Steven Snape

Ancient Egyptian Tombs

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife.

Investigates the roles of tombs in the development of funerary practices

Draws on a range of data, including architecture, artifacts and texts

Discusses tombs within the context of everyday life in Ancient Egypt

Stresses the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the self

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Ancient Religions
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9781405120890
• ISBN-10: 1405120894
• Artikelnr.: 32006225

Autorenporträt

Steven Snape is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, Director of Archaeological Collections in Liverpool University's Garstang Museum of Archaeology, and Director of its excavations at the Ramesside fortress-town of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. His books include Six Archaeological Sites in Sharqiyeh Province (1986), A Temple of Domitian at El-Ashmunein (1990), Egyptian Temples (1996), and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham I: The Temple and Chapels (with P. Wilson, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Preface. Introduction. 1. Nameless Lives at Tarkhan
and Saqqara: Early Tombs and the Ka. 2. Pits, Palaces and Pyramids: Royal
Cemeteries of the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom. 3. Non-Royal
Cemeteries of Dynasty 4. 4. Unas, Teti and their Courts: the Late Old
Kingdom at Saqqara. 5. The Tombs of Qar and Idu: Families and Funerals in
the Late Old Kingdom. 6. A Growing Independence: Court and Regional
Cemeteries in the Late Old Kingdom. 7. Ankhtify: A Time of Change. 8.
Osiris, Lord of Abydos. 9. 'Lords of Life': Coffins. 10. Strangers and
Brothers: The Middle Kingdom in Middle Egypt. 11. North and South: Middle
Kingdom Tombs at the Royal Residence. 12. Ineni, Senenmut and User-Amun:
New Tombs for Old. 13. Rekhmire and the Tomb of the Well-Known Soldier:
Foreigners and Funerals in the Age of Empire. 14. Huya and Horemheb: Amarna
and After. 15. Samut and the Ramesside Private Tomb. 16. Sennedjem:
Building and Buying at Deir el-Medina. 17. Petosiris: A Dying Tradition.
Bibliography.