Abusir XXVI : the funerary domains in the pyramid complex of Sahura : an aspect of the economy in the late third millennium BCE / Mohamed Ismail Khaled.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khaled, Mohamed Ismail, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pyramids--Egypt.

Pyramids.

Grave goods--Egypt.

Grave goods.

Egypt--Antiquities.

Egypt.

Egypt--History--Old Kingdom, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.

Egypt--Economic conditions--To 332 B.C.

Grave goods--Egypt--Catalogs.

Antiquities.

Economic history.

Tombs.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Egypt--Jīzah--Abu Sir Site.

Genre:

Catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm + 4 sheets of plates (84 x 119 cm, folded to 30 x 21 cm)

Place of Publication:

Prague : Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2020.

Summary:

The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the book represents catalogue of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by Egyptian team at Sahura's causeway and of related pehou regions. The introductory chapters provide the reader with the context and the overview of other known contemporary domains of this kind. The noc-clusing chapters then discuss the nature and location of pehou regions as well as economic significance of royal domains with regards to the new finds from Sahura's causeway.

Contents:

Abusir XXVI

Plate I. The newly discovered procession of domains from Sahura's causeway

Plate II. Block SC/north/2004/10

Plate III. Block SC/north/2004/9a, b

Plate IV. Block SC/north/2003/8 and 7.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9788073089986

807308998X

OCLC:

1240412602

Publisher Number:

99995179172