H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

MAP · Inside the Mind of Ancient People: the tangible and constructed landscape of the western Delta in the Late Period (664-332BC)

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-09-01 → 2019-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Връзката между физическия пейзаж и представата за свещеното в Западната делта на Египет (664-332 г. пр.н.е.) се анализира чрез работата на местните жреци. Това помага да се разбере как средата е влияла върху мисленето и религиозните вярвания на древните хора.

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Inside the Mind of Ancient People: the tangible and constructed landscape of the western Delta in the Late Period (664-332BC)

The main aim of the project was to define the constitution of space in ancient Egypt and recursively to identify the points of contact where the landscape shaped and changed the mind of people. The aim has been accomplished through a comprehensive study of the “regionally specific sacerdotal” officials during the Late Period (664-332 BC) in the western Delta of Egypt (from 2nd to 7th provinces of Lower Egypt). Indeed, these people played a key-role in the representation and “administration” of the conceptual space, as attested in the written documentation related to the sacred geography. The main objective questions of the project were: (a) Who were the persons bearing the “regionally specific sacerdotal” titles? (b) How the imagined environment of these people was transformed by their immediate environment? (c) How did human perception and religious beliefs transform the environment? (d) How did the physical environment affect the human imagination? These questions were addressed through four main objectives: 1. Identification of the persons who dealt with the sacred geography and the materia sacra of the provinces of western Delta of Egypt in the Late Period through the analysis of the written, archaeological documentation and research in archives. 2. The collection of data coming from the texts of sacred geography created by people of objective 1. 3. Identification of differences between textual sources and information recorded on fieldwork in Egypt. The main aim was to understand the physical environment in which persons identified in objective 1 operated and lived. 4. Producing a new historical synthesis and comparative study of the data acquired.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

MAP aims to generate an experimental and innovative methodology combining the “sociology of space” critical theory and the archaeological (material and textual) evidence offered by ancient Egyptian society, in order to examine the constitution of space as product of social action or social structures, and recursively to identify the points of contact where the landscape shaped and changed the mind of people. Ancient Egyptian temple libraries preserve a number of written records which provide insights into the religious and geographic knowledge. The challenge is not to harmonize written and archeological sources inside a monadic dimension but to measure the differences, as a way to discover multiple and conflicting stories from the human mind and the actions imposed onto the physical/mental landscape. The “regionally specific sacerdotal” officials during the Late Period (664-332 BC) in the western Delta of Egypt (2nd-7th provinces of Lower Egypt) is adopted as the research-program case-study, on account of its exceptional significance for archaeology, written sources and lack of any substantive previous research programs. MAP represents an innovative theoretical and methodological contribution for understanding the interaction between physical geography and the intimate conception/perception of the physical space inside the geography of ancient Egypt. The goals of MAP will be achieved adopting an intradisciplinary methodology, aimed to reconnect archaeology and philology, through: 1) analysis of the “regionally specific sacerdotal” officials inside written and artifactual sources; 2) landscape archaeology in order to provide a plot map of the physical environment, through which human entities moved and operated; 3) a comparative dimension aimed to generate a theoretical model, which will open new horizons on how humans and the environment interacted, how the environment changed in the mental process and how the mental process was entangled in a tangible geography.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · DURHAMКоординаторОбединеното кралство