Research Catalog

Title

The Tomb of Meryneith at Saqqara / Maarten J. Raven and René van Walsem ; with contributions by Willem F.M. Beex, Amanda Dunsmore and Ladislava Horáčkova ; plans by Willem F.M. Beex ; drawings by Dorothea Schulz ; and photographs by Peter Jan Bomhof and Anneke J. de Kemp.

Author

Raven, Maarten J.

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Walsem, René van
• Beex, Willem F. M.
• Dunsmore, Amanda
• Horáčková, Ladislava
• Schulz, Dorothea
• Bomhof, P. J.
• Kemp, Anneke de

Description

348 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 28 cm.

Summary

"The present report includes a full description of ... wall scenes, as well as chapters on the career of the tomb-owner, on the double statue of Meryneith and his wife found in one of the west chapels, and on the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the course of the excavations."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Palma Egyptology papers on archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities ; 10

Uniform Title

• Papers on archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities ; 10.
• Papers on archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. Egyptology.

Subjects

• Meryneith > Tomb
• Ṣaqqārah (Egypt) > Antiquities
• Tombs > Egypt > Ṣaqqārah
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Ṣaqqārah

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-22) and indexes.

Contents

The site and its history -- The family and career of Meryneith and Hatiay -- The architecture -- The reliefs, paintings, and inscriptions -- The double statue of Meryre and Anuy -- Objects -- Pottery -- Human skeletal remains -- 'Pragmatics' of the new kingdom Necropolis.

ISBN

• 9782503548760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 2503548768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99961222337

OCLC

• 883902773
• ocn883902773
• SCSB-5781884

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries