Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (continued) : image and substitution

Relief from the chapel of Setepibre at Abydos. Middle Kingdom. Block MMA 65.120.2. - new York, MMA, CC0 license.

The seminar aims to define possible anthropological approaches to the Osirian image, considered within the general framework of a study of the functioning of the image as it has been developed in modern anthropology and as it has also been implemented, in recent Egyptological work, for the Egyptian image. Based on these current questions, the aim is to analyze documentation from the Pharaonic era through specific case studies, using a scholarly approach from the iconographic, philological, archaeological and historical points of view.

Following on from the previous year's inquiry into the powers of the Osirian image, this year's seminar is devoted to the functioning of the image as a " substitut ".

Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (continued) : image and substitution

Documents and media

Program

Introduction

1) Introduction - 2) Ritual images, scribal practices and the literary imagination. The status and role of drawings in Ramesside papyrus-amulets

Image Ontologies and Substituting Images in Egyptian and Egyptological Thought

Funerary statuettes (ouchebtis) from the 1st millennium BC, substitutes and images of the deceased

The notion of "substitute cult". Reflections on ritual mechanisms in ancient Egypt

Statues placed in shrines by private individuals in their own image (1) Private statues

Statues placed in shrines by private individuals in their image (2) Chaouabtys "extra-sepulchral"

Conclusion and outlook

See also