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

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

Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture , a thoroughly reworked translation of Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie published in 2008, challenges the widespread idea that the "royal" Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom after a process of "democratisation...

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Main Author: Willems, Harco.

Format: eBook

Language: English
French

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 73.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

Subjects:

Coffin texts.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt.
Cemeteries > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Tombs > Social aspects > History > Egypt > To 1500.
Elite (Social sciences) > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Democratization > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt > History > Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C.
Egypt > Religious life and customs.

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Call Number: PJ1554 .W55513 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects
  • 2 A Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery: Dayr al-Barshā
  • 3 The Coffin Texts and Democracy
  • Concordance to the Sigla of Coffin Texts Manuscripts and Middle Kingdom Coffins
  • Bibliography
  • Plates
  • Index.