Interdisciplinary research on the transition of funerary customs of the Ancient Egyptian Civilization and its social background

About this project

Japan Grant Number
JP26257010
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Project/Area Number
26257010
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type
  • Single-year Grants
Review Section / Research Field
  • Humanities and Social Sciences > Humanities > History > Archaeology
Research Institution
  • Higashi Nippon International University
Project Period (FY)
2014-04-01 〜 2019-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
42,770,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 32,900,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 9,870,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

Various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian society had changed during the Middle and New Kingdoms. The present research was aimed at understanding characteristics of this change through interdisciplinary analyses of objects mainly from cemeteries and searching for a catalyst for the change. The result shows the possibility that the emergence of the ‘personal piety’, an individual's personal relationship with a deity, where the king as the intermediary between the human and divine realms was no longer necessary, had played an important role. The ‘personal piety’ has long been argued, and traditional models of personal piety are based on texts and images. Our result is noteworthy because the material evidence of the cemetery also demonstrated that the idea of the ‘personal piety’ was quite pervasive throughout various social classes more than previously expected.

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