The pyramids : between life and death : proceedings of the workshop held at Uppsala University, Uppsala, May 31st-June 1st, 2012 / edited by Irmgard Hein, Nils Billing and Erika Meyer-Dietrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hein, Irmgard, editor.

Billing, Nils, editor.

Meyer-Dietrich, Erika, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas ; 0346-6442 36.

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas, 0346-6442 ; 36

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pyramids--Egypt--Congresses.

Pyramids.

Egypt--Antiquities--Congresses.

Egypt.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, [2016]

Language Note:

1 French, 10 English contributions.

Summary:

In May 2012, a group of researchers convened in Uppsala for the workshop: "The Pyramids: Between Life and Death." The purpose was to stimulate an exchange between the different research directions dealing with the wide topic of pyramids. The meeting focused on the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. This volume contains the papers from the workshop. It is divided in two main sections; the first one contains six papers discussing classical pyramid reception, archaeological and architectural issues of the pyramids, the pyramid temple, the topic of pyramid towns and harbour, while five papers in the second part deal with texts and their location. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. Archaeological studies on the pyramids

Greeks and some Romans on the pyramids / Denis Searby

What did the court in the pyramid temple of Khafre at Giza look like? / Peter Já́nosi

'Abusir paradigm' and the beginning of the fifth dynasty / Miroslav Bárta

Foundation of the royal necropolis at Abusir / Jaromír Krejči

The stability of ancient stone monuments and their preliminary assessment : an example of the step pyriamid / Agnese Kukela and Valdis Seglins

The name and nature of the Heit el-Ghurab old kingdom site : worker's town, pyramid town, and the port hypothesis / Mark Lehner

Part II. Pyramid texts and decoration

The fifth dynasty sun temples and their relationship with the contemporary pyramids / Massimiliano Nuzzolo

La paroi Est de la chambre funéraire de la reine Béhénou / Catherine Berger-el Naggar and Mari-Noëlle Fraisse

The original corpus programme of text in the sarcophagus chamber of King Pepi I / Roman Gundacker

"It is I, your son; I am Horus" : ritual and spatial progression in the pyramid of Pepy I / Nils Billing

Sonic acting in the pyramid of Queen Neith : statements about sound in ritual texts from the time of Pepi II / Erika Meyer-Dietrich.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

University publication.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789155491697

9155491693

OCLC:

959226964

Publisher Number:

9789155491697