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Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries
- Title
- Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / by Harco Willems.
- Author
- Willems, Harco
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- ix, 389 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture, a thoroughly reworked translation of Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie published in 2008, challenges the widespread idea that the 'royal' Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom after a process of 'democratisation' became, in the Middle Kingdom, accessible even to the average Egyptian in the form of the Coffin Texts. Rather they remained an element of elite funerary culture, and particularly so in the Upper Egyptian nomes. The author traces the emergence here of the so-called 'nomarchs' and their survival in the Middle Kingdom. The site of Dayr al-Barshā, currently under excavation, shows how nomarch cemeteries could even develop into large-scale processional landscapes intended for the cult of the local ruler. This book also provides an updated list of the hundreds of (mostly unpublished) Middle Kingdom coffins and proposes a new reference system for these"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 73
- Uniform Title
- Textes des sarcophages et la démocratie. English
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 73.
- Alternative Title
- Textes des sarcophages et la démocratie.
- Religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries
- Subjects
- Tombs > Social aspects > Egypt > History > To 1500
- Coffin texts
- Elite (Social sciences) > Egypt > History > To 1500
- Egypt > Antiquities
- Democratization > Egypt > History > To 1500
- Egypt > Religious life and customs
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt
- Cemeteries > Egypt > History > To 1500
- Egypt > History > Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-350) and index.
- Contents
- Nomarchal culture : political, administrative, social, and religious aspects -- A Middle Kingdom nomarchal cemetery : Dayr al-Barsha -- The coffin texts and democracy -- Concordance to the sigla of coffin texts manuscripts and Middle Kingdom coffins.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-7392
- ISBN
- 9789004274983 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9004274987 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9789004274990 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 9004274995 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014010878
- OCLC
- 878224612
- Author
- Willems, Harco, author.
- Title
- Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / by Harco Willems.
- Publisher
- Leiden : Brill, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 73Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 73.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-350) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-7392