The Tomb of Parennefer, Butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten : Theban Tomb 188 / Susan Redford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redford, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parennefer, Royal Butler of Akhenaton, King of Egypt--Tomb.

Parennefer.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

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

Tombs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten (1353-1336 BCE). The result of several years of clearance and recording by Dr. Susan Redford, director of the Akhenaten Temple Project's Theban Tomb Survey, this richly illustrated book provides a detailed description of the remaining wall scenes and texts of this historically important ancient monument. In the fourteenth century BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten attempted to institute a radical religious reform and moved his capital city to Amarna. This book publishes important evidence related to the Amarna period in ancient Egypt, specifically the plans, reliefs, and inscriptions of Theban Tomb 188, belonging to Parennefer, the tutor and butler of the king. Dr. Redford's detailed archaeological study traces the rapid evolution of ideology, iconography, and iconoclasm, as revealed in Parennefer's tomb. The decoration kept pace with the momentous changes in the king's thinking, so that, when dovetailed with the pictorial evidence from the excavations of the great Gem-pa-aten temple at Karnak, it becomes possible to chronicle these rapid changes.This definitive study of the tomb of Parennefer will appeal to archaeologists, Egyptologists, historians of religion, and art historians working on the ancient Near East.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Location and Description

Chapter 2 Architecture

Chapter 3 Decorative Program

Chapter 4 Dating and Chronology

Chapter 5 Scene Restoration

Chapter 6 Catalogue of Wall Blocks

Chapter 7 The Tomb Owner

Chapter 8 Conclusion: "The Good Name"

Plates

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646022069

1646022068

OCLC:

1380730583