The Tomb Of Parennefer Butler Of Pharaoh Akhenaten

Author : Susan Redford
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646022069

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The Tomb of Parennefer, Butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten by Susan Redford Pdf

Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten (1353–1336 BCE). The result of several years of clearance and recording by Dr. Susan Redford, director of the Akhenaten Temple Project’s Theban Tomb Survey, this richly illustrated book provides a detailed description of the remaining wall scenes and texts of this historically important ancient monument. In the fourteenth century BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten attempted to institute a radical religious reform and moved his capital city to Amarna. This book publishes important evidence related to the Amarna period in ancient Egypt, specifically the plans, reliefs, and inscriptions of Theban Tomb 188, belonging to Parennefer, the tutor and butler of the king. Dr. Redford’s detailed archaeological study traces the rapid evolution of ideology, iconography, and iconoclasm, as revealed in Parennefer’s tomb. The decoration kept pace with the momentous changes in the king’s thinking, so that, when dovetailed with the pictorial evidence from the excavations of the great Gem-pa-aten temple at Karnak, it becomes possible to chronicle these rapid changes. This definitive study of the tomb of Parennefer will appeal to archaeologists, Egyptologists, historians of religion, and art historians working on the ancient Near East.

Author : Susan Redford
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1646021924

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The Tomb of Parennefer, Butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten by Susan Redford Pdf

A detailed exploration of the remaining wall scenes and texts from the tomb of Parennefer, the royal butler of the pharaoh Akhenaten, part of the archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis in Egypt.

Author : Asunta F. Redford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0542833018

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Theban Tomb No. 188 (the Tomb of Parennefer) by Asunta F. Redford Pdf

There is substantial evidence from recent archaeological investigations in the Valley of the Nobles, particularly in the vicinity of Deir el Bahari, of secondary interments in the rock-carved sepulchers from the 18th Dynasty on a large scale. Theban Tomb #188, the tomb of the royal butler, Parennefer, is one excellent example that serves as a significant case study. This monument, located in the Assasif region of the ancient Theban necropolis, has been the focus of the author's field research for the past 12 years. The subsequent clearance, documentation and analysis of the structure, its environs and artifactual and human remains forms the basis of this present study. The tomb was built in the first four years of the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (ca. 1377-1360 B.C.), for the royal butler, Parennefer. A stepped shaft and burial chamber excavated to receive Parennefer's mummy, however, held no remnants of funerary equipment or coffin fragments which could be dated to the 18th Dynasty. Instead, this shaft and burial crypt along with four others which had been excavated through the floor of the hall yielded substantial mortuary material (along with a large number of human remains) which can be stylistically (and prosopographically) linked to the later interments. Oral communication with other archaeologists working in the necropolis and published reports from the last 20 years have confirmed this widespread occurrence. An study of textual evidence from the Old Kingdom through the Ptolemaic Period collated with the archaeological remains of Parennefer's tomb reveals a picture of tomb inheritance and the legal appropriation of monuments (including T.T. 188) in the Theban necropolis.

Author : Ronald T. Ridley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979446

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Akhenaten by Ronald T. Ridley Pdf

A groundbreaking historiography of the reign of Akhenaten More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (‘the Amarna Period’) than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast range of interpretations and theories that can leave the uninitiated utterly bewildered. Against this background, Akhenaten: A Historian’s View examines what scholars have said over the years regarding key aspects of the period, to produce a ‘history of histories,’ exploring exactly how various chains of arguments were arrived at—and how houses of cards thus erected have subsequently come tumbling down. In particular, it teases out ideas based on solid documentation from those based on theory and fancy, and tracks ways in which new evidence became available, how it was interpreted, and how it fed—or didn't—into the big picture. This book thus fills a major gap in the literature of the Amarna Period and also contributes to the wider, and much neglected, field of the historiography of ancient Egypt.

Author : Pascal Vernus,Jean Yoyotte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801440505

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The Book of the Pharaohs by Pascal Vernus,Jean Yoyotte Pdf

The names of ancient Egyptian kings such as Cheops, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II have become part of popular culture. Yet, for all the tombs and statuary that have survived over the millennia, surprisingly little remains that speaks to the workings of government, cabals in the palace, political factions, and the private lives of the royal families. In The Book of the Pharaohs, Pascal Vernus and Jean Yoyotte offer an indispensable, basic reference to the full human reality of royal Egypt. The Book of the Pharaohs is an encyclopedia made up of short essays on the pharaohs themselves, as well as on places, dynasties, personages, subjects, and themes relating to the kings and their rule. Entries range from "Adoratrices" (priestesses of Hathor, the Egyptian Aphrodite, whose role was to arouse the erotic impulse in the creator gods) and "Amarna" (the capital created by the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten) to "Scorpion" (who ruled before the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt) and "Zero Dynasty" (the designation for pre-pharaonic Egypt). In addition, Vernus and Yoyotte include a substantial essay on the sources for Egyptian history, a bibliography of books for general readers, and a chronological table that organizes the major periods of Egyptian history and notes the most illustrious royal names from each.

