Three hundred years of death: the Egyptian funerary industry in the Ptolemaic period
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Tables, Figures and Plates -- Illustration Credits -- Abbreviations -- Outline of Egyptian Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Previous Scholarship on the Subject -- 3. Scope and Organisation of the Book -- 4. Notes...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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Culture and history of the ancient Near East (volume 110)
Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Cannata, Maria, Three hundred years of death : the Egyptian funerary industry in the Ptolemaic period] (2021) (Muhs, Brian Paul)
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| Series/Journal: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East
volume 110 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004406797 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Tables, Figures and Plates -- Illustration Credits -- Abbreviations -- Outline of Egyptian Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Previous Scholarship on the Subject -- 3. Scope and Organisation of the Book -- 4. Notes on the Conventions and Abbreviations Used -- Part 1. The Organisation of the Necropolis and Its Funerary Priests -- Chapter 1. The Theban Necropolis -- 1. The Overseer of the Necropolis -- 2. The Lesonis -- 3. The Steward -- 4. Choachytes -- 5. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Choachytes -- 6. Embalmers -- 7. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Embalmers -- 8. Other Funerary Priests -- Chapter 2. The Edfu Necropolis -- 1. The Overseer of the Necropolis and the Lesonis -- 2. Choachytes and Lector-Priests -- 3. Territorial Jurisdiction of Edfu Necropolis Workers -- Chapter 3. The Memphite necropolis -- 1. The Overseer of the necropolis -- 2. God's Seal-Bearers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes -- 3. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Memphite Funerary Priests -- Chapter 4. The Hawara Necropolis -- 1. The Overseer of the God's Seal-Bearers and Embalmers -- 2. God's Seal-Bearers (and) Embalmers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes -- 3. Other Funerary Priests -- 4. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Hawara Funerary Priests -- 5. The Organisation of the Hawara Necropolis -- Chapter 5. The Necropolises in Middle Egypt -- 1. The Head of the Necropolis -- 2. Lector-Priests and Embalmers -- 3. Man of the Necropolis -- 4. Seal-Bearer Who Attends the God -- 5. God's Seal-Bearers -- 6. Necrotaphoi -- 7. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Funerary Priests in Middle Egypt -- Chapter 6. Female Funerary priests -- 1. Choachytes -- 2. Embalmers -- Chapter 7. Services, Income and Taxation of Funerary Priests. |
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| ISBN: | 9004406808 |