...The first part of this chapter deals with some of the general problems in dating and distinguishing different styles and local traditions within the New Kingdom Book of the Dead material, with a special focus on the Ramesside era. The second part is devoted to the special case of Deir el-Medina...

... queens Shu Tefnut temples Egyptian eye goddess humanity cobra goddesses Coffin Texts Egypt Egyptologists solar disc Thebes Instruction Texts Khufu maat order Papyrus Westcar The Shipwrecked Sailor Cleopatra's Needle crowns Deir el Medina Nubia and Nubians Thutmose III tombs...

... meaningful when seen as part of Egyptian mythology as a whole. Contendings of Horus and Seth Deir el Medina Freudians hieratic script Papyrus Chester Beatty I Ramesses V encomium to Structuralism Thebes festivals religious Horus kingship office of myth Seth sun god as creator tombs Wente E F...

... Kingdom Old Kingdom seated man hieroglyph Thebes owl hieroglyph script Butehamun Djehutymose Piankh General Renaissance Period Aswan Book of What is in the Underworld Harkhuf Pepi II King Valley of the Kings Wisdom Texts Deir el Medina ostraka Qenherkhopshef Christie A Death Comes...

... and atop high walls. This study also presents the problems and, accordingly, the recording methods chosen during epigraphic work in the tombs of Amennakht, Nebenmaat, and Khameteri (TT 218, TT 219, and TT 220) in Deir el-Medina and the complex of Sokar and Nefertem in the temple of Seti I in Abydos...

...Amunnakht, scribe in the necropolis of Deir el-Medina, is a well-known figure in Ancient Egyptian history. He was active in the reigns of Ramses III to Ramses VI. From his quill we have not only administrative records but also a series of literary and didactic texts. In addition to the six literary...

...Figure 6.1 The village of Deir el-Medina. [Photograph by R. J. Demarée.] Figure 6.2 A delivery of firewood and pottery noted on an ostracon (private collection), dated to year 3 of Seti I. [Photograph by R. J. Demarée.] Figure 6.3 Journals with daily notes concerning work and related...

... headrests protection sandals shabtis burial grounds burial rites ceremonies eban necropolis everyday death funeral ceremonies funerary culture graveside hereafter the intact burials necropolis Theban rock cut tombs Theban necropolis Deir el Medina ebes royal tombs box shaped coffins...

...Community medicine and healthcare, undertaken in the towns and villages throughout Egypt, played a very important role. Recent research on human remains associated with the royal workmen’s towns at Giza, Kahun, Amarna and Deir el-Medina is providing a wealth of evidence about disease patterns...

...This chapter presents an overview of the range of hieratic palaeography as attested in Ramesside Deir el-Medina. Despite its still incomplete state of publication, the material already allows for the identification of a number of individual hands, displaying idiosyncrasies and personal preferences...

... of the Valley of the Kings, running from the southeast (lower right) to northwest (upper left). [Courtesy S. Parcak and Digital Globe.] Figure 33.3 Processed WorldView-2 imagery of a large, subsurface structure at northern Qurnet Murai, southeast of the Hathor and Amun temples at Deir el-Medina...

... on one site, Deir el Medina, a village built to house the workers of the royal tombs and their families. It also discusses the maplike aspects of temple art during the period, a world map depicting the victories of Seti I, a map partially preserved in the form of fifteen fragments of papyrus...

...’ Petrie Flinders racism Smith Grafton Elliot Bat cow goddess Bible Brace C Loring Childe Gordon Emery Bryan eugenics movement gender Herodotus Davis Whitney Hatshepsut Queen spinning and weaving women Deir el Medina tomb scene archaeology Hetepheres mother of Khufu housing Middle...

... doorways Khentkaues Sat Hathor Seru stela stelae Khnumhotep Niankhkhnum orientation of texts registers speech balloons Kagemni Pashedu Deir el Medina aesthetic variation proportion variation aesthetic ‘cup bearer’ variations ‘Dancing Men’ Sherlock Holmes First Intermediate Period...

... in the texts written by the Deir el-Medina scribe Amennakhte son of Ipuy in New Kingdom Egypt (Twentieth Dynasty; c. 1150 bce). After a discussion of the challenge posed by the identification of scribes and authors in this sociocultural setting, I provide an overview of the corpus...

... Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina. In Wendrich, W. (ed.), Archaeology and apprenticeship: body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 145–170. Cooney, K.M.   2014 . Private sector tomb robbery and funerary arts reuse according...

... of Deir el-Medina since the early 20th century. The chapter focuses in particular on the work of Bernard Bruyère, the central figure of this endeavor. Although the opportunity is given to go through the major discoveries that were made on the site and their contributions to the knowledge of daily life...

... University in Cairo Press. Donker van Heel, K.   2014 . Mrs. Tsenhor: a Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. Donker van Heel, K.   2016 . Mrs. Naunakhte and Family: the Women of Ramesside Deir el-Medina . Cairo...

... of the Sekhmet statues; the carved, joined, and painted wood of Djed-djehuty-iwef-ankh’s nested coffins; and the linen required to embalm bodies. art Egyptian Djed djehuty iwef ankh Irtysen Louvre architecture Egyptian faience hieroglyphs magic statues significance of Amenhotep artist Deir el Medina...