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Historical and archaeological aspects of Egyptian funerary culture : religious ideas and ritual practice in Middle Kingdom elite cemeteries /

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"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 'democratis...

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Main Author: Willems, Harco
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Subjects:
Coffin texts.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Egypt.
Cemeteries > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Tombs > Social aspects > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Elite (Social sciences) > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Democratization > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Egypt > Antiquities.
Egypt > History > Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C.
Egypt > Religious life and customs.
ISBN:9789004274983
9004274987
ISSN:1566-2055 ;
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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