The sarcophagus of the High Priest of Amun, Menkheperre, from the coptic monastery of Apa Moses at Abydos
During excavations at Abydos between 2009 and 2011, a fragment of a red granite sarcophagus inscribed with the Book of Gates was discovered within a Coptic monastery just to the south of the New Kingdom temple of Seti I. Archaeological and textual evidence potentially identify the monastery as that...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Harrassowitz
[2017]
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Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo
Year: 2016, Volume: 72, Pages: 11-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Culture
/ Grave
/ Symbolics
/ Copts
/ Monastery
/ History 1292 BC-1186 BC
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| IxTheo Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion |
| Summary: | During excavations at Abydos between 2009 and 2011, a fragment of a red granite sarcophagus inscribed with the Book of Gates was discovered within a Coptic monastery just to the south of the New Kingdom temple of Seti I. Archaeological and textual evidence potentially identify the monastery as that of Apa Moses. Reused as a door threshold, the sarcophagus fragment bears the cartouche of the High Priest of Amun, Menkheperre, reinscribed over the name of the object’s original owner. Stylistic and textual features date the original creation of this sarcophagus to the 19th dynasty. This paper examines the sarcophagus fragment, its archaeological context, and the texts carved upon it, in order to offer one interpretation of its complicated history, and the ways in which it might fit into our understanding of Third Intermediate Period history |
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| ISSN: | 0342-1279 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo
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