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Research paper thumbnail of The Materialization of Ancient Egyptian Kingship Ideology in the New Kingdom (c.a. 1550-1070 B.C.)

Organization: Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference Start Date: April 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Signs of Protest: The Semiotics of the Egyptian Revolution of 25 January

Organization: American Ethnological Society Conference Start Date: Apr 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Near Eastern Conceptions of Wisdom

Research paper thumbnail of Ancient Pharaonic Statues and the Quest for Conception amongst the Rural Population in Egypt

Papers by A.S. Melika

Research paper thumbnail of The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Proverbs, and Coptic Monastic Texts: A Sociohistorical Reading

Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times, 2024

Melika, A.S. “The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Pro... more Melika, A.S. “The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Proverbs, and Coptic Monastic Texts: A Sociohistorical Reading.” In Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times, edited by MARIAM F. AYAD, 67–110. The American University in Cairo Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.809342.9.

Research paper thumbnail of The Founding of the Temple in Ancient Egypt: Ritual and Symbolism

An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, A Refuge for the People": Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier , 2020

AMONG THE ACADEMIC TOPICS that have captured the attention of James Hoffmeier throughout his lust... more AMONG THE ACADEMIC TOPICS that have captured the attention of James Hoffmeier throughout his lustrous career is ancient Egyptian religion. As a token of appreciation, I dedicate these observations to him. The founding of the temple rituals are well attested in the textual, representational, and archaeological evidence of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia, and Syria-Palestine. 1 In this paper, I will investigate the rituals that comprise the founding of the temple in ancient Egypt. Specifically, I will focus on the temple of Edfu from the Ptolemaic period for representational and textual sources. I will also investigate the material culture of different periods that shed light on the subject, but particularly, the Texte de la Jeunesse, the Berlin Leather Roll, and the Poetical Stela from the New Kingdom period. 2 This paper does not examine all the evidence, textual or otherwise, of temple building in ancient Egypt, yet of the examined data an illustration of the overall structure of this phenomenon is brought to light mostly from the New Kingdom and beyond. Any investigation of the subject of temple building in the ancient world must take into account the multileveled symbolic signification or representation of this cultural

Research paper thumbnail of The Materialization of Ancient Egyptian Kingship Ideology in the New Kingdom (c.a. 1550-1070 B.C.)

Organization: Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference Start Date: April 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Signs of Protest: The Semiotics of the Egyptian Revolution of 25 January

Organization: American Ethnological Society Conference Start Date: Apr 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Near Eastern Conceptions of Wisdom

Research paper thumbnail of Ancient Pharaonic Statues and the Quest for Conception amongst the Rural Population in Egypt

Research paper thumbnail of The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Proverbs, and Coptic Monastic Texts: A Sociohistorical Reading

Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times, 2024

Melika, A.S. “The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Pro... more Melika, A.S. “The Poor, Poverty, and Materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, the Book of Proverbs, and Coptic Monastic Texts: A Sociohistorical Reading.” In Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times, edited by MARIAM F. AYAD, 67–110. The American University in Cairo Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.809342.9.

Research paper thumbnail of The Founding of the Temple in Ancient Egypt: Ritual and Symbolism

An Excellent Fortress for His Armies, A Refuge for the People": Egyptological, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies in Honor of James K. Hoffmeier , 2020

AMONG THE ACADEMIC TOPICS that have captured the attention of James Hoffmeier throughout his lust... more AMONG THE ACADEMIC TOPICS that have captured the attention of James Hoffmeier throughout his lustrous career is ancient Egyptian religion. As a token of appreciation, I dedicate these observations to him. The founding of the temple rituals are well attested in the textual, representational, and archaeological evidence of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia, and Syria-Palestine. 1 In this paper, I will investigate the rituals that comprise the founding of the temple in ancient Egypt. Specifically, I will focus on the temple of Edfu from the Ptolemaic period for representational and textual sources. I will also investigate the material culture of different periods that shed light on the subject, but particularly, the Texte de la Jeunesse, the Berlin Leather Roll, and the Poetical Stela from the New Kingdom period. 2 This paper does not examine all the evidence, textual or otherwise, of temple building in ancient Egypt, yet of the examined data an illustration of the overall structure of this phenomenon is brought to light mostly from the New Kingdom and beyond. Any investigation of the subject of temple building in the ancient world must take into account the multileveled symbolic signification or representation of this cultural