Author: P. NICHOLSON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789042945500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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In 1897 Jacques de Morgan published a map of the Memphite necropolis, showing for the first time a pair of catacombs for mummified dogs. No further information was given and the catacombs remained largely un-investigated until the 21st century. In 2009 the Catacombs of Anubis Project was set up by Cardiff University who worked in collaboration with the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities in an attempt to understand the larger of the two catacombs. This publication describes the work of the Catacombs of Anubis Project. It examines the way in which the catacomb was created and the likely phases of its development in the Late and Ptolemaic periods. The way in which the many thousands of animal mummies were procured is discussed in the light of modern faunal analysis and these results are combined with a new survey of the site to give a picture of the functioning of the cult at Saqqara. Finally, the way in which the monument may have been re-used in the post-pharaonic era is discussed. The results will be of interest to all those interested in animal mummies and in the development of catacombs as well as those concerned with the evolution of the sacred landscape of Saqqara.
Author: salima ikram
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774248580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. This book draws together studies on the different types of animal mummies, the methods of mummification, and the animal cemeteries located at sites throughout Egypt.
Author: Harry Sidney Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Falcon Complex and Catacomb of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara were discovered in 1969 and excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society expedition directed by W B Emery until his death in Cairo in March 1971. Fieldwork continued under the directorship of H S Smith (Field Director) and G T Martin (Site Director) and was completed by 1976. This volume documents the main temple complex.
Author: Elizabeth Anne Hastings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Author: Christine Insley Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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(Egypt Exploration Society, Excavation Memoirs 53, 1987)
Author: J. D. Ray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Deals with Inscriptions texts found at Ancient Egyptian animal necropolises in Egypt, particularly at North Saqquâra and the Serapeum of Memphis.
Author: J. D. Ray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780856982170
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This volume publishes the demotic ostraca discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara more than thirty years ago. This site, with its complex of galleries and temple buildings, has brought new insights into Egyptian art and architecture, as well as important information about the economy and organisation of what has turned out to be a cosmopolitan area. The majority of the four hundred or more ostraca published in this volume are written on potsherds, but there are also limestone and gypsum plaster fragments and writing-boards. Collectively, they preserve two different types of text: firstly jar-labels or dockets originally written upon a complete vessel in order to describe its contents or to give directions for its delivery, and secondly compositions written upon a sherd that had already been broken from its parent vessel, or a flake of limestone or some similar material. The texts include literary and magical compositions and a range of texts which argue for the existence of a scribal school of some kind. There is also a short oracular question, various dedications to the gods of the Necropolis, an appeal to the Mother of the Apis, lists of payments and divine images, and a document of self-sale or self-hire which is probably the earliest such document so far recognised. Some of the texts date from the Achaemenid period but the majority are undoubtedly Ptolemaic with some preponderance to the first half of the dynasty.
Author: Cary J. Martin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004377530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Sven Vleeming containing the contributions of thirty-eight friends and colleagues, often renowned specialists in their respective fields. It includes the editions of fifty-four new texts from Ancient Egypt that date from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE and covers a very wide range of subjects in (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic and Greek papyrology. As such, it reflects the equally wide range of knowledge of the scholar to whom this book is dedicated.
Author: Marsha Hill
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392317
Category : Metal sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians crafted exquisite statues of bronze, copper, silver and gold as offerings to their gods and for use in temples and shrines. This title focuses on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, presenting insights and up-to-date information on this precious work.
Author: Kim Ryholt
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772896489
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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This book contains contributions from K.T. Zauzich, H.S. Smith, B. Porten, U. Kaplony-Heckel, R.K. Ritner, S. Allam, M. Chauveau, and D. Devauchelle.
