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Tombs --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Mastabas
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Tombs --- Egypt --- Pyramids --- Mastabas --- Antiquities.
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Tombs --- -Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Mastabas --- Egypt
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Pyramids --- Tombs --- Mastabas --- Egypt --- Antiquities.
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Tombs --- Mastabas --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Tombs - Egypt.
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Architecture, Ancient --- Tombs --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Mastabas
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Ka (Egyptian religion) --- Tombs --- -Ka (Egyptian religion) --- Mastabas --- Tombs - Egypt.
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The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia’s, which was started in the same lavish style and then remained undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just one of the relatives of the owner, who – like Ptahemwia – seems to have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period. This publication presents the results of the recent excavations, with an introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners followed by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
Tombs --- Cemeteries --- Mastabas --- Ṣaqqārah (Egypt) --- Antiquities.
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In Society and Death in Ancient Egypt, Janet Richards considers social stratification in Middle Kingdom Egypt, taking as the point of departure the assumption that a 'middle class' arose during this period. By focusing on the entire range of mortuary behavior, rather than on elite remains, she shows how social and political processes can be reconstructed. Richards demonstrates that the roots of the middle class can be traced to the later Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period. Combining information from excavations, ancient Egyptian texts, and decorative reliefs and statuary, the book weaves together a wide variety of sources that aid us in understanding how Middle Kingdom Egyptians thought about society and death and how their practices and landscapes relating to death reveal information about the living society.
Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Tombs --- Egypt --- Civilization --- Social conditions. --- Mastabas --- Social conditions --- To 332 B.C.
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