Awadallah, Abdelhaleem
Congratulations on passing the colloquium on 11 March 2022
Dissertation topic:
"The crew of the sun barghe in the Amduat."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Chair of Egyptology
Residenzplatz 2, Tor A, 97070 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Martin Stadler
Second supervisor:
Class in the Graduate School: "Antiquity, History and Religion"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from SS 2017.
Abstract:
The Amduat is one of the essential Netherworld Books, recorded in various kinds of Ancient Egyptian sources since the beginning of the 18th dynasty, especially the walls of the royal tombs. The main theme of the Amduat is the sun god's journey through the underworld, where the solar bark and its crew are the central scenes of the journey.
The study focuses on finding the reasons for choosing the crew members who manage the sun bark's journey in the Amduat. It also aims at illustrating the functions and responsibilities of each crew member. First, following a historical approach, the study analyses the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts as the most important documents before the New Kingdom. Then, it proceeds to the monuments' inscriptions and writings, which contain portrayals and descriptions of the Amduat in the New Kingdom. Furthermore, it sheds some light on the solar cycle's main features and primary aspects and tries to scrutinise the date, meaning, and symbolisms of the Amduat and its indications in the earlier sources.
The Amduat is one of the most important ancient Egyptian underworld books, which has survived since the beginning of the 18th dynasty through numerous textual witnesses on various writing media, but especially on the walls of royal tombs. This study focuses on the depiction of the crew of the sun barque in the Amduat. It concentrates on explaining the functions and responsibilities of the individual crew members and establishing the reasons why they were chosen for these roles. It also identifies the main aspects and phases of the solar cycle. In addition, the date of origin of the amduat is determined and its structure, meaning and symbolic content are analysed. The prehistory and historical development of the Amduat will also be examined, starting with the precursor versions of individual sayings in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts as the most important texts before the New Kingdom, through to inscriptions and depictions of the New Kingdom in which individual scenes and sayings from the Amduat can be found.