Author : Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134690411

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Akhenaten by Dominic Montserrat Pdf

The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.

Author : Davide Nadali
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474223973

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Envisioning the Past Through Memories by Davide Nadali Pdf

Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality. Comparing ancient and contemporary mechanisms for the preservation of memories and the building of a common cultural, political and social memory, this volume aims to reveal the nature of memory, and explores the attitudes of ancient societies towards the creation of a memory to be handed down in words, pictures, and mental constructs. Since the multiple natures of memory involve every human activity, physical and intellectual, this volume promotes analyses and considerations about memory by focusing on various different cultural activities and productions of ancient Near Eastern societies, from artistic and visual documents to epigraphic evidence, and by considering archaeological data. The chapters of this volume analyse the value and function of memory within the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, textual and iconographical evidence following a progression from the analysis of the creation and preservation of both single and multiple memories, to the material culture (things and objects) that shed light on the impact of memory on individuals and community.

Author : Arthur Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615160740

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The Bible's Cover-Stories Revealed by Arthur Jones Pdf

A concise, illustrated historical treatise, which solves the puzzle of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and resolves the riddle of Judeo-Christian religion by revealing three cover-stories in the Bible's Books of Genesis and Exodus.

Author : David P. Silverman,Josef W. Wegner,Jennifer Houser Wegner
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1931707901

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Akhenaten and Tutankhamun by David P. Silverman,Josef W. Wegner,Jennifer Houser Wegner Pdf

The Amarna Period, named after the site of an innovative capital city that was the center of the new religion, included the reigns of heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his presumed son, the boy king Tutankhamun.

Author : Maarten J. Raven,René van Walsem,Willem F. M. Beex,Amanda Dunsmore,Ladislava Horáčková
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 2503548768

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The Tomb of Meryneith at Saqqara by Maarten J. Raven,René van Walsem,Willem F. M. Beex,Amanda Dunsmore,Ladislava Horáčková Pdf

This funerary monument of a high Memphite official was discovered by a joint expedition of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University in 2001. Meryneith started his career as steward of the Memphite temple of the sun god Aten during the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten. During midlife, he may have joined the court set up by the Pharaoh at the new capital at Amarna. He ended his career under Tutankhamun as high-priest of the Aten in the Memphite temple again. Thereby, the importance of the tomb of Meryneith lies in the fact that for the first time it allows us to witness various stages in the rise and fall of the Amarna heresy from a Memphite point of view. Thus the tomb-owner was apparently forced to change his name from Meryneith - with its reference to the now proscribed goddess Neith - into Meryre. Several other variants of his name and some additional titles came to light, revealing various stages in his career. These stages mirror the ideological developments of the Amarna Period and its immediate aftermath, which are further illustrated by the different styles of the decoration of the tomb. This proved to be remarkably well preserved and consists of both wall-reliefs and paintings on mud plaster. Thanks to the evidence of the inscriptions, it can be observed how the tomb was built and decorated in various stages, each characterized by a marked change in style and iconography. The present report includes a full description of these wall scenes, as well as chapters on the career of the tomb-owner, on the double statue of Meryneith and his wife found in one of the west chapels, and on the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the course of the excavations.

Author : M J. Raven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 9088908117

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The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara by M J. Raven Pdf

The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different.Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably in t.

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Egypt
ISBN : PRNC:32101020211536

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The Rock Tombs of El Amarna: Tombs of Parennefer, Tutu, and Aÿ by Norman de Garis Davies Pdf

Author : Juan Carlos Moreno García
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004250086

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Ancient Egyptian Administration by Juan Carlos Moreno García Pdf

Ancient Egyptian Administration provides the first comprehensive overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the end of the Late Period. The book not only focuses on bureaucracy, departments, and official practices but also on more informal issues like patronage, the limits in the actual exercise of authority, and the competing interests between institutions and factions within the ruling elite. Furthermore, general chapters devoted to the best-documented periods in Egyptian history are supplemented by more detailed ones dealing with specific archives, regions, and administrative problems. The volume thus produced by an international team of leading scholars will be an indispensable, up-to-date, tool of research covering a much-neglected aspect of pharaonic civilization.

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010144793

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The Rock Tombs of El Amarna by Norman de Garis Davies Pdf

Author : Ahmed Osman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Egypt
ISBN : UCAL:B3701950

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Moses by Ahmed Osman Pdf