Old Kingdom, new perspectives
Subtitle: Egyptian art and archaeology 2750-2150 BC
By: edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick
Contributors: Strudwick, Nigel; Strudwick, Helen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781842174302
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Civilization; Congresses; Antiquities
Notes: Proceedings of the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, held May 20-23, 2009 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick; title: Recent work in the tomb of Nebkauhor at Saqqara / Abdou el-Kerety; title: A new Old Kingdom rock-cut tomb from Abusir and its Abusir-Saqqara context / Miroslav Bárta; title: Mastaba core structure: new data from Fourth Dynasty elite tombs at Abu Rawash / Michel Baud and Eric Guerrier; title: The art of Egyptian hieroglyphs as seen by the Akhmim painters / V. G. Callender; title: Two cemeteries for one provincial capital? Deir el-Bersha and el-Sheikh Said in the fifteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the Old Kingdom / Marleen De Meyer; title: Blocks from the Unas causeway recorded in Cerný's notebooks at the Griffith Institute, Oxford / Andrés Diego Espinel; title: A spatial metaphor for chronology in the secondary cemeteries at Giza / May Farouk; title: The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafre at Giza / Laurel Flentye; title: Reading the Menkaure triads: part II (multi-directionality) / Florence Dunn Friedman; title: The death of the democratisation of the afterlife / Harold M. Hays; title: A new specific tomb type in Abusir? / Jaromír Krejcí; title: An afterworld for Netjerykhet / Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz; title: Re-examining the Khentkaues town / Mark Lehner, Daniel Jones, Lisa Yeomans, Hanan Mahmoud and Kasia Olchowska; title: Searching for an undistorted template (digital epigraphy in action) / Jolana Malatkova; title: The "reserve heads": some remarks on their function and meaning / Massimiliano Nuzzolo; title: The evidence of images: art and working techniques in the mastaba of Mereruka / Gabriele Pieke; title: The concept of XPRR in Old Kingdom religious texts / Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska; title: Twisted kilts: variations in aspective representation in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels / Ann Macy Roth; title: And where are the viscera? reassessing the function of Old Kingdom canopic recesses and pits / Teodozja I. Rzeuska; title: Fixed rules or personal choice? on the composition and arrangement of daily life scenes in Old Kingdom elite tombs / Nico Staring; title: Village, town and barracks: a Fourth Dynasty settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza / Ana Tavares; title: An Old Kingdom bakery at Sheikh Said south: preliminary report on the pottery corpus / Stefanie Vereecken; title: Why was the Fifth Dynasty cemetery founded at Abusir? / Miroslav Verner and Vladimír Bruna; title: The economic connection between the royal cult in the pyramid temples and the sun temples in Abusir / Hana Vymazalová; title: The Ancient Egypt Research Associates settlement site at Giza: the Old Kingdom ceramic distribution / Anna Wodzinska; title: Zss wad scenes of the Old Kingdom revisited / Alexandra Woods.