This paper analyses the main features of the cosmogonist thought of Ancient Egypt. We begin with an overview of some features of the Egyptian worldview, followed by the definition of the symbolic language which is specifically related with the creation of the world. We conclude by presenting the key aspects of the cosmogonist traditions of Hermoupolis, Heliopolis, Memphis and other Egyptian cult centres.
This study aims to describe the Egyptian representations of the afterlife as a path, a journey to rebirth. Although this journey has been described since the funerary texts of the Old Kingdom, is was only in the New Kingdom that its several stages were illustrated and codified in iconography. However, it is only among the pictorial decoration of the coffins of the 21st Dynasty that we find the full development ...
An anonymous object tends to be viewed as an object devoid of memory. In the case of the anthropomorphic coffin belonging to an Egyptian priestess of Amon from the 21st dynasty, the identity of its owner has been lost forever. However, as an object, this coffin reflects a centuries-old funerary tradition and it is an authentic repository of a collective material memory that, at the time it was built, was alread...
In ancient Egypt, the sacred is delimited by means of taboo. The necropolis was a sacred space and, as such, was delimited by a set of prohibitions that encoded its use. The 21st Dynasty has undergone important changes in the pattern of use of the necropolis. The looting of the royal necropolis, the Valley of the Kings, is usually taken as the glaring example of the great social and political instability of the...
O Homem tem privilegiado a vida no meio urbano, em detrimento do rural, por mais oportunidade de emprego e melhores condições de vida. As cidades cresceram de forma acelerada, sobretudo depois da Revolução Industrial do século XVIII, crescimento sem controlo, repercutindo-se num desajustado planeamento urbano, ambiental, humano, social e económico. De uma forma, as paisagens verdes e naturais, foram substituída...
We present in this study a brief description of the main morphological and symbolic features of the solar heart amulet. Under this designation we consider the heart amulets that present a sun disk over the top of the object. Starting with a morphological description of these artefacts, we will also consider in this article the study of the artistic rendering of this particular type of heart amulets as a way to ...
O presente trabalho apresenta uma análise comparativa entre os princípios adoptados e os métodos de dimensionamento de sistemas prediais de drenagem pluvial, de acordo com a Regulamentação Nacional e a Normalização Europeia. São também propostos anexos técnicos onde se indicam os parâmetros objecto de definição nacional e outras informações que ajudam a adaptação da Norma Europeia a Portugal. ; This paper pres...
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