Pharoah'S Gateway To Eternity

by UPHILL

• ISBN13: 9780710306272
• ISBN10: 071030627X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Father of history, father of lies: These descriptions show the conflicting viewpoints expressed by later scholars regarding the wonders Herodotus described in his travels. Among the buildings, the Egyptian Labyrinth was at the top of his list, and this has given rise to much speculation about its form, size, and purpose over the last two centuries. Pharoah's Gateway to Eternity searches for the answers to these problems, using anew approach in examining the basic textual and archaeological evidence available today. The result identifies the Labyrinth with the pyramidcomplex of the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat III more firmly, and to reject the use of any architectural evidence other than that belonging to 1800 B.C. in the reconstruction of the temples and tombs of this great complex of buildings. The author uses unpublished material from Petrie's notebooks and letters forming an account of his excavations, as well as contemporary Middle Kingdom texts and architectural parallels.

Author Biography

Eric Uphill is a lecture in Egyptian Archaeology at Birkbeck College, Faculty for Continuing Education.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Plates	xi
List of Maps, Plans, Diagrams and Reconstructions	xiii
Introduction: Recording the Labyrinth Site and Earlier Comments	1	(9)
Part I
Methodology used for the Reconstruction	10	(1)
The Site: Archaeological Description and Excavators' Reports	11	(31)
Synchronism of Heights given by Lepsius and Petrie	21	(1)
Petrie Journal Extracts	21	(3)
Layout for Inventory Items	24	(1)
Inventory of Published Architectural Evidence
Hawara	25	(14)
Arsinoe	39	(1)
Kiman-Fares	39	(2)
Miscellaneous	41	(1)
Part II
Analysis of the Archaeological and Architectural Material	42	(4)
Hieroglyphic Textual References to Hawara	46	(36)
Part III
Twelfth Dynasty Pyramid Complexes
Amenemhat I	47	(1)
Senusret I	48	(2)
Amenemhat II	50	(1)
Senusret II	51	(3)
Senusret III	54	(3)
Amenemhat III	57	(3)
Comparative Sizes of Twelfth Dynasty Complexes	60	(1)
A Restoration Scheme for the Amenemhat III Hawara Pyramid Complex
Quay Platform and Dock	61	(1)
The Valley Temple	62	(1)
The Platforms	63	(2)
The Causeway	65	(1)
The Queens' Pyramids	65	(2)
The Pyramid Enclosures	67	(1)
The Upper Funerary Temple	68	(3)
The Pyramid	71	(2)
The North Chapel	73	(1)
Other Possible Royal Buildings	74	(1)
The Great Mastaba Field	75	(4)
Smaller Mastaba Fields	79	(1)
The Mystery of the Burial of the Princess Neferuptah	79	(3)
Part IV
The Accounts of Herodotus and Other Classical Writers: Suggestions and Discussion	82	(10)
Conspectus of Classical Accounts of the Labyrinth Features	83	(1)
Discussion	84	(8)
Appendix I: A Possible Reason for the Abandonment of the Hawara Complex	92	(1)
Appendix II: Note on Claude Obsomer's Study	93	(3)
Abbreviations	96	(1)
Bibliography	97	(4)
Index	101