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Notes about Asian Censers in the British Museum and Coptic type of Censers

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Incense burners had great importance in Monotheistic religions and other worships such as Buddhism as well as Hinduism. and they played an important role in prayer, also took important sacred forms in every Religion, including the lotus flower. As well as a sacred flower in Hinduism and Buddhism. In Christianity, incense burners appeared in many forms, such as in animal form, in the form of a church, or in floral shapes. They were used in daily life, while the incense burners used in religious rituals were in the form of a bowl with three chains. Coptic incense burners in the form of (pine corn), concentrated in southern Egypt (Nubia). I noticed that a similar incense burner appeared in the Asian department collection of the British Museum dating back to 14 A.D. in Indonesia (Java). that almost matches the types of the Coptic Censers style in the form of pine corn that spread in southern Egypt in the Fourth and the Fifth A.D. century, so I compared the group of Egyptian incense burners and the Indonesian incense burner and tried to reach the reason for the great similarity between them and the possibility that incense burner belong to Egypt or not in light of archaeological and artistic evidence.

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10.21608/thalexu.2024.311879.1135

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Incense burners, Louts, pine corn, Buddhism, Hinduism

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Mamdouh Mohamed Mamdouh Osman

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Elkaradawy

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Institute of Coptic Research and Studies - Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University

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mmdoohkaradawi@gmail.com

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21

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2

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52368

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2024-12-01

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2024-08-12

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2024-12-31

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103

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110

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2314-7024

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2682-2180

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The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University

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Notes about Asian Censers in the British Museum and Coptic type of Censers

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30 Dec 2024