Songs and Hymns for Hathor as Gold from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period. Part I. Corpora of Texts and Complementary Documents

Abstract

The form of Hathor as Nbw ‘Gold’ is one of her least known aspects before the Graeco-Roman period and lacks a specific study. This is partly due to the nature of the sources for the period between the Old Kingdom and the end of the Late Period. In them, she emerges as one of the oldest deities to appear in songs and hymns, dating back to the second half of the Old Kingdom. Analysis of these hymnic and musical contexts provides insights into the Egyptian religiosity and culture of that period and later times. This study has been divided into two parts. The first one is presented here, and it consists of the corpus of songs and hymns, together with two complementary corpora for the study of this form of Hathor. These include collected inscriptional data and onomastics, reviews of selected readings, and consideration of prosodic aspects