Cult Installation in Greco- Roman Egypt

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1 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University of Sadat City

2 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels Management, Helwan University

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Religious life in Egypt had a special character; religion involved in people's life, they keen to keep a connection with gods and create mediation inside their house. On other hand the Roman materialism were imposed some changes on the priests clergy. They were not carrying about the people's needs any more, people consequently turned their personal religious life towards the home, especially when they noticed that the sacred rituals were not being performed by pious priests, but by some agents of a foreign oppressor. The house was a mirror which reflects the religious concepts of its inhabitants, most houses contained one or more shrines, signifying the possibility of various worship practices. Houses' chaples which was the biggest room, they always contained niches where the figurines were put. The chaples might contain some wall paintings that depicted the images of gods as Heron, Disocuri, Isis and Harpocrates. Karanis's houses were characterized with different religious objects as figurines and textile dolls that gained its divine power from the gods of temple, as they were manufactured on temples. This thesis tries to recognize how people created sacred ambience in their houses; it explores cult items which helped them to perform domestic religious rites.

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