Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Chronological developments in the Old Kingdom tombs in the necropoleis of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir : toward an economic decline during the early dynastic period and the Old Kingdom / Leo Roeten.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeopress Egyptology ; 15.Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1784914614
  • 9781784914608
  • 1784914606
  • 9781784914615
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 932.012 23
LOC classification:
  • DT85
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Bibliography and Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Part I: Various Chronological Developmentsof Dimensional Aspects of the Tombs in the Necropolis of Giza -- Introduction -- II. The purpose of this study -- Chapter One: Preliminary Considerations -- I. A concise history of the development of the non-royal funerary architecture -- Introduction -- II. Experiments in funerary tradition during the reigns of Snefru and Khufu -- II.1. The layout of non-royal cemeteries -- II.2. Tomb architecture
III. About climate change -- III.1. Environmental consequences of climate change -- III.2. Climate change and chapel decoration -- IV. About chronology -- IV.1. The chronological order of the kings of the old kingdom -- IV.2. Considerations concerning the dating of tombs -- V. About the tombs included in the catalogues -- Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Necropolis of Giza -- I. The necropolis before the fourth dynasty -- II. The Necropolis of Giza until the end of the fourth dynasty -- Chapter Three: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors -- I. Introduction
II. The Percentage of Tombs with Chapels with two or more False Doors -- III. Discussion per period -- Chapter Four: The Chronological Development of the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part I -- I. Data management and methodology. -- II. the surface of the tomb versus the surface of its chapel -- Chapter Five: The Chronological Developments in the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part II -- The dimensions of tombs and chapels -- II. The surface ranges of richer and poorer tombs
Chapter Six: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors in Relation to the Dimensions of the Tomb -- I. Introduction -- II. The number of false doors in relation to the dichotomy between "richer" and "poorer" tombs -- III. Discussion -- Chapter Seven: Discussion, Analyses and Conclusions in Relation to the Necropolis of Giza -- I. Introduction -- II. Richer and poorer funerary monuments -- III. Secondary burials -- IV. The false doors -- V. Preliminary conclusions
Figure 1. Three types of "rich" mortuary monuments: a royal pyramid, a queens' pyramid and the mastaba of a member of the royal family or of the highest non-royal social stratum (Giza, eastern field) (photo author). -- Figure 2. Entrance of the tomb of WAS-ptH (PM, III/1, 273 -- Hassan, Giza II, plate IV). -- Figure 3. Entrance of the tomb of Mrrw-kA.j. (PM, III/2, 525-34 -- Photo: www.wikepedia, Mereruka, Saqqara). -- Figure 4. Decoration northern entrance thickness of the mastaba of SSAt-Htp. (PM. III/1, 149-50 -- Junker, Giza II, fig. 25 (page 180)).
Summary: This study suggests, through investigations of the tombs in the necropolis of Giza, that economic decline attributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom had already started in the early dynastic period.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
Total holds: 0

Previously issued in print: 2016.

This study suggests, through investigations of the tombs in the necropolis of Giza, that economic decline attributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom had already started in the early dynastic period.

Specialized.

Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 14, 2016).

Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Bibliography and Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Part I: Various Chronological Developmentsof Dimensional Aspects of the Tombs in the Necropolis of Giza -- Introduction -- II. The purpose of this study -- Chapter One: Preliminary Considerations -- I. A concise history of the development of the non-royal funerary architecture -- Introduction -- II. Experiments in funerary tradition during the reigns of Snefru and Khufu -- II.1. The layout of non-royal cemeteries -- II.2. Tomb architecture

III. About climate change -- III.1. Environmental consequences of climate change -- III.2. Climate change and chapel decoration -- IV. About chronology -- IV.1. The chronological order of the kings of the old kingdom -- IV.2. Considerations concerning the dating of tombs -- V. About the tombs included in the catalogues -- Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Necropolis of Giza -- I. The necropolis before the fourth dynasty -- II. The Necropolis of Giza until the end of the fourth dynasty -- Chapter Three: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors -- I. Introduction

II. The Percentage of Tombs with Chapels with two or more False Doors -- III. Discussion per period -- Chapter Four: The Chronological Development of the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part I -- I. Data management and methodology. -- II. the surface of the tomb versus the surface of its chapel -- Chapter Five: The Chronological Developments in the Dimensions of the Tombs and Their Chapels. Part II -- The dimensions of tombs and chapels -- II. The surface ranges of richer and poorer tombs

Chapter Six: The Chronological Development of the Number of False Doors in Relation to the Dimensions of the Tomb -- I. Introduction -- II. The number of false doors in relation to the dichotomy between "richer" and "poorer" tombs -- III. Discussion -- Chapter Seven: Discussion, Analyses and Conclusions in Relation to the Necropolis of Giza -- I. Introduction -- II. Richer and poorer funerary monuments -- III. Secondary burials -- IV. The false doors -- V. Preliminary conclusions

Figure 1. Three types of "rich" mortuary monuments: a royal pyramid, a queens' pyramid and the mastaba of a member of the royal family or of the highest non-royal social stratum (Giza, eastern field) (photo author). -- Figure 2. Entrance of the tomb of WAS-ptH (PM, III/1, 273 -- Hassan, Giza II, plate IV). -- Figure 3. Entrance of the tomb of Mrrw-kA.j. (PM, III/2, 525-34 -- Photo: www.wikepedia, Mereruka, Saqqara). -- Figure 4. Decoration northern entrance thickness of the mastaba of SSAt-Htp. (PM. III/1, 149-50 -- Junker, Giza II, fig. 25 (page 180)).

Added to collection customer.56279.3

Powered by Koha