Tairkap und Pestjenfi : zwei Bestattungsensembles der Spätzeit im Berliner Ägyptischen Museum (ÄM 3-6 und 50-54) / Burkhard Backes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Backes, Burkhard, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Studien zu altägyptischen Totentexten ; Bd. 22.

Studien zu altägyptischen Totentexten, 2510-4012 ; Band 22

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Coffins--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct city).

Coffins.

Coffin texts.

Inscriptions, Egyptian--Germany--Berlin.

Inscriptions, Egyptian.

Ägyptisches Museum Berlin (Germany : West).

Archaeothanatology--Egypt.

Archaeothanatology.

Mummies--Egypt.

Mummies.

Burial--Egypt.

Burial.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Egypt.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Sepulchral monuments--Egypt.

Sepulchral monuments.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Egypt--Antiquities--Catalogs.

Egypt.

Coffins--Egypt.

Physical Description:

xii, 463 pages, 71 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.

Other Title:

Zwei Bestattungsensembles der Spätzeit im Berliner Ägyptischen Museum (ÄM 3-6 und 50-54)

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.

Summary:

The two coffin ensembles of the Tairkap and the Pestjenfi came to Berlin 200 years ago, but were never fully edited. Together they offer an instructive insight into the possibilities available to the producers of coffins and their decoration in Thebes in the 7th century BC. The basis of the publication now presented is a specially created, comprehensive photographic documentation of the four surviving coffins and the two canopic chests, supplemented by the available images of the lost outer coffin of the Pestjenfi. All images and inscriptions are described in detail or fully translated and compared with variants on other coffins from the same era. In particular, the text program of the Tairkap coffins proves to be innovative in several respects, while the Pestjenfi coffins show a discrepancy between their remarkable craftsmanship and the inscriptions, which are not always immediately understandable. The detailed breakdown of the name and title spellings as well as extensive documentation of the individual character forms facilitate the use of these objects, which are highly interesting in many respects, for prosopographic and palaographic questions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-463) and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783447120838

3447120835

OCLC:

1422311217