Schrift und Material

English summary: Texts and images do not exist independently of their carrier objects: they facilitate their distribution and use. However, the characteristics of carriers were adapted to the use, as was the selection of texts and images. This interplay of interdependencies is considered theoretically and on the basis of ancient Egyptian sources, offering up fresh approaches to two old questions. The consequences for the possible scope and limits of archaeological reconstruction of...
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English summary: Texts and images do not exist independently of their carrier objects: they facilitate their distribution and use. However, the characteristics of carriers were adapted to the use, as was the selection of texts and images. This interplay of interdependencies is considered theoretically and on the basis of ancient Egyptian sources, offering up fresh approaches to two old questions. The consequences for the possible scope and limits of archaeological reconstruction of past contexts lead on to methodological self-reflection in the field of Egyptology. In addition, opportunities to describe complex action-patterns in former times relationships are unveiled. The relativity of addressing objects in different contexts and a meaning-orientated pluralism rapidly emerges, which in turn leads to more individualism of the individual object. German description: Texte und Bilder existieren nicht losgelost von ihrem Tragerobjekt: Es ermoglicht ihre Verbreitung und Verwendung. Aber die Eigenschaften des Tragers waren auf den Gebrauch abgestimmt, ebenso die Auswahl der Inhalte von Texten und Bildern. Dieses Zusammenspiel gegenseitiger Abhangigkeiten wird in diesem Band fur Quellen aus dem Alten Agypten theoretisch und anhand konkreter Beispiele betrachtet, was neue Zugange zu zwei alten Fragen bietet: Ihre Konsequenzen fur Moglichkeiten und Grenzen archaologischer Rekonstruktion der vergangenen Kontexte fuhren die methodische Eigenreflektion im Fach Agyptologie voran. Daneben werden Chancen aufgedeckt, einstige komplexe Handlungszusammenhange zu beschreiben. Schnell drangt sich die Relativitat der Ansprache von Objekten in verschiedenen Kontexten und ein Bedeutungspluralismus auf, der konsequenterweise wieder hin zu mehr Individualismus des Einzelobjektes fuhrt.