The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
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Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a vital role in the daily life of the living and marked their owner's taste and status. Coffin history is an ongoing process and does not end with the ancient burial. The coffins that were discovered and shipped to museums have become part of the National heritages. The Vatican Coffin Project is the first international research project to study the entire use-life of Egyptian coffins from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This edited volume presents the first Leiden results of the project focusing on the lavishly decorated coffins of the Priests of Amun that are currently in the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. Six chapters, written by international specialists, present the history of the Priests of Amun, the production of their coffins and use-life of the coffins from Ancient Egypt until modern times. The book appeals to the general public interested in Egyptian culture, heritage studies, and restoration research, and will also be a stimulating read for both students and academics.

Contents

Chapter 1: The Vatican Coffin Project
Alessia Amenta, Christian Greco, Ulderico Santamaria, and Lara Weiss

Chapter 2: The 21st Dynasty: The theocracy of Amun, and the position of the Theban priestly families.
Gerard P. F. Broekman

Chapter 3: The Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Thebes: The history of the find
Rogério Sousa

Chapter 4: The coffins in Leiden
4.1. The Letters of Willem Pleyte
Liliane Mann
4.2 Lot XI in Leiden
Christian Greco and Lara Weiss

Chapter 5: Painting techniques of the Leiden coffins
Elsbeth Geldhof

Chapter 6: Coffin Reuse in Dynasty 21: A Case Study of the Coffins in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Kathlyn M. Cooney
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Autorenporträt
Dr. Lara Weiss is curator of the Egyptian collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands, where she played a major role in the reorganization of the permanent display of the collection. She studied Egyptology and Theology in Berlin and Leiden and received her doctoral degree in Göttingen in 2012.

From 2012 Lara Weiss has been involved as a teacher and a researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project 'Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning "cults" and "polis religion", hosted by the University of Erfurt (Germany) before she became curator in Leiden in 2014 and joined the Vatican Coffin Project. She is especially interested in the daily life of the ancient Egyptians and their mode of religious experience and recently received a large grant to study the Cultural Geography of Saqqara, the cemetery of the city of Memphis where the RMO has been excavating the past 40 years (since 2015 in cooperation with the Museo Egizio in Turin).

In 2017 Lara Weis

s was appointed field director of the Leiden-Turin mission.