The tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara / by Maarten J. Raven ; with the collaboration of Barbara G. Aston ... [and others] ; with photographs by Peter Jan Bomhof and Elisabeth van Dorp ; and a plan by Kenneth J. Frazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raven, Maarten J.

Contributor:

Aston, Barbara G.

Bomhof, P. J.

Dorp, Elisabeth van

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden.

Egypt Exploration Society

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Excavation memoir ; 74.

Seventy-fourth excavation memoir

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paser.

Raʻia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)--Antiquities.

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.

Tombs--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.

Tombs.

Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.

Raʻia--Tomb.

Paser--Tomb.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 171 pages, 160 plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : National Museum of Antiquities Leiden ; London : Egypt Exploration Society, 2005.

Summary:

Tomb of the official Pay, at Saqqara, was originally constructed in the reign of Tutankhamun and then adapted by his son and successor Raia. It was used for the family's burials until the reign of Ramesses II, and then plundered soon after the final interment. In the Saite and Persian Periods, the tomb was reused for lower-status burials. First discovered in the nineteenth century, the tomb was excavated and recorded by the joint EES/National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden expedition between 1994 and 1998. This book, the result of international collaboration by many scholars, provides a full and detailed publication of the tomb's architecture, its relief decoration and the excavated objects.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages [xvi]-xix) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0856981648

9780856981647

OCLC:

65202231