Crenças funerárias e identidade cultural no Egito Romano: máscaras de múmia / Funerary beliefs and cultural identity in Roman Egypt: mummy masks

AUTOR(ES)

Marcia Severina Vasques

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Through the analysis of burial masks of Roman Egypt we discuss some relevant issues bearing on the Egyptian society of those times. Prominent among them is the creation of a local elite of “Greek”origin by the Roman government, and its role in the propagation of elements of Greek and Roman origin in the Egyptian cultural milieu, which can be observed in the facial characteristics and in the garments portrayed in the burial masks. These artistic forms varied chronologically and geographically, according to the regional particularities and the interest of the dominant elite, allied to the Roman Empire. In this complex network of social relationships the funerary beliefs of the Roman Egypt mantain the tradition which reaches back to the pharaonic period. The mask may be considered as much as a safeguard of the social memory of the dead, which, in this way, preserves his social status, as well as his double one and magic substitute in the Beyond.

ASSUNTO(S)

etnicidade burial masks egito romano costumes funerários ethnicity roman egypt cultural identity religião funerária identidade cultural funerary religion máscaras funerárias

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