The House of Min in the Temple of Horus at Edfu (Room O): A dia- and synchronic investigation of the meaning, cultic function and textual history of the chapel.
Final Report Abstract
The applicant pursued two content-related goals with the project: First, an initial treatment of the texts with a transliteration and a translation as well as a content indexing of the inscriptions and a decoration analysis were planned. The aim was to publish the results in a monograph with an improved new edition of the texts and the scenes. A complete drawing and photographic documentation of the reliefs would complete this. The structure of the decoration dictated the structure of the study: The arrangement in which the various decorative elements were handled in the work could be determined based on the affiliation of the scenes on the walls to each other. The second focus of the project lied on the recontextualisation of the textual material as a result of the intracultural transfer of knowledge. The ancient Egyptian text material is titled and categorized according to its context of use. For a long time, a distinction was made between funerary and temple texts. The content, however, plays less of a role than the context in which the texts were found, a fact that has been increasingly drawn attention to in recent years. Several studies have investigated the question of the original context and the emic meaning of different texts. Consequently, the validity of the traditional boundaries of usage must be examined from a new perspective. One may imagine an extensive text pool that is fed by cult and ritual texts that can be located in the funerary, temple or royal context. The fact that some of the inscriptions in the temples of the Greco-Roman period contain textual material from older corpora or from a different context has repeatedly aroused the interest of researchers. Known are, for example, excerpts of the pyramid texts, sayings from the Book of the Dead and from the liturgies for the dead, hymns or various rituals. In this editorial process of graphically processing the texts as a monumental version, linguistic changes can be recognized and explained.
