Ancient Egyptian Tombs: The Culture of Life and Death

Voorkant
John Wiley & Sons, 13 jun 2011 - 320 pagina's

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
 

Inhoudsopgave

Nameless Lives at Tarkhan and Saqqara
7
Pits Palaces and Pyramids
24
Unas Teti and Their Courts
51
The Tombs of Qar and Idu
68
A Growing Independence
86
Ankhtify
105
Strangers and Brothers
148
North and South
166
Rekhmire and the Tomb of the WellKnown Soldier
190
Huya and Horemheb
207
Samut and the Ramesside Private Tomb
223
Sennedjem
233
Petosiris
245
References
260
Further Reading
276
Copyright

Ineni Senenmut and UserAmun
176

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Over de auteur (2011)

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).

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