The pyramids
Subtitle: between life and death : proceedings of the workshop held at Uppsala University, Uppsala, May 31st-June 1st, 2012
By: edited by Irmgard Hein, Nils Billing and Erika Meyer-Dietrich
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas -- 36; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis -- 36
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9789155491697
Subjects: Pyramids; Congresses; Antiquities
Description: In May 2012, a group of researchers convened in Uppsala for the workshop: "The Pyramids: Between Life and Death." The purpose was to stimulate an exchange between the different research directions dealing with the wide topic of pyramids. The meeting focused on the pyramids of the Old Kingdom. This volume contains the papers from the workshop. It is divided in two main sections; the first one contains six papers discussing classical pyramid reception, archaeological and architectural issues of the pyramids, the pyramid temple, the topic of pyramid towns and harbour, while five papers in the second part deal with texts and their location. --
Notes: International conference proceedings.

University publication.

Includes loose corrigenda.

Includes bibliographical references.

1 French, 10 English contributions.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Archaeological studies on the pyramids; title: Greeks and some Romans on the pyramids  -- Denis Searby; title: What did the court in the pyramid temple of Khafre at Giza look like?  -- Peter Já́nosi; title: 'Abusir paradigm' and the beginning of the fifth dynasty  -- Miroslav Bárta; title: Foundation of the royal necropolis at Abusir  -- Jaromír Krejči; title: The stability of ancient stone monuments and their preliminary assessment : an example of the step pyriamid  -- Agnese Kukela and Valdis Seglins; title: The name and nature of the Heit el-Ghurab old kingdom site : worker's town, pyramid town, and the port hypothesis  -- Mark Lehner -- Part II. Pyramid texts and decoration; title: The fifth dynasty sun temples and their relationship with the contemporary pyramids  -- Massimiliano Nuzzolo; title: La paroi Est de la chambre funéraire de la reine Béhénou  -- Catherine Berger-el Naggar and Mari-Noëlle Fraisse; title: The original corpus programme of text in the sarcophagus chamber of King Pepi I  -- Roman Gundacker; title: "It is I, your son; I am Horus" : ritual and spatial progression in the pyramid of Pepy I  -- Nils Billing; title: Sonic acting in the pyramid of Queen Neith : statements about sound in ritual texts from the time of Pepi II -- Erika Meyer-Dietrich.