Old Kingdom, New Perspectives

Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750-2150 BC

Edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick

Imprint: Oxbow Books

336 Pages, 8.3 x 11.7 in, B/w and color

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Description
Contents
Authors
Praise

1. A new Old Kingdom rock-cut tomb from Abusir and its Abusir-Saqqara context (Miroslav Bárta)
2. Mastaba core structure: New data from fourth dynasty elite tombs at Abu Rawash (Michel Baud and Eric Guerrier)
3. The art of Egyptian hieroglyphs as seen by the Akhmim painters V.G. Callender)
4. Two cemeteries for one provincial capital? Deir al Bersha and al-Sheikh Said in the fifteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the Old Kingdom (Marleen De Meyer)
5. Blocks from the Unis causeway recorded in Cerný’s notebooks at the Griffith Institute, Oxford (Andrés Diego Espinel)
6. A spatial metaphor for chronology in the secondary cemeteries at Giza (May Farouk)
7. The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafra at Giza (Laurel Flentye)
8. Reading the Menkaure Triads: Part II (Multi-directionality) (Florence Dunn Friedman)
9. Recent work in the tomb of Nebkauhor at Saqqara (Abdou El-Kerety)
10. The Death of the Democratisation of the Afterlife (Harold M. Hays)
11. A new specific tomb type in Abusir? (Jaromír Krejcí)
12. An afterworld for Netjerykhet (Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz)
13. Re-examining the Khentkawes Town (Mark Lehner, Daniel Jones, Lisa Yeomans, Hanan Mahmoud and Katarzyna Olchowska)
14. Searching for an undistorted template (digital epigraphy in action) (Jolana Malatkova)
15. The ‘Reserve Heads’: some remarks on their function and meaning (Massimiliano Nuzzolo)
16. The concept of xprr in Old Kingdom religious texts (Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska)
17. And where are the viscera…? Reassessing the function of Old Kingdom canopic recesses and pits (Teodozja I. Rzeuska)
18. Twisted Kilts: Variations in Aspective Representation in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels (Ann Macy Roth)
19. Fixed rules or personal choice? On the composition and arrangement of daily life scenes in Old Kingdom elite tombs (Nico Staring)
20. Village, town and barracks: a fourth dynasty settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza (Ana Tavares)
21. An Old Kingdom bakery at al-Sheikh Said South: preliminary report on the pottery corpus (Stefanie Vereecken)
22. Why was the Fifth Dynasty cemetery founded at Abusir? (Miroslav Verner and Vladimír Bruna)
23. The economic connection between the royal cult in the pyramid temples and the sun temples in Abusir (Hana Vymazalová)
24. The Ancient Egypt Research Associates settlement site at Giza: The Old Kingdom ceramic distribution (Anna Wodzinska)
25. zšš wAD scenes of the Old Kingdom revisited (Alexandra Woods)