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Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / Harco Willems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willems, Harco, author.
- Series:
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 73.
- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; Volume 73
- Standardized Title:
- Textes des sarcophages et la démocratie. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Egypt.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Cemeteries--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Cemeteries.
- Tombs--Social aspects--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Tombs.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Democratization--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Democratization.
- Egypt--Antiquities.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--History--Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C.
- Egypt--Religious life and customs.
- Coffin texts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture , a thoroughly reworked translation of Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie published in 2008, challenges the widespread idea that the “royal” Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom after a process of “democratisation” became, in the Middle Kingdom, accessible even to the average Egyptian in the form of the Coffin Texts. Rather they remained an element of elite funerary culture, and particularly so in the Upper Egyptian nomes. The author traces the emergence here of the so-called “nomarchs” and their survival in the Middle Kingdom. The site of Dayr al-Barshā, currently under excavation, shows how nomarch cemeteries could even develop into large-scale processional landscapes intended for the cult of the local ruler. This book also provides an updated list of the hundreds of (mostly unpublished) Middle Kingdom coffins and proposes a new reference system for these.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Nomarchal Culture: Political, Administrative, Social, and Religious Aspects
- 2 A Middle Kingdom Nomarchal Cemetery: Dayr al-Barshā
- 3 The Coffin Texts and Democracy
- Concordance to the Sigla of Coffin Texts Manuscripts and Middle Kingdom Coffins
- Bibliography
- Plates
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27499-5
- OCLC:
- 891123339
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004274990 DOI
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