Le tombeau de Mererouka : paleographie /
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"This new volume in the collection "Paléographie hiéroglyphique" is dedicated to the mastaba of Mereuka (early 6th dynasty). It examines the 356 hieroglyphic signs carved (and sometimes painted) found in the tomb. The palaeographical commentary defines the nature of each sign considering the other variants in the contemporary sources and details their different uses in the monument as well as in others. The book is illustrated by 108 plates based on the publication of the mastaba by the Oriental Institute of Chicago, presenting a selection of characteristic drawings of the various hieroglyphs identified" -- back cover.
The Oriental Institute publications keyed to this volume are numbers 31 and 39 in the series -- cataloger note. :
xxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm. :
bibliography : pages xiii-xxii.
La vaisselle en pierre des reines de Pépy Ier /
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"In the cemetery of the family of King Pepy I of the 6th Dynasty (c. 2330-2280), the French-Swiss archaelogical Mission of Saqqâra (MafS) has uncovered eight pyramidal complexes of queens from the end of the Old Kingdom. This publication presents a study and a catalog of some of the material delivered by these tombs, including stone vessels - usually fragmentary and sometimes inscribed, such as that of the queen mother Ankhnespepy II, series of models - dummy vases with symbolic function, containers for food offerings, as well as other items of funeral equipment. The stones encountered are mainly calcite (or travertine, or Egyptian alabaster), gneiss, greywacke, limestone. A wide variety of shapes appears, including large inscribed jars, refined cups, shapes well attested in the 6th dynasty and vases much older than the 6th dynasty. The models reveal a permanence of the shapes compared to those of the previous periods, and it is in the material of the queens of Pepy I that the cases of food offerings of real size, some in calcite, appear for the first time in a royal equipment"--Page [4] of cover.
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viii, 333 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-252) :
9782724707267