Open AccessMaterial Sources of Predynastic Egypt in the Context of the Concept of “Cultural Memory”
Author(s) -
T. Sherkova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bûlletenʹ nauki i praktiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2414-2948
DOI - 10.33619/2414-2948/59/35
Subject(s) - polychrome , mythology , period (music) , context (archaeology) , embodied cognition , elite , history , the symbolic , art , literature , visual arts , archaeology , aesthetics , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , politics , political science , psychoanalysis , law
In the pre-written period, the main sources of cultural memory as an important basis for mytho-religious representations of classical ancient Egypt are the material sources: archaeological sites, pictorial texts, their compositions, motifs and images. The sample for analytical work is related to ritual objects. These include painted vessels of type C and D, polychrome panel from the elite burial in Hierakonpolis, slate palettes, funeral masks. The result of the research was the conclusion that these pictorial texts represent a model of the world. The image-symbolic language of pictorial texts reveals the structure of the universe, which in the written period was embodied in numerous myths and rituals.