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020			_a9789088908095
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100	1		_aMaarten Raven
245	1	4	_aThe Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara
264		1	_aLeiden: _bSidestone Press, _c2020
300			_a427 p., _bplans, drawings, photographs; _c28 cm
440			_aPALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities; _v22 _x2034550X
505			_aContents: _tPreface _tStaff of the expeditions, 2007–2017 _tI The site and its history _rMaarten J. Raven _tII The family and career of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht _rMaarten J. Raven _tIII The architecture _rMaarten J. Raven _tIV The reliefs and inscriptions _rMaarten J. Raven and Harold M. Hays† _tV The graffiti _rW. Paul van Pelt and Nico T.B. Staring _tVI Objects _rMaarten J. Raven _tVII Pottery _rBarbara G. Aston _tVIII Skeletal remains _rLadislava Horáčková _tConcordance of excavation numbers and catalogue numbers _tSpatial distribution of finds _tList of designated features _tAbbreviations _tBibliography _tIndices
520			_aThe two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia’s, which was started in the same lavish style and then remained undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just one of the relatives of the owner, who – like Ptahemwia – seems to have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period. This publication presents the results of the recent excavations, with an introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners followed by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
650			_aArchaeology _xAncient Egypt _yNew Kingdom
650			_aEgyptology _vFunerary architecture _xTombs _zSaqqara
650			_aPtahemwia _vArchitecture _vIconography _xGraffiti _xSkeletal remains _xPottery
650			_aSethnakht _vPaleopathology _xPottery _xReliefs
700			_aWillem F.M. Beex† _eplans
700			_aAnnelies Bleeker _eplans
700			_aDorothea Schulz _edrawings
700			_aWilliam Schenck _edrawings
700			_aLyla Pinch Brock _edrawings
700			_aPeter Jan Bamhof _ephotographs
700			_aAnneke J. de Kemp _ephotographs
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