By Emily Teeter
This paintings reviews the connection among the king and Maat, the personification of "truth," as documented in reliefs of the hot state and 3rd Intermediate interval. It incorporates a specified examine of the chronology, iconography, and theology of the ritual of delivering Maat and the royal identify equated with Maat. critical to the quantity is an research of the development of, and adaptations in, the providing formulation and what variations in these texts mirror in regards to the prestige of the king and in regards to the relevance of Maat to ethics within the Ramesside interval.
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