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Auteur(s) : Willems, Harco
Titre(s) : Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture [Texte imprimé] : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries / by Harco Willems
Traduction de : Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie
Publication : Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-389 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color),
plans ; 25 cm
Collection : Culture and history of the ancient Near East, ISSN 1566-2055 ; vol. 73
Lien à la collection : Culture and history of the ancient Near East
Comprend : Nomarchal culture : political, administrative, social, and religious aspects ; A
Middle Kingdom nomarchal cemetery : Dayr al-Barsha ; The coffin texts and democracy
; Conclusion: The rise and fall of the coffin texts ; Concordance to the sigla of
coffin texts manuscripts and Middle Kingdom coffins.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-350) and index
"Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture, a thoroughly
reworked translation of Les textes des sarcophages et la démocratie published in 2008,
challenges the widespread idea that the 'royal' Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom after
a process of 'democratisation' became, in the Middle Kingdom, accessible even to the
average Egyptian in the form of the Coffin Texts. Rather they remained an element
of elite funerary culture, and particularly so in the Upper Egyptian nomes. The author
traces the emergence here of the so-called 'nomarchs' and their survival in the Middle
Kingdom. The site of Dayr al-Barshā, currently under excavation, shows how nomarch
cemeteries could even develop into large-scale processional landscapes intended for
the cult of the local ruler. This book also provides an updated list of the hundreds
of (mostly unpublished) Middle Kingdom coffins and proposes a new reference system
for these"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Textes des sarcophages
Rites et cérémonies funéraires égyptiens
Tombes -- Société -- Égypte -- Antiquité
Élite (sciences sociales) -- Égypte -- Antiquité
Égypte -- ca. 2055-ca. 1650 av. J.-C. (Moyen Empire)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004274983 (hardback) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 9004274987 (hardback) (acid-free
paper). - ISBN 9789004274990 (erroné) (e-book). - ISBN 9004274995 (erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44301953v
Notice n° :
FRBNF44301953
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