"This collection of papers by leading international experts on the subject of ancient Egyptian coffins, builds on a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to study and record in detail its collection. Papers address a series of topics including: the development of c…
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The ancient Egyptian fascination with the deities and events during the twelve hours of the night dwindled only with the demise of Egyptian religion itself. A corpus of large stone sarcophagi produced during the Thirtieth Dynasty, decorated with excerpts from the Underworld Book…
Biographical note: Jas Elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK;Janet Huskinson, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce fresh€insights into a subject which has received increased interest in€ English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make …
Panehemisis, Priester des Amun-Re von Schena und Inhaber weiterer Priesterämter, lebte zu Beginn der Ptolemäerzeit in Naukratis im Nordwestdelta, ließ sich jedoch wie viele Würdenträger seiner Zeit in der Nekropole von Saqqara südlich von Memphis bestatten. Sein über zwei Meter …