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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781588397164 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
NVIC |
Transcribing agency |
NVIC |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
James P. Allen |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Inscriptions from Lisht: |
Remainder of title |
Texts from Burial Chambers |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York: |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xi, 74 p., |
Other physical details |
251 pl., ill., col.; |
Dimensions |
32 cm |
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
Title |
Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition; |
Volume/sequential designation |
31 |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"The inscribed objects found in or associated with the burial chambers of Middle Kingdom officials and other individuals provide an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of ancient Egyptian funerary culture. These include the coffins and sarcophagi as well as canopic chests and jars, mummy masks, ivory wands, miniature coffins, and shawabtis. This volume incorporates all such inscribed material associated with more than one hundred burial chambers and graves found at Lisht North and Lisht South, two sites excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1907 until 1934 and from 1984 to 1991. Two kings, several members of the royal family, and many elite persons, as well as a community of middle-class people found their resting place in and around the royal pyramids at Lisht, which served as the principal cemetery for Egypt's capital during the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 B.C.). The material in the corpus published here represents a sequence of seven chronological phases at Lisht that range from the reigns of the kings Amenemhat I and Senwosret I through the late Dynasty XIII and the Second Intermediate Period. The inscribed texts presented in this corpus are transliterated and translated, and are accompanied by extensive drawings that meticulously detail these texts, as well as annotations to some previously published material. The lavishly illustrated volume includes heretofore unpublished photographs from the Department of Egyptian Art's archives. Each object described in Inscriptions from Lisht has been assigned a code referring to the primary individual associated with it, and its description includes transliterations of the deceased's name(s) and title(s). Because the location of an inscription on a coffin or sarcophagus is usually significant and because some of these include multiple texts, the author has designed a system of references that reflects the location on the object. Further, the catalogue of objects draws on Museum archives and also provides information concerning the findspot and current location of the object as well as relevant archival material and bibliography." --Provided by publisher. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Ancient Egypt |
Form subdivision |
Art |
General subdivision |
Museums |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hieroglyphs |
Form subdivision |
Inscriptions |
General subdivision |
Ancient language |
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Max Hollein |
Relator term |
forword |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Continuing Resources |