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.

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