King Seneb-Kay's tomb and the necropolis of a lost dynasty at Abydos
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This volume is the publication and analysis of the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE), and a cemetery of associated tombs at Abydos, all attributable to a group of kings of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. The tomb of Seneb-Kay has provided the first known king's tomb of pharaonic Egypt that included decorated imagery in the burial chamber. That evidence, discussed in detail in the volume, allows us to identify this previously unknown ruler along with a group of seven similar tombs that can be attributed to an Upper Egyptian Dynasty that survived for approximately half a century during a period of pronounced territorial fragmentation in the Nile Valley. The book examines the architecture and artifacts associated with these tombs, as well as presents an osteological analysis of the bodies of Seneb-Kay and the other anonymous individuals buried at South Abydos. Seneb-Kay's skeletonized mummy was recovered inside his tomb and provides a rare opportunity to examine the body of a king of this era. He is the earliest substantially preserved body of an Egyptian king to survive in the archaeological record, and the first known Egyptian pharaoh whose skeletal remains show that he died in battle. The analysis of his death in a military encounter, along with insights from the other skeletal remains indicates a line of kings whose rise to power was associated with their social background as members of the military elite. The book examines the wider implications of these bodies in terms of the pronounced militarization of society in the Second Intermediate Period. Seneb-Kay's tomb has also provided extensive evidence through its use of reused blocks bearing decoration, of earlier elite and royal monuments at Abydos. The combination of evidence provides a new archaeological and historical window into the political situation that defined Egypt's Second Intermediate Period
The royal tombs of the first dynasty, 1900-1901 /
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Part II has title : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties.
"The inscriptions. By F. L. Griffith": pt. I, pages 34-35; pt. II, pages 48-54.
"Publications referring to the royal tombs": pt. I, page 2. :
2 volumes in 3 : fronts (1 color) plates (part color) maps, plans (part folded) ; 32 cm.
Shunet el-Zebib Documentation and Conservation
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The funerary monument of King Khasekhemwy in Abydos is also known as the Shunet el-Zebib. Little is known about King Khasekhemwy, the last king of the Second Dynasty, but his reign ended in 2686 BC, making Shunet el-Zebib among the oldest surviving mud-brick structures in the world and the best example of Egypt’s earliest tradition of royal mortuary building. Funding from the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) between 1999 and 2006 resulted in documentation and conservation of approximately 50% of the 200-meter perimeter using newly made mud bricks of the same size and originally sourced materials to re-establish structural integrity.
Follow-up funding provided under a subsequent USAID grant in 2010 enabled team members to continue with the stabilization and conservation of the enclosure, parts of which still risked collapse. The precarious situation at the Shunet el-Zebib was evidenced by its inclusion in the World Monuments Fund’s 2008 Watch List of the World’s 100 Most Endangered Sites.
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Conservation of the monument was originally funded through the American Research Center in Egypt's Egyptian Antiquities Project (ARCE-EAP) under United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Agreement No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 (1999-2006) and subsequently funded through ARCE's Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project (ARCE-EAC) under USAID Agreement No. 263-A-00-04-00018-00 (2010-2012).
The temple of Ramesses I at Abydos /
: "A continuation of the account of sculptures from Abydos which was published in 1921 under the title Bas-reliefs from the temple of Rameses I at Abydos, issued as Papers, volume I, part I." : 20 p., 2 l. : illus. (incl. plans) plates (part fold.) ; 32 cm.
The temple of Ramesses I at Abydos /
: "A continuation of the account of sculptures from Abydos which was published in 1921 under the title Bas-reliefs from the temple of Rameses I at Abydos, issued as Papers, volume I, part I." : 20 pages, 2 leaves : illustrations, (include plans), plates (part folded) ; 26 cm.
Die Götter von Abydos : Studien zum ägypt. Synkretismus ; [diese Arb. ist im Sonderforschungsbereich 13, Orientalistik mit bes. Berücks. d. Religions- u. Kulturgeschichte d. Vorder...
: viii, 196 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Bibliography : page 189. : 3447015063