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Egypt --- Egypte --- History --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Histoire --- Antiquités --- Civilisation --- Antiquités

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During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.C.E.), ancient Egyptian women of high standing were interred with lavish ornamentation and carefully gathered possessions. Buried near the pyramids of kings, women with royal connections or great wealth and status were surrounded by fine pottery and vessels for sacred oils, bedecked with gold and precious stones, and honored with royal insignia and marks of Osiris. Their funerary possessions include jewelry imported from other ancient lands and gold-handled daggers and claspless jewelry made only to be worn in the tomb. Extensively illustrated with archival images and the author's own drawings, Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom describes and compares the opulent tombs of eminent and royal women. In addition to the ornaments, many of which are considered masterpieces of Middle Kingdom craft, Egyptologist Wolfram Grajetzki examines the numerous grave goods, artifacts of daily life, and markers of social status that were also placed in tombs, presenting a more complete picture of funerary customs in this period. By considering celebrated examples of female burials together for the first time, Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom sheds new light on the role and status of women in the royal court and explores how the gendered identity of those women was preserved in the grave.

Egyptians --- Sépulture --- Egyptiens --- Funeral customs and rites --- Funeral customs and rites. --- Burial --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Tombs --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Mastabas --- Ethnology --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Grave digging --- History --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Antiquities --- Tombeaux --- Sépulture --- Femmes --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Rites and ceremonies --- Histoire --- Rites et cérémonies --- Egypte --- Civilisation --- Antiquités --- Tombs - Egypt --- Burial - Egypt --- Women - Egypt - History - To 500 --- Egyptians - Funeral customs and rites --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt --- Egypt - Civilization - To 332 B.C. --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Ancient Studies. --- Archaeology.

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Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Social status --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Demotic inscriptions --- Egyptian inscriptions --- Egyptian language --- Hieratic inscriptions --- Hieroglyphic inscriptions (Egyptian) --- Inscriptions, Demotic --- Inscriptions, Hieratic --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic (Egyptian) --- History --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Officials and employees. --- Politics and government --- Inscriptions, Egyptian.

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Coffins --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Inscriptions, Egyptian. --- Coffin texts. --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Demotic inscriptions --- Egyptian inscriptions --- Egyptian language --- Hieratic inscriptions --- Hieroglyphic inscriptions (Egyptian) --- Inscriptions, Demotic --- Inscriptions, Hieratic --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic (Egyptian) --- Caskets (Coffins) --- Boxes --- Burial --- Sargtexte --- Book of the dead --- Book of two ways --- Pyramid texts

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This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider population. It also covers the regions then under Egyptian control: the Southern Levant and the area of Nubia as far as the Fourth Cataract. The inclusion of foreign countries provides insights not only into the interaction between the centre of the empire and its conquered regions, but also concerning what is typically Egyptian and to what extent the conquered regions were culturally influenced. It can be shown that burials in Lower Nubia closely follow those in Egypt. In the southern Levant, by contrast, cemeteries of the period often yield numerous Egyptian objects, but burial customs in general do not follow those in Egypt.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- History --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging