Traunecker 1983: C. Traunecker, Une Chapelle de magie guérisseuse sur le parvis du temple de Mout à Karnak, in: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 20, 1983, 65–92 and pl. 19–24.

Bibliographic references

- Cabrol 2001: A. Cabrol, Les voies processionnelles de Thèbes, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 97 (Leuven 2001).

- Fazzini 1999: R. A. Fazzini, see Karnak, precinct of Mut, in: Kathryn A. Bard (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (London/New York 1999), 399.

- Fazzini 2007: R. A. Fazzini, Report on the Brooklyn Museum’s 2006 Season of Fieldwork at the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak, in: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 81, 2007, 101–115.

- Fazzini 2008: R. A. Fazzini, The Brooklyn Museum’s 2007 Season of Fieldwork at the Precinct of Mut, South Karnak, in: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 82, 2008, 67–87.

- Fazzini – Bryan 2021: R. A. Fazzini – B. M. Bryan, The Precinct of Mut at South Karnak. An Archaeological Guide (Cairo/New York 2021), 23–24.

- Fazzini – Peck 1981: R. A. Fazzini – W. Peck, The Precinct of Mut During Dynasty XXV and Early Dynasty XXVI: A Growing Picture, in: Journal of the Society of the Study of Egyptian. Antiquities 11/3, 1981, 115–126.

- Jansen-Winkeln 2014: K. Jansen-Winkeln, Inschriften der Spätzeit. Teil IV: Die 26. Dynastie. Band 1: Psametik I.–Psametik III. (Wiesbaden 2014), 59.

- Legrain 1916: G. Legrain, Une statue de Horoudja, Fils de Haroua, provenant de Dendérah, in: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 16, 1916, 159–160.

- Traunecker 1987: C. Traunecker, Une pratique de magie populaire dans les temples de Karnak, in: A. Roccati – A. Siliotti, La magia in Egitto ai Tempi dei faraoni. Atti Convegno internazionale di studi. Milano 29-31 Ottobre 1985 (Milano 1987), 221–242, here: 221–222.

Online ressources

- Fazzini 2006: R. A. Fazzini, Report on the Brooklyn Museum’s 2006 Season of Fieldwork at the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak (2006), 7 und 11, Abb. 10.a–b. (20.10.2022)

- Fazzini 2010: R. A. Fazzini, The Brooklyn Museum’s 2010 Season of Fieldwork at the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South Karnak (2010), S. 13 und 37–38, Abb. 40–43. (20.10.2022)

Author
Dr. Peter Dils
Author of metadata
Dr. Peter Dils

Translation and Commentary

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