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The use of symbolism by the ancient Egyptians is an important and powerful way of imposing their view of life. By definition, symbols represent something other than what they actually depict, based on conventionally agreed-on meanings. The case of the civilisation of ancient Egypt is paradigmatic because the ancient Egyptians expressed and affirmed many of their ideological and political ideas, for example, through symbols and symbolic languages. In the representational forms of Egyptian art visual symbols were employed to manifest some ideas of political domination. Is the case of the ritual scenes of smiting enemies, a topos of the Egyptian iconography of a military nature which runs through Egyptian history almost in its entirety, from the 4th millennium BC until the 2nd century AD. In this paper we would like to present some important examples of the use of the ritual scenes of smiting enemies, especially in architectural structures (pylons of divine and funerary temples), to understand the meaning and functions of this visual symbol.
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Egyptian architecture Ideology Ritual scenes Winning pharaoh
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Sales, José das Candeias - The ritual scenes of smiting the enemies in the pylons of Egyptian temples: symbolism and functions. In Popielska-Grzybowska, Joanna; Iwaszczuk, Jadwiga, eds. - "Thinking symbols interdisciplinary studies" [Em linha] Pultusk: Pultusk Academy of Humanities. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2017. ISBN 978-83-7549-311-5. p. 257-267
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Pultusk Academy of Humanities. Department of Archaeology and Anthropolog