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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.
Funerary rituals and the cult of the dead are classics of research in religious studies, especially for ancient Egypt. Still, we know relatively little about how people interacted in daily life at the city of Memphis and its Saqqara necropolis in the late second millennium BCE. By focussing on lived ancient religion, we can see that the social and religious strategies employed by the individuals at Saqqara are not just means on the way to religious, post-mortem salvation, nor is their self-representation simply intended to manifest social status. On the contrary, the religious practices at Saqqara show in their complex spatiality a wide spectrum of options to configure sociality before and after one's own death. The analytical distinction between religion and other forms of human practices and sociality illuminates the range of cultural practices and how people selected, modified, or even avoided certain religious practices. As a result, pre-funerary, funerary and practices of the subsequent mortuary cults, in close connection with religious practices directed towards other ancestors and deities, allow the formation of imagined and functioning reminiscence clusters as central social groups at Saqqara, creating a heuristic model applicable also to other contexts.
The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom by Nico Staring Pdf
This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site’s development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs’ spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes.
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt by Morris L. Bierbrier Pdf
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition covers the whole range of the history of ancient Egypt from the Prehistoric Period until the end of Roman rule in Egypt based on the latest information provided by academic scholars and archaeologists. This is done through a revised introduction on the history of ancient Egypt, the dictionary section has over 1,000 dictionary entries on historical figures, geographical locations, important institutions and other facets of ancient Egyptian civilization. This is followed by two appendices one of which is a chronological table of Egyptian rulers and governors and the other a list of all known museums which contain ancient Egyptian objects. The volume ends with a detailed bibliography of Egyptian historical periods, archaeological sites, general topics such as pyramids, languages and arts and crafts and the publications of Egyptian material in museums throughout the world.
Author : Barbara G. Aston,David A. Aston,Jacobus Van Dijk Publisher : Unknown Page : 0 pages File Size : 44,5 Mb Release : 2023 Category : Art ISBN : 0856982458
The Tomb of Maya and Meryt, III by Barbara G. Aston,David A. Aston,Jacobus Van Dijk Pdf
Maya was one of the most important officials of state under Tutankhamun. The holder of many titles in the administration, the chief of which was overseer of the treasury, he was also responsible for the security of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Maya and his wife Meryt erected a magnificent tomb at Saqqara, the necropolis of the capital city, Memphis. Wrecked in antiquity by tomb robbers, much remained nevertheless to be recorded by the EES-Leiden mission, which located the tomb in 1986.
Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by Nicky Nielsen Pdf
Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by Professor Steven Snape), this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal military site, but also in Ramesside Egypt more broadly. Constructed during the reign of Ramesses II, the fortified settlement was situated 300 kilometres west of Alexandria and represents the furthest western outpost of the Egyptian New Kingdom empire. Excavations in Area K of the fortress have uncovered extensive evidence for the living arrangements, minor industries, food production and daily life of the fort's inhabitants. This previously unpublished material forms the bedrock of this volume, which focuses on analysing the various subsistence and craft production strategies that were conducted alongside each other in this area, from baking, brewing and butchery to lithics working, bone-carving and weaving. These traces of the activities of the soldiers and their families shed new light on what life was like at this military installation and for ordinary Egyptians more widely, shifting away from a focus on elite social groups. The archaeological evidence covered in this book prompts a re-evaluation of the realities of the relationship between Egyptians and Libyans at the close of the Late Bronze Age. The purpose of the fortress' construction was primarily defensive, however the surviving material points to co-operation by means of collaborative farming and trading, and provides a direct counterpoint to the more belligerent contemporary royal monumental inscriptions describing Egypto-Libyan relations.
Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur Bd. 45 (2016) by Jochem Kahl,Nicole Kloth Pdf
A. Abdel-Raziq: An unpublished small sculpture of a female acrobat at the Al-Salam School Museum in Assiut. N. Abdelwahed | J. M. Iskander | T. Tawfik: The Blocks from the Nilometer at Roda. Preliminary Report on the Reconstruction Work. B. Ahmed: The Stela of Hori-Sheri at the Egyptian Museum (Cairo JE 59858). H. Beinlich: Das Relief Hildesheim F 38. M. Wilding Brown: A New Analysis of the Titles of Teti on Statue BM EA 888. K. Cortebeeck: Stamp seals in ancient Egyptian tombs. A revision of the usages in quest of the sex of their owners. K. Hassan: Two Administrative Hieratic ostraca from Deir el-Bahri (Late 20th and Early 21st Dynasties). B. Hufft: Motivtransfer und Rezeption? Ein Beitrag zu den ägyptischen reliefierten Lotuskelchen der 3. Zwischenzeit. K. Jansen-Winkeln: H#wtj "Anführer" als allgemeine Bezeichnung und als Titel. E. Lanciers: The Cult of Arensnuphis in Thebes in the Graeco-Roman Period. H. Madkour: An Eleventh Dynasty Stela of the Priest Ka-whmi. D. Metawi: A Late-Eighteenth Dynasty Memphite Stela (Cairo Museum JE 20222). A. J. Morales: A false-door spell in the Pyramid Texts? An interpretation for the discontinuation of PT355. A. J. Morales | S. Falk | M. Osman | R. Sánchez: Casado | H. Shared | K. Yamamoto | E. H. Zidan: The Middle Kingdom Theban Project Preliminary report on the Freie Universität Mission to Deir el-Bahari, First and Second Seasons (2015–2016). J. F. Quack: Zur Situierung von TB 166 Pleyte. M. G. Rashed | A. A. Abdelrahman: The Statue of Ankhef-Khonsou from Karnak Cachette (CK 1164). J. C. Sánchez-León | A. Jiménez-Serrano: Keeping Provincial Power in the Lineage During the Twelfth Dynasty: The Case of Khema, Governor of Elephantine. J. M. Serrano: Threesolar hymns from Dra Abu el-Naga. S. Soleiman An Inscribed Slab of Unknown Ownership discovered recently at Saqqara. N. Staring: RevisitingThree Objects in Berlin Pertaining to the Mayor of Memphis, Ptahmose The "Lost" Faience Stela ÄM 19718 and the Limestone Pyramid Panels ÄM 1631-1632. S. Töpfer: Teile des Totenbuches des Anch-ef-en-Chonsu, Sohn des Bes-en-Mut in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Wien Aeg. 12022a+b).
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.
This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians’ belief in the afterlife. Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary practices Draws on a range of data, including architecture, artifacts and texts Discusses tombs within the context of everyday life in Ancient Egypt Stresses the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the self
Author : Henry George Fischer Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art Page : 94 pages File Size : 44,8 Mb Release : 1996 Category : Egypt ISBN : 9780870997563
The Tomb of I̕p at El Ṣaff by Henry George Fischer Pdf
Photographs, facsimile drawings, and watercolor paintings, as well as descriptive text and documentation, of the tomb chapel of Ip at El Staff. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Excavations at Saqqara (1911-12) by J. Quibell Pdf
An excerpt from the beginning: During the two seasons of 1910-11 and 1911-12 the greater part of our time was devoted to that part of the cemetery which lies on the high ground overhanging the village of Abusir. Here an area perhaps 600 metres long and 250 wide is covered by crude brick mastabas of the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties, all much denuded, but singularly free from burials of a later date. Two patches of ground in this area have been fully cleared and some 5oo mastabas of varying sizes, some very large but most quite small, dug out. All but a mere half dozen and those of the poorest, had been robbed in a remote antiquity, almost certainly during the Old Kingdom: no paintings and hardly any inscriptions on stone were found. The interest of the tombs lies in a mass of detail, in the plans, the pottery, the stone bowls and such matters. Of them a separate report is being prepared. But one tomb, found in the first week of the second season, has an interest very different in degree and in kind. It had been much less denuded than the others and one wall was covered with paintings of a character new to Egyptian archaeology. These will interest many scholars to whom the details of tomb construction would be only tedious, and seemed to us worthy of a volume to themselves. With this view the Director General agreed, and in consequence the publication of this one tomb precedes that of all the others found near it. The tomb is that of Hesy, found long ago by Mariette, and famous for the five wooden panels which he brought from it to Boulaq. Drawings of three of these appear in the "Mastabas" and photographs in the "Album de Boulaq" and in several other works; the fourth and fifth remained unpublished till Weill gave them in his thesis on the 2nd and 3rd Dynasties. It has been often stated that Mariette gave no information as to the position in which the panels stood. This is not quite the case, for in the "Albums" it is clearly said that: "Le tombeau de Hosi est construit en briques jaunatres et la chambre principale est un long couloir percé de nombreuses niches rectangulaires. C'est au fond de trois de ces niches que nous avons retiré les précieux panneaux...". This is quite correct except that the bricks are black, not yellowish. The position of the tomb, however, is not given in any publication, and by some oversight it was not pointed out to De Morgan when he made his map of the site. But all this while it was well remembered by one of Mariette's workmen, Osman Duqmaq, who is still with us and whose acquaintance with the cemetery began "in the reign of Said Pasha, two years before Ismail" i. e. in 1861. He was then a basket boy in the excavations, and, except for five years in Mariette's service in Cairo and the south, has been in Saqqara ever since and either in Government service or in temporary suspension therefrom has always made his living from the antiquities. He has a strong, though not a faultless memory and can recall most of the digging that has taken place here during the last fifty years. When we began to work in the neighbourhood he told me about the wooden stelae, described the niches in which they were found and pointed out a certain dark mound near us as the site of the tomb.
