Linen for the God : The Interpretation of Old Kingdom Clothing Rites in the Light of Ptolemaic and Roman Rituals (and vice versa)
2016
Abstract
The article confronts the practical information on the presentation of linen to the statue of the king, as documented in the Old kingdom papyrus archives from the pyramid temples of Neferirkara, Khentkaus II and Ranferef at Abusir, with evidence from both royal and divine temples from the era of the New kingdom and the first millennium BC that provide an insight into the religious nature, the function and the sequence of similar offering rites performed on a daily, monthly or annual basis.