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Five New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

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The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed wherever some space was still available in the cemetery between the major monuments of 18th Dynasty date. Some of them were clearly built against the exterior walls of these previous monuments, whereas their unusual plans show how the builders had to adapt to the cramped conditions in the cemetery. The five tombs vary in date from the very end of the 18th Dynasty to well into the Ramesside period. The most important one was built for Ry, an army officer who must have served under general (later Pharaoh) Horemheb. The rediscovery of his tomb finally enables us to understand the provenance of a whole series of reliefs now in the Berlin Museum and elsewhere. The set of five also comprises two tombs of priests in the temple of Ptah, the Memphite town god. Both Khay and Tatia served in the sanctuary as carrier of the divine barque during processions, combining this office with other jobs: chief royal gardener in the case of Khay, and chief of goldsmiths for Tatia. The latter was a contemporary of Pharaoh Ramesses II, whereas Khay seems to have lived slightly earlier. The tomb of Samut is a very humble affair consisting of a rare four-sided stela standing next to a simple burial shaft. The owner was a simple stone-mason or necropolis workman, and the presence of his funerary monument in what used to be an elite cemetery comes as a surprise. Less informative is the fifth tomb of this series, which is no more than an unfinished and anepigraphic limestone chapel with a now inaccessible shaft in front.

Author Biography:

Prof. Maarten J. Raven Is The Curator Of The Egypt Collection In The Dutch National Museum Of Antiquities. He Studied Egyptian Languages And Literature, History Of Art And Archaeology At The University Of Leiden. Since 1975, He Performs Fieldwork At Saqqara (Egypt). He Is Particularly Interested In The Art And Material Culture Of The New Kingdom And The Late Period, In Iconography, Magic And Symbolism, And In Egyptomania And The Rediscovery Of Ancient Egypt. Raven Wrote His Dissertation On Aspects Of Funerary Symbolism (Symbols Of Resurrection: Three Studies In Ancient Egyptian Iconography, 1984). He Published Many Articles, Catalogues And Monographs On Material Culture, The Leiden Collection And Fieldwork In Saqqara. In September 2012, Maarten Raven Was Appointed Extraordinary Professor Of The Museology Of Ancient Egypt In The Egyptology Department Of The Faculty Of Humanities. He Focuses On The Museum Aspects Of Egyptology And Investigates The Formation Of Egyptian Collections In Museums In The Netherlands And Elsewhere. Besides His Appointment As Curator, Raven Is Active As Board Member Of Various Institutions In The Field Of Museums And Egyptology.
Release date Australia
August 15th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
400fc/250bw
Pages
442
ISBN-13
9789464262728
Product ID
38754997

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