Material Sources of Predynastic Egypt in the Context of the Concept of “Cultural Memory”

Abstract

In the pre-written period, the main sources of cultural memory as an important basis for mytho-religious representations of classical ancient Egypt are the material sources: archaeological sites, pictorial texts, their compositions, motifs and images. The sample for analytical work is related to ritual objects. These include painted vessels of type C and D, polychrome panel from the elite burial in Hierakonpolis, slate palettes, funeral masks. The result of the research was the conclusion that these pictorial texts represent a model of the world. The image-symbolic language of pictorial texts reveals the structure of the universe, which in the written period was embodied in numerous myths and rituals.