damnatio memoriae<\/em>, “the damnation of memory.”<\/p>\nThe ancient Egyptians said that a person dies three times: death of the body, death of the memory, and death of the name.\u00a0 First, one’s physical body dies.\u00a0 Second, the memory of the person dies as those carrying a living memory of that person also die.\u00a0 Finally, the person suffers a death of name as all traces of his name,\u00a0when all traces of the name (or image) of that person perish.<\/p>\n
An interesting block from Tell el-Amarna shows a relief of two Nubians and two Semitic Asiatics.\u00a0 The faces of the Asiatics were chiseled out while the faces of the Nubians remained intact.\u00a0 Workers took the block from one Akhenaten’s construction projects and used it as fill for a pylon during the reign of Seti I.\u00a0 This means that the defacement took place between the reigns of Tutankhamun and Seti I.\u00a0 The damnatio memoriae<\/em> was an attempt to destroy the memory of the Asiatics to hasten their ultimate death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest from the excavation at Tell Edfu reported the discovery of a private shrine inside a home.\u00a0 Such a find is normally rare as few private shrines have survived the archaeological record.\u00a0 But more interesting is that someone scratched out the faces of the worshiped figures.\u00a0 Modern scholars call this the damnatio memoriae, “the…<\/p>\n
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