Dealing with the dead in ancient Egypt : the funerary business of Petebaste /

Dealing with the dead in ancient Egypt : the funerary business of Petebaste /

"Petebaste son of Peteamunip, the choachyte, or water-pourer, lived during the first half of the seventh century BCE in the reigns of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Kushite kings Shabaka and Taharqa and was responsible for the comfortable and carefree afterlife of his deceased clients by bringing the...

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Main Author: Donker van Heel, K. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American Univeristy in Cairo Press, 2021.

Subjects:

Undertakers and undertaking > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
Death care industry > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt.
Family archives > Egypt > Thebes (Extinct city)
Egyptian language > Papyri, Hieratic.
Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) > Social life and customs.
Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) > Social conditions.
Egypt > History > To 332 B.C.
Egypt > Civilization > To 332 B.C.
Egypt > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DT73 .T3 D67 2021

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Table of Contents:
  • The texts
  • Previous study of the texts
  • The choachyte Petebaste
  • A family of clients
  • So why was hieratic abnormal?
  • Just a captive from Gaza
  • Are you buying or leasing this man?
  • What is this document doing here?
  • Burying your grandparents
  • The trial that backfired
  • Did Petebaste own a field?
  • Two accounts of a single funeral
  • The second account
  • Epilogue.