Steven Snape

Ancient Egyptian Tombs (eBook, ePUB)

The Culture of Life and Death

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife. * Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary practices * Draws on a range of data, including architecture, artifacts and texts * Discusses tombs within the context of everyday life in Ancient Egypt * Stresses the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the self

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444393736
• Artikelnr.: 38309292

Autorenporträt

STEVEN SNAPE is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, Director of Archaeological Collections in Liverpool University's Garstang Museum of Archaeology and Director of its excavations at the Ramesside fortress-town of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. His books include Six Archaeological Sites in Sharqiyeh Province (1986), A Temple of Domitian at El-Ashmunein (1990), Egyptian Temples (1996) and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham I: The Temple and Chapels (with P. Wilson, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
1 Nameless Lives at Tarkhan and Saqqara 7
Early Tombs and the Ka
2 Pits, Palaces and Pyramids 24
Royal Cemeteries of the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom
3 Non-Royal Cemeteries of Dynasty 4 35
4 Unas, Teti and Their Courts 51
The Late Old Kingdom at Saqqara
5 The Tombs of Qar and Idu 68
Families and Funerals in the Late Old Kingdom
6 A Growing Independence 86
Court and Regional Cemeteries in the Late Old Kingdom
7 Ankhtify 105
A Time of Change
8 Osiris, Lord of Abydos 117
9 'Lords of Life' 136
Coffins
10 Strangers and Brothers 148
The Middle Kingdom in Middle Egypt
11 North and South 166
Middle Kingdom Tombs at the Royal Residence
12 Ineni, Senenmut and User-Amun 176
New Tombs for Old
13 Rekhmire and the Tomb of the Well-Known Soldier 190
Foreigners and Funerals in the Age of Empire
14 Huya and Horemheb 207
Amarna and After
15 Samut and the Ramesside Private Tomb 223
16 Sennedjem 233
Building and Buying at Deir el-Medina
17 Petosiris 245
A Dying Tradition
References 260
Further Reading 276
Index 281