Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / / Harco Willems
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| Autore: |
Willems Harco
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| Titolo: |
Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / / Harco Willems
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 893/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Egypt |
| Cemeteries - Egypt - History - To 1500 | |
| Tombs - Social aspects - Egypt - History - To 1500 | |
| Elite (Social sciences) - Egypt - History - To 1500 | |
| Democratization - Egypt - History - To 1500 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Egypt Antiquities |
| Egypt History Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C | |
| Egypt Religious life and customs | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture |
| ISBN: | 90-04-27499-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464036603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; ; Volume 73.