Narrating Temporality: Three Short Stories about Egyptian Royal Living-rock Stelae

Jen Thum; Anne-Claire Salmas

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In: Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

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Pages:: 69–113

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004462083_004

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Abstract

This chapter explores the inception, lives, and afterlives of three groups of Egyptian royal living-rock stelae. Taking inspiration from the narrative format of Grant Parker’s “Narrating Monumentality” (JMA 2003), select personal encounters with these stelae and their stone supports, from the ancient past through the modern era, are relayed in reverse-chronological order. This approach calls attention to long-term, even multicultural engagements with the landscapes of these monuments, foregrounding materiality and memory and questioning why certain outcrops were chosen for inscription in the first place. The counter-diachronic narrative also complements the Egyptian understanding of time, whose relationship to living rock—a material associated with timelessness, permanence, and monumentality in the Egyptian view—is also interrogated in this chapter.

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Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

Carvings in and out of Time

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 123

Cover Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Sep 2021

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