Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries /

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Main Author: Willems, Harco (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English
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Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Culture and History of the ancient Near East ; 73.
CHANE ; 73.

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Call Number: DS41 .C85 v.73

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245 1 0 |a Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture :   |b religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries /   |c by Harco Willems. 
264 1 |a Leiden ;  |a Boston :  |b Brill,  |c 2014. 
300 |a ix, 389 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations (some color), plans ;  |c 25 cm. 
490 1 |a Culture and History of the ancient Near East ;   |v 73. 
490 1 |a CHANE ;   |v 73. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-350) and index. 
505 0 |a •Preface •Note to the Reader •Introduction •1. Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects •The Origin of the Nomes •The Nomes during the Fifth Dynasty •Nome Administration under the Sixth Dynasty •Regional Administration during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom •The Nomarch Title in Egyptian and in Egyptology •2. A Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery: Dayr al-Barsha •The 2006 Excavations in Zone 10 •The Early Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery in Zone 2 •1. The Evidence of the Shaft Types •2. The Debate on the Date of the Nehri Graffiti (once more) •3. The Ahanakht I Tomb Group •The Ritual Landscape of Dayr al-Barsha •3. The Coffin Texts Democracy •The Roots of the 'Democratic Hypothesis' •Transformations of the Funerary Equipment during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom •A Demographic Perspective on the Coffin Texts •Quantification of the Decorated Coffins from Dayr al-Barsha •Quantification of the Decorated Coffins from Bani Hasan •Quantification of the Decorated Coffins from Asyut •The Uneven Distribution of the Coffin Texts •The Geographic Distribution of the Coffin Texts •Saqqara and Abu Sir •Thebes and al-Lisht •Middle Egypt •The Coffin Texts and Funerary Religion in Nomarchal Key Sites •A Hypothesis on the Meaning of the Coffin Texts •The Letters to the Dead •Coffin Texts Spells 131-146 •Coffin Texts Spell 149 •Coffin Texts Spells 30-41 •Coffin Texts Spell 312 •A First Conclusion •The Case of Heqata •The Case of the Coffins of the Mid-Twelfth Dynasty •Conclusion •Family Life in the Middle Kingdom •The Coffin Texts and the Nomarchs' Courts •Owners of 'Text Coffins' and Users of Coffin Texts •The 'Bottom-up' Proliferation of Funerary Customs •Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of the Coffin Texts •Concordance to the Sigla of Coffin Texts Manuscripts and Middle Kingdom Coffins •Bibliography •Plates •Index  
630 0 0 |a Coffin texts. 
650 0 |a Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient  |z Egypt. 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x Antiquities. 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x History  |y Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C. 
651 0 |a Egypt  |x Religious life and customs. 
830 0 |a Culture and History of the ancient Near East ;   |v 73. 
830 0 |a CHANE ;   |v 73. 
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