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Ancient and modern traditions
By Minatullah Abbas, Ingy Nazif and Abdel Rahman Salah
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So what has changed?
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The themes we chose to discuss
Funerary beliefs
Food
Religion
Funerary beliefsSources:
El-Shohoumi, Nadia. "Burying the Dead-Vivifying the Past: Reflections on Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Rites and Their Parallels in Modern Egypt." Moving Matters :
Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institute in Cairo,
2002. 189-214. Print.
SummaryThe different organizations of necropolises during
different times throughout the history of Egypt:
Modern Egypt.1. Ptolemaic Period.2. Ancient Egypt.
AnalysisAncient Egypt Ptolemaic Period Modern Egypt
1. -Embalmer
-Lector priest
2. Mortuary
Priest
1. Embalmer
2. -Libation Priest
-Mortuary
Priest
1. -Grave digger
-Reciter of Quran
2. -Grave digger and
assistant
-Guardian of tomb
-Undertaker is
cairo
Questions Are these beliefs only related to egypt or is there
any other Ancient civilizations who had the same ?
Are the modern Egyptian funerary beliefs only related to Egypt or are they common among other nations ?
Isis and Sayyeda ZeinabSources:
Abu-zahra, Nadia. "Isis and Al-sayyida: Links to Ancient Egypt." Moving Matters: Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institution, 2002. 217-24. Print.
Haeri Bilgrami, Muna. The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zaynab Bint Ali. Pakistan: Zahra Publications, 1986. Print.
Summary
This Chapter of the book
mainly presents the two main
characters : Isis and El-
Sayyida Zeinab. Then
compares the cults associated
to each one.
AnalysisIntroduction,
The ancient cult of Isis and the development of the Egyptian tradition of al-Sayyida zaynab,
The belief that Al-Sayyida is buried in Cairo is the cornerstone of her Egyptian tradition,
Al-Sayyida zaynab the most beautiful mother and patron saint of women,
The assimilation of Indigenous beliefs into Islamic practices, and
The mawlid
Food
How do we know?
Texts
Reliefs
Funerary
context
Manners & essential food Bread and beer.
Old Kingdom text addressed to Kagemni (vizier).
Instructions to King Merikare (first Intermediate
period).
Hunting.
Social classes had an impact on the diet.
What did they eat?
We do not have many examples of recipes
Main meals at noon and in the evening with a
light meal in the afternoon.
A lot of import of new plants and species in the
Middle and New Kingdom
Sugar, lemon, tomatoes, chili, chicken.
Varied food
Meat: mice, beef,
Fish: bulti, catfish, Nile barb….
Fruits: figs, dates, grapes, watermelons,
pomegranate.
Vegetables: beans, lupine beans, lentils…
White barley and red barley
Spices
Thyme Cumin Cinnamon
Fennel Fenugreek
What stayed? Shamsi bread, roqaq Yeasting techniques in Upper Egypt Barley porridge Bread in shapes in the Delta (1st Dynasty) Kahk? Eggs cooked the same but not the same eggs. Salted fish for the Harvest Festival (shmow) Pumpkin in savory dishes Weeka (New Kingdom papyrus)
Weeka Shamsi Roqaq
Sources
Ikram, Salima. "Diet." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Ed. Donald
B. Redford. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. 390-95. Print.
Mehdawy, Magda, and Amr Hussein. The Pharaoh's Kitchen: Recipes from
Ancient Egypt's Enduring Food Traditions. N.p.: I.B.Tauris, 2010.
EBL. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
BibliographyAbu-zahra, Nadia. "Isis and Al-sayyida: Links to Ancient Egypt." Moving Matters: Ethnoarcheology in the
near East. Cairo: Nederlands-vlaams Institution, 2002. 217-24. Print.
El-Shohoumi, Nadia. "Burying the Dead-Vivifying the Past: Reflections on Ancient Egyptian Funerary
Rites and Their Parallels in Modern Egypt." Moving Matters : Ethnoarcheology in the near East. Cairo:
Nederlands-vlaams Institute in Cairo, 2002. 189-214. Print.
Haeri Bilgrami, Muna. The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zaynab Bint Ali. Pakistan: Zahra Publications,
1986. Print.
Ikram, Salima. "Diet." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Ed. Donald B.Redford. Oxford: Oxford
UP, 2001. 390-95. Print.
Mehdawy, Magda, and Amr Hussein. The Pharaoh's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Egypt's Enduring Food
Traditions. N.p.: I.B.Tauris, 2010. EBL. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Illustrations http://www.egyking.info/2012/12/pictures-of-ancient-egyptian-
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/
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http://www.frequency.com/video/how-to-make-roqaq-slices/150281565/-/5-595647
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-cinnamon.html
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