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The Saqqara necropolis through the New Kingdom : biography of an ancient Egyptian cultural landscape / by Nico Staring.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection DT73.S3 S73 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staring, Nico, author.
- Series:
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; 1566-2055 volume 131.
- Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; volume 131
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)--Antiquities.
- Ṣaqqārah (Egypt).
- Memphis (Extinct city).
- Tombs--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.
- Tombs.
- Tombs--Egypt--Memphis (Extinct city).
- Cultural landscapes--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Cultural landscapes--Egypt--Memphis (Extinct city).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Memphis (Extinct city).
- Egypt--History--New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C.
- Egypt.
- Antiquities.
- Egypt--Memphis (Extinct city).
- Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 533 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Summary:
- "This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539-1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site's development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs' spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of figures, plates and tables
- Abbreviations
- A quiet and desolate plateau, once bustling with life
- Exploring landscape: layerdness, temporality, authorship
- The Memphite Necropolis at Saqqara in the New Kingdom
- The Unas South cemetery
- The Teti Pyramid cemetery and the cliff of Ankhtawy
- The dead and the living in the Memphite cultural landscape
- Saqqara through the New Kingdom: synthesis and final thoughts
- Catalogue of New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Staring, Nico. Saqqara necropolis through the New Kingdom
- ISBN:
- 9789004467132
- 9004467130
- OCLC:
- 1346148124
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