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✠ A E ✠ ✠ ncient gyptian B L A C K W E L L A N C I E N T R E L I G I O N S A ombs n Steven Snape is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Ancient Egyptian tombs were not designed as Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, c places where the dead were buried and S T E V E N S N A P E Director of Archaeological Collections in i forgotten. They were the places where e Liverpool University’s Garstang Museum of carefully preserved bodies were securely n Archaeology and Director of its excavations stored for eternity. The best of them were “In this instantly engaging book, Snape goes far beyond a simple t at the Ramesside fortress-town of Zawiyet architecturally spectacular, richly decorated presentation of funerary beliefs and practices through time. He takes us Umm el-Rakham. His books include Six E with carved and painted reliefs, and replete on a journey through tombs long cold and disused, and populates them Archaeological Sites in Sharqiyeh Province again with vibrant people. This is an excellent introduction to the ancient g with a range of specialized grave goods and (1986), A Temple of Domitian at El- statues. Their prominent visibility was a Egyptians through their mortuary remains. I would enthusiastically y Ashmunein (1990), Egyptian Temples (1996) reminder of the ongoing relationship between recommend [this book] to general readers and students of any age or p and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham I: The Temple experience.” t the dead and the living. and Chapels(with P. Wilson, 2007). Kasia Szpakowska, Swansea University i a These collections of extraordinary physical n evidence, unique in the ancient world, tell us a great deal about how the Egyptians regarded the afterlife. Using all of the relevant data o available, including architecture, artefacts and m texts, this book explores the development of b the tomb as a cultural phenomenon in s Ancient Egypt. The author discusses tombs within the context of everyday life, particularly ongoing social and economic relationships, while stressing the importance of the tomb as an eternal expression of the A self. ncient E gyptian ombs S N A P T H E C U L T U R E O F L I F E A N D D E A T H E ISBN 978-1-4051-2089-0 S T E V E N S N A P E 9 0 0 0 0 Jacket image: Ostracon 5886. Reproduced courtesy of The Manchester Museum, UK. 9 781405 120890 Jacket design by Workhaus www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell Ancient Egyptian Tombs BlackwellAncientReligions Ancientreligiouspracticeandbeliefareatoncefascinatingandalienfor twenty-firstcenturyreaders. TherewasnoBible,nocreed,nofixedsetof beliefs.Rather,ancientreligionwascharacterizedbyextraordinarydiver- sityinbeliefandritual. Thisdistancemeansthatmodernreadersneedaguidetoancientreligious experience.Writtenbyexperts,thebooksinthisseriesprovideaccessible introductionstothiscentralaspectoftheancientworld. Published AncientGreekDivination SarahIlesJohnston MagicintheAncientGreekWorld DerekCollins ReligionintheRomanEmpire JamesB.Rives AncientGreekReligion,SecondEdition JonD.Mikalson AncientEgyptianTombs:TheCultureofLifeandDeath StevenSnape Forthcoming ReligionoftheRomanRepublic LoraHolland Ancient Egyptian Tombs The Culture of Life and Death Steven Snape Thiseditionfirstpublished2011 (cid:1)2011StevenSnape BlackwellPublishingwasacquiredbyJohnWiley&SonsinFebruary2007. Blackwell’spublishingprogramhasbeenmergedwithWiley’sglobalScientific, Technical,andMedicalbusinesstoformWiley-Blackwell. 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Setin9.75/12.5ptUtopiabyThomsonDigital PrintedinMalaysia 01 2011 For Philippa and Jack Contents ListofFigures ix Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 1 NamelessLivesatTarkhanandSaqqara 7 EarlyTombsandtheKa 2 Pits,PalacesandPyramids 24 RoyalCemeteriesoftheEarlyDynasticPeriod andOldKingdom 3 Non-RoyalCemeteriesofDynasty4 35 4 Unas,TetiandTheirCourts 51 TheLateOldKingdomatSaqqara 5 TheTombsofQarandIdu 68 FamiliesandFuneralsintheLateOldKingdom 6 AGrowingIndependence 86 CourtandRegionalCemeteriesintheLateOldKingdom 7 Ankhtify 105 ATimeofChange 8 Osiris,LordofAbydos 117 viii Contents 9 ‘LordsofLife’ 136 Coffins 10 StrangersandBrothers 148 TheMiddleKingdominMiddleEgypt 11 NorthandSouth 166 MiddleKingdomTombsattheRoyalResidence 12 Ineni,SenenmutandUser-Amun 176 NewTombsforOld 13 RekhmireandtheTomboftheWell-KnownSoldier 190 ForeignersandFuneralsintheAgeofEmpire 14 HuyaandHoremheb 207 AmarnaandAfter 15 SamutandtheRamessidePrivateTomb 223 16 Sennedjem 233 BuildingandBuyingatDeirel-Medina 17 Petosiris 245 ADyingTradition References 260 FurtherReading 276 Index 281
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