Dating the tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom /

Dating the tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom / / Joyce Swinton.

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The decorated tombs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom offer detailed knowledge of a society that in all probability was the first nation state in history. The system of dating these monuments presented here builds on the work of previous scholars. In this volume the author explains how the dating method w...

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Superior document:Archaeopress archaeology ; 2
VerfasserIn:
Swinton, Joyce,
Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Archaeopress archaeology ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (206 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledhments
  • Contents page
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 The need to date private tombs
  • 1.2 The proposed dating system
  • 1.3 Defining the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period
  • 1.3 Defining the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period
  • Stages in the development of the dating system
  • 1.6 The dating of provincial tombs
  • Prosopography for Tomb Groups A and B
  • 2.1 Data from Giza
  • 2.2 Data from Saqqara
  • 2.3 Data from tombs of Upper Egypt
  • 2.4 The use of personal relationships
  • 2.5 Dating for the prosopography
  • 2.6 Prosopography (Groups A and B)
  • 2.7 Groups A and B officials
  • Establishing Dating Criteria
  • 3.1 Dress of the male tomb owner
  • 3.2 Adornment of the tomb owner
  • 3.3 The 'animal skin' garment
  • 3.4 Tomb owner at the offering table
  • 3.5 Bread and reeds on offering table
  • 3.6 Lists and offerings associated with table
  • 3.7 Priestly figures performing rites
  • 3.8 The offering table
  • 3.9 The female figure
  • 3.10 The banquet scene
  • 3.11 Stools and chairs
  • 3.12 Marsh scenes
  • 3.13 Figures and desriptions of Criteria 1-104
  • 3.14 Tables to establish dating criteria
  • Testing the Criteria
  • 4.1 Giza tombs
  • 4.2 Saqqara tombs
  • 4.3 Provincial tombs
  • 4.4 Testing the Criteria
  • CONCLUDING COMMENTS
  • 5.1 The validity of the criteria
  • 5.2 Reliability of the system
  • 5.3 Question of archaizing tombs
  • 5.4 Need for more criteria
  • 5.5 A time lag between cemeteries?
  • Bibliography
  • Back cover.

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