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Andrey Bolshakov Man and His Double in Egyptian
Ideology of the Old Kingdom
In 2001, Prof. Andrey Bolshakov, head of the Section of the Ancient Orient
in the State Hermitage, published a book.
Ancient Egyptian monuments have preserved unique information about the
world view of people who had only just emerged from primitivism but were
already living in conditions of developed statehood. Sadly, despite the
fact that Egyptologists have been making attempts to reconstruct it for
a century and a half, we still do not understand the most important concepts,
including the complex of ideas associated with the human being's Double
- the Ka that occupied a central place in the ideology of the Old Kingdom
(3rd millennium B.C.). This book represents a very major study of the
Ka question based on material from tomb murals and sculptures that have
not hitherto been seriously examined in this context.
The book is published in Russian and English.
Andrey O. Bolshakov, Man and His Double in Egyptian Ideology of the Old
Kingdom, Wiesbaden, 1997 (Ägypten und Altes Testament, Vol. 37),
336 pp., 5 tbls, 9 figs.
ISBN 3-447-03892-6.
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Andrey O. Bolshakov, Man and His Double in Egyptian
Ideology of the Old
Kingdom, Wiesbaden, 1997
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