Ancient Egyptian Tombs The Culture of Life and Death

by Snape, Steven

• ISBN13: 9781405120890
• ISBN10: 1405120894
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptiansrs" 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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Nameless Lives at Tarkhan and Saqqara: Early Tombs and the Ka

Pits, Palaces and Pyramids: Royal Cemeteries of the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom

Non-Royal Cemeteries of Dynasty 4

Unas, Teti and their Courts: the Late Old Kingdom at Saqqara

The Tombs of Qar and Idu: Families and Funerals in the Late Old Kingdom

A Growing Independence: Court and Regional Cemeteries in the Late Old Kingdom

Ankhtify: A Time of Change

Osiris, Lord of Abydos

'Lords of Life': Coffins

Strangers and Brothers: The Middle Kingdom in Middle Egypt

North and South: Middle Kingdom Tombs at the Royal Residence

Ineni, Senenmut and User-Amun: New Tombs for Old

Rekhmire and the Tomb of the Well-Known Soldier: Foreigners and Funerals in the Age of Empire

Huya and Horemheb: Amarna and After

Samut and the Ramesside Private Tomb

Sennedjem: Building and Buying at Deir el-Medina

Petosiris: A Dying Tradition

Bibliography

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