03806nam 2200733 450 991078797240332120200903223051.090-04-27499-510.1163/9789004274990(CKB)2670000000566934(EBL)1786632(SSID)ssj0001333034(PQKBManifestationID)11994064(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333034(PQKBWorkID)11378248(PQKB)10282436(MiAaPQ)EBC1786632(nllekb)BRILL9789004274990(Au-PeEL)EBL1786632(CaPaEBR)ebr10930791(CaONFJC)MIL644060(OCoLC)891123339(PPN)184915287(EXLCZ)99267000000056693420140927h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHistorical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries /Harco WillemsLeiden, Netherlands :Brill,2014.©20141 online resource (399 p.)Culture and History of the Ancient Near East,1566-2055 ;Volume 73Description based upon print version of record.1-322-12807-3 90-04-27498-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects -- 2 A Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery: Dayr al-Barshā -- 3 The Coffin Texts and Democracy -- Concordance to the Sigla of Coffin Texts Manuscripts and Middle Kingdom Coffins -- Bibliography -- Plates -- Index.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 This book also provides an updated list of the hundreds of (mostly unpublished) Middle Kingdom coffins and proposes a new reference system for these.Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;Volume 73.Funeral rites and ceremonies, AncientEgyptCemeteriesEgyptHistoryTo 1500TombsSocial aspectsEgyptHistoryTo 1500Elite (Social sciences)EgyptHistoryTo 1500DemocratizationEgyptHistoryTo 1500EgyptAntiquitiesEgyptHistoryMiddle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.CEgyptReligious life and customsFuneral rites and ceremonies, AncientCemeteriesHistoryTombsSocial aspectsHistoryElite (Social sciences)HistoryDemocratizationHistory893/.1Willems Harco169425MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787972403321Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture3813338UNINA