The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology:

The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004 - Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2006 - vii, 381 p., xx p. of plates, ill. (some col.), maps, plans; 31 cm

Papers chiefly in English; 2 in German.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tomb and social status : the textual evidence / Nicole Alexanian -- Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom / James P. Allen -- Miniature and model vessels in Ancient Egypt / Susan Allen -- Presenting the nḍt-ḥr-offerings to the tomb owner / Hartwig Altenmüller -- King Sahura with the precious trees from Punt in a unique scene! / Tarek El Awady -- The Sixth Dynasty tombs in Abusir : tomb complex of the vizier Qar and his family / Miroslav Bárta -- Die Statuen mit Papyrusrolle im Alten Reich / Edith Bernhauer -- False doors & history : the Sixth Dynasty / Edward Brovarski -- The iconography of the princess in the Old Kingdom / Vivienne G. Callender -- A new necropolis from the Old Kingdom at South Saqqara / Vassil Dobrev -- The development of the Eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza during the Fourth Dynasty : the relationship between architecture and tomb decoration / Laurel Flentye -- Rethinking the rules for Old Kingdom sculpture : observations on poses and attributes of limestone statuary from Giza / Rita Freed -- Continuity or collapse : wooden statues from the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period / Julia Harvey -- Portions of an Old Kingdom offering list reified / Salima Ikram -- Old Kingdom tombs and dating : problems and priorities : the Cemetery en Échelon at Giza / Peter Jánosi -- Research into Fifth Dynasty sun temples : past, present and future / Jaromír Krejčí, Dušan Magdolen -- The title ḫtmtj nt̲r - god's sealer - in the Old Kingdom / Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz -- The function of the faience inlays in the funerary temple of Raneferef at Abusir / Renata Landgráfová -- Stones, ancestors, and pyramids : investigating the pre-pyramid landscape of Memphis / Serena Love -- A re-examination of Reisner's nucleus cemetery concept at Giza : preliminary remarks on Cemetery G 2100 / Peter Der Manuelian -- Are large excavations really necessary? / Ian Mathieson -- The "Dry Moat" west of the Netjerykhet enclosure / Karol Myśliwiec -- Two enigmatic circular mud brick structures in the Western Field at Giza : a preliminary report / Stephen R. Phillips -- Der Grabherr und die Lotosblume : zu lokalen und geschlechtsspezifischen Traditionen eines Motivkreises / Gabriele Pieke -- Little women : gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels / Ann Macy Roth -- Grave consequences : developing analytical methods to elucidate patterns of social differentiation at early Egyptian cemetery sites / Joanne M. Rowland -- Dog missing his master : reflections on an Old Kingdom tomb relief in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore / Regine Schulz -- Ideal and reality in Old Kingdom private funerary cults / Yayoi Shirai -- The translation of texts of the Old Kingdom / Nigel Strudwick -- The columns of Abusir / Miroslav Verner -- The administrative documents in the Abusir papyrus archives / Hana Vymazalová -- A new early Old Kingdom layered stone structure at Northwest Saqqara : a preliminary report / Sakuji Yoshimura, Nozomu Kawai -- The architectural complex of Akhethetep at Saqqara : the last discoveries / Christiane Ziegler.

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