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Hundred-Gated Thebes : Acts of a Symposium on Thebes and the Theban Area in the Graeco-Roman Period /
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The choachytes (or morticians) of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes provided a rich documentation linking the city of the living on one side of the Nile with the city of the dead on the other. The family archives of these choachytes deal to a large part with their professional role in serving the dead entrusted to their care, but they are also virtually our only source of information about the city of Thebes, whose physical remains were ruthlessly obliterated in the nineteenth century. This material constitute one end of a chain which links the temple statues of Amun's servants and descriptions of their houses on the one hand with their tombs and their tomb inventories on the other, allowing us to identify individual choachytes from their papers. The papyrological finds can thus provide an exact dating for objects that might otherwise be only dated to within several centuries, while the objects themselves and the tomb architecture provide a factual dimension to historical and legal documents which might otherwise remain flat and arid. It was in order to draw attention to the richness of all the constituent parts of this documentation that a number of scholars were invited to present their views on Graeco-Roman Thebes at a colloqium held from 9 to 11 September 1992 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The survey papers and communications presented at this colloqium are published here.
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1 online resource :
9789004427815
9789004103849
The tomb of the priests of Amun : burial assemblages in the Egyptian Museum of Florence /
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The Tomb of the Priests of Amun, also known as Bab el-Gasus, was uncovered in 1891 at Deir el-Bahari (Thebes). The site proved to be the largest undisturbed tomb ever found in Egypt, as there were found the intact burials of 153 individuals that lived under the 21st Dynasty (ca. 1069-945 BC). This outstanding find was subsequently divided in lots of antiquities and dispersed by 17 nations. This volume presents the first comprehensive publication of the Italian Lot, kept in the Egyptian Museum of Florence. Besides the formal description of the objects, a critical assessment of the collection is provided regarding the reconstruction of the burial assemblages, the reuse of the burial equipment and the art historical examination of coffin decoration.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004386501
Hungarian excavations in the Theban necropolis : a celebration of 102 years of fieldwork in Egypt : catalogue for the temporary exhibition in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, November 6...
: 178 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178). : 9789632841038
Dra' Abu el-Naga II : hieratische Ostraka und Namensteine aus Dra' Abu el-Naga /
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Inscriptions from the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga in western Thebes from the early 18th Dynasty- the late 20th Dynasty.
Die Ostraka aus der Nekropole von Dra' Abu el-Naga in Theben-West stammen in der überwiegenden Mehrzahl aus dem Doppelgrabkomplex K93.11 und K93.12, der in der frühen 18. Dynastie angelegt und in der späten 20. Dynastie unter den Hohenpriestern Ramsesnacht und dessen Sohn Amenophis neu gestaltet wurde. Von nur wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen liegt mit diesen Texten ein so noch kaum beobachteter Sonderfall vor: Es sind Keramikostraka oder oft recht massive Kalksteinbrocken mit einem oder mehreren Personennamen als einzigem Inhalt.0In Dra? Abu el-Naga II werden die hieratischen Ostraka und Namensteine erstmals vorgelegt. Sie stammen alle aus dem Bereich der Anlage K93.12, also der des Hohenpriesters Amenophis, und waren zum überwiegenden Teil in das Mauerwerk von dessen heute zerstörter Lehmziegel-Pyramide eingebracht worden. Vermutlich sind es die Namen von Personen, die an der Neugestaltung der Anlage beteiligt waren, also von dort beschäftigten Arbeitern. Diese beinahe 100 Namen, darunter etwa 70 unterschiedliche, ergeben eine veritable Liste der am Bau der Pyramide und der Grabanlage Beteiligten. Die Streufunde aus den übrigen Arealen haben meist ebenfalls einen nichtliterarischen Inhalt. Während der früheste Text den Namen des Königs Nubcheperre-Intef nennt und damit aus der Zeit der späten 17. Dynastie stammt, enthält der späteste Beleg den Namen des Hohenpriesters Mencheperre aus der 21. Dynastie.
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152 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 36 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9783447110594
3447110597