Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings / edited by Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wilkinson, Richard H.
• Weeks, Kent R.

Description

xvi, 627 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of the Valley of the Kings
• Valley of the Kings

Subjects

• Tombs
• Tombs > Egypt > Valley of the Kings > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Handbooks and manuals
• Valley of the Kings (Egypt) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Egypt > Valley of the Kings

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals.

Note

• Series statement from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I: Introduction. Introduction / Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks -- Part II: The natural setting. Geology of the Valley of the Kings / Judith M. Bunbury ; Toponyms of the Valley of the Kings and its approaches / Kent R. Weeks ; The hydrology of the Valley of the Kings : weather, rainfall, drainage patterns, and flood protection in antiquity / Andreas Dorn -- Part III: The development of the royal necropolis. The Egyptian concept of a royal necropolis / John H. Taylor ; Earlier royal tombs, the royal cemeteries of Thebes, and the beginnings of the Valley of the Kings / Aidan Dodson -- Part IV: Tomb construction and development. The workmen who created the royal tombs / Robert J. Demarée ; Choosing the location for a royal tomb, the workmen's techniques and tools, units of measurement, KV huts, and workplaces / Andreas Dorn ; The component parts of KV royal tombs / Kent R. Weeks ; Collisions, abandonments, alterations, tomb commencements/pits, and other features in the Valley of the Kings / Lyla Pinch-Brock --
• Part V: Royal tomb decoration. The technology of royal tomb decoration / Stephen Rickerby and Lori Wong ; Iconography, palaeography, decorative elements, distribution, and development of scenes / Heather L. McCarthy -- Part VI: Individual KV tombs. Royal tombs of the eighteenth dynasty / Catharine H. Roehrig ; Royal tombs of the nineteenth dynasty / Hartwig Altenmüller ; Royal tombs of the twentieth dynasty / Aidan Dodson ; Other tombs : queens and commoners in KV / Susanne Bickel -- Part VII: Contents of royal KV tombs. Sarcophagi / Aidan Dodson ; Canopies / Aidan Dodson ; Other tomb goods / Campbell Price -- Part VIII: Getting to the afterlife. Mortuary ritual in the Valley of the Kings / Alexandra von Lieven ; Symbolic aspects of royal tombs / Richard H. Wilkinson ; The royal funerary books : the subject matter of scenes and texts / Joshua A. Roberson --
• Part IX: Destruction, desecration, and reuse. Damnatio memoriae in the Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson ; Usurpation and reuse of royal tombs / Richard H. Wilkinson ; Intrusive burials and caches / John H. Taylor -- Part X: Human remains from the KV and their study. Early study and the unwrapping of mummies / Rosalie David ; Modern biomedical studies / Rosalie David and Ryan Metcalfe ; Recent identity and relationship studies, including x-rays and DNA / Ryan Metcalfe -- Part XI: The administration of the KV in dynastic times. The temples of millions of years at western Thebes / Martina Ullmann ; Policing and site protection, guard posts, and enclosure walls / Carola Vogel ; Tomb robberies in the Valley of the Kings / Ogden Goelet -- Part XIII: The KV from the end of the New Kingdom to the late twentieth century. Late dynastic, Greco-Roman, and Christian times: post-New Kingdom graffiti / Filip Coppens ; The history of KV exploration prior to the late twentieth century / Joyce Tyldesley -- Part XIII: The KV in the late twentieth and the twenty-first century and beyond. Remote sensing in the Valley of the Kings and its hinterlands / Sarah H. Parcak and Gregory D. Mumford ; The search for other tombs / Stephen W. Cross ; Tomb recording : epigraphy, photography, digital imaging, and 3D surveys / Adam Lowe ; Conservation and flood protection / Michael Jones ; Tourism in the Valley of the Kings / Kent R. Weeks ; The Valley of the Kings in the lives of modern Egyptians : the people of Qurna / Kees Van der Spek -- Appendix.

Call Number

JFF 16-1682

ISBN

• 0199931631
• 9780199931637

LCCN

2015509901

OCLC

951833035

Title

The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings / edited by Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016?]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wilkinson, Richard H., editor.

Weeks, Kent R., editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1682