Ancient Egyptian Literature by Lichtheim Miriam Lopriano Antonio

Author:Lichtheim, Miriam, Lopriano, Antonio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. The terms “horizon” and horizon-dwellers” were studied by Kuentz in BIFAO, 17 (1920), 121-190, where he assembled evidence to show that “lightland,” referred to the remote eastern regions of the earth, and that the were the dwellers of those regions. The Egyptians, however, used the term so broadly as to include both earth and sky, and most scholars have retained the conventional rendering of as “horizon.”

2. Horus was often identified with Min.

3. Like the term “land of the horizon-dwellers,” the expression “god’s land” designated the foreign regions to the east and south of Egypt, including the land of Punt.

4. Here and above the foreward movement of the narration, rendered through finite verbs, is interrupted by an ornate heaping of epithets, the first group referring to the mountain, and the second to the king. Stylistically, these interruptions would be extremely awkward, were they not through their parallelistic structure endowed with a distinct rhythm which sets them apart from the prose narration.

5. The meaning of prw bw is uncertain. See Schenkel, Memphis, p. 256 n. a, for citation of discussions of the term.

6. “Lord of life” was a metaphor for sarcophagus.

7. Iwntyw = “Bowmen,” designated the peoples of the southeastern deserts and of Nubia.

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