Concepts in Middle Kingdom funerary culture : : proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge anniversary symposium held at Christ's College, Cambridge, 22 January 2016 / / by Rune Nyord.

Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture presents a collection of archaeological and philological papers discussing how ancient Egyptians thought, and modern scholars may think, about Egyptian funerary practices of the early 2nd millennium BCE. Targeting the concepts used by modern scholars, the...

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Superior document:Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 102
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 102.
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page / Rune Nyord
  • Preface / Rune Nyord
  • Introduction: Egyptian and Egyptological Concepts / Rune Nyord
  • Projection of Self in Middle Kingdom Tombs and Coffins / Susanne Bickel
  • The Concept of ‘Letters to the Dead’ and Egyptian Funerary Culture / Sylvie Donnat
  • How ‘Royal’ (and ‘Mythical’) Are the Coffin Texts? Reflections on the Definition and Function of Some Etic Concepts in a Middle Kingdom Funerary Text Corpus / Katja Goebs
  • How ‘Funerary’ Are the Coffin Texts? / Alexandra von Lieven
  • Burial Demography in the Late Middle Kingdom: a Social Perspective / Gianluca Miniaci
  • The Concept of ka between Egyptian and Egyptological Frameworks / Rune Nyord
  • Who Am I? An Emic Approach to the So-Called ‘Personal Texts’ in Egyptian ‘Funerary Literature’ / Harco Willems
  • Back Matter
  • Indexes / Rune Nyord.