Akhet Lions

Abstract/Contents

Abstract

Close-up of the Papyrus of Ani, Dynasty 19, Thebes, now in the British Museum. Scene shows two lions flanking a representation of the sky (pet) above the sun descending between two hills (akhet, the horizon).

Description

Type of resource	still image
Extent	1 jpg file

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Cosmic Connections & Symbolic Alignments
Source	Title Image AN413766001, courtesy The British Museum, image copyright Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_i...
Part of publication	Title Sullivan, Elaine A. Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis at Saqqara, Redwood City: Stanford University Press 2020, http://doi.org/10.21627/2020cts
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sb111fk1980

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Stanford University, 2019.

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Collection

Constructing the Sacred Archive

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