Creative powers, royal authority and resurrection: Identification of a non-royal person with the sun-god in the Late Period
Abstract
Spells for divinization of the body parts have occurred in funerary composition since Pyramid texts (i.e. PT 215, PT 539).
This motive is one of the main topic also in later compositions (i.e. CT, BD).
Despite these spells were used in Late period, idea itself was developed to the new composition. Shaft tombs of the Saite-Persian period in Abusir, which constitute a key source for our knowledge of religious thought and concepts of an era, contain "traditional" texts for divinization of body part, but on the lid of sacrophagi of Iufaa and Menekhibnekau, there is one text, which was not used before.
Location of this spell on the surface of the inner sarcophagi thus very close to the body of the deceased, make this text underlying for the owner of tomb. Notwithstanding motive of this text is same, purpose of it seems to be different.
Comparison of spells from Pyramid text and "new" composition from lids of sarcophagi will show different conception of deceased in Late period.