Gutenberg Open Science: The visual perception of fatigue and sleep in bas-relief from the Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom

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dc.contributor.author	Gerhards, Simone	-
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-04T11:53:17Z	-
dc.date.available	2024-04-04T11:53:17Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9659	-
dc.description.abstract	Sleep is often viewed as one of the most intimate and private activities that we carry out. Therefore, it is not surprising that the motif of a fatigued or sleeping person is not common in Egyptian artwork. Compared to the written sources, the number of visual representations is considerably reduced. It is a challenge to identify sleeping or fatigued persons in art and to distinguish between these stages. A person lying in a bed does not necessarily have to be asleep, but the bed as a place can hint at other aspects such as procreation, birth, or death. There are several sign codes in modern perception, which can help to recognise whether a person is asleep or tired. In Western culture, yawning, for example, is a typical visual marker of tiredness, but in ancient Egypt, this does not seem to exist. This paper briefly examines the primary markers that visually indicate sleep or fatigue in bas-relief in ancient Egypt.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	InCopyright	*
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	930 Alte Geschichte	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	930 History of ancient world	en_GB
dc.subject.ddc	960 Geschichte Afrikas	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	960 General history of Africa	en_GB
dc.title	The visual perception of fatigue and sleep in bas-relief from the Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom	en_GB
dc.type	Buchbeitrag	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9641	-
jgu.type.contenttype	Scientific article	de
jgu.type.dinitype	bookPart	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 07 Geschichts- u. Kulturwissensch.	de
jgu.organisation.number	7930	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.book.title	Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists : ICE XII : 3rd-8th November 2019, Cairo, Egypt	en_GB
jgu.book.editor	El-Aguizy, Ola	-
jgu.book.editor	Kasparian, Burt	-
jgu.pages.start	1237	de
jgu.pages.end	1243	de
jgu.publisher.year	2023	-
jgu.publisher.name	Institut français d’archéologie orientale	de
jgu.publisher.place	Cairo	de
jgu.publisher.isbn	978-2-7247-0953-7	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	930	de
jgu.subject.ddccode	960	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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