The world of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC)
Subtitle: contributions on archaeology, art, religion, and written sources
By: edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Wolfram Grajetzki
Series: Middle Kingdom studies -- 1-2; Middle Kingdom studies -- 1-2.
Publisher: Golden House Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781906137434
Subjects: Antiquities; History; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: vol. I. Burial Assemblages of the Late Middle Kingdom, Shaft-tombs in Dahshur North / Masahiro Baba, Ken Yazawa; title: Stone Objects from the Late Middle Kingdom Settlement at Tell el-Daba / Bettina Bader; title: Late Middle Kingdom or Late Period? Re-Considering the "Realistic" Statue Head, Munich ÄS 1622 / Helmut Brandl; title: The Statue of the Steward Nemtyhotep ( Berlin ÄM 15700) and some Considerations about Royal and Private Portrait under Amenemhat III / Simon Connor; title: Thoughts on the Sculpture of Sesostris I and Amenemhat II, Inspired by the Meket-re Study Day / Biri Fay; title: London BM EA 288 (1237) - a Cloaked Individual / Biri Fay; title: Neferusobek Project (I) / Biri Fay, Rita E. Freed, Thomas Schelper, Friederike Seyfried; title: A Torso gets a Name: an Additional Statue of the Vizier Mentuhotep? / Rita E. Freed; title: Three Burials of the Seventeenth Dynasty in Dra Abu El-Naga / José M. Galán, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras; title: A Middle Kingdom Stela from Koptos (Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove HA282043) / Wolfram Grajetzki; title: Hathor and her Festivals at Lahun / Zoltán Horváth; title: King Seankhibra and the Middle Kingdom Appeal to the Living / Alexander Ilin-Tomich; title: A unique Funerary Complex in Qubbet el-Hawa for Two Governors of the Late Twelfth Dynasty / Alejandro Jiménez Serrano; title: In the Realm of Reputation: Private Life in Middle Kingdom Auto/biographies / Renata Landgráfová; title: The So-called Governors' Cemetery at Bubastis and Provincial Elite, Tombs in the Nile Delta: State and Perspectives of Research / Eva Lange; title: The Archetype of Kingship Who Senwosret I claimed to be, How and Why? / David Lorand; title: Tracing Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts Traditions at Dahshur / Antonio J. Morales; title: New Approaches to the Study of Households in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt / Miriam Müller; title: The (social) House of Khnumhotep / Melinda G. Nelson-Hurst; title: Scribes of the Gods in the Coffin Texts / Rune Nyord; title: The Significance of the Hieroglyph 'The Egg with the Young Bird Inside / Mohamed Gamal Rashed; title: The Canopic Chest of Khakheperreseneb/Iy - Louvre E 17108 / Patricia Rigault; title: I am a Nbt-pr, and I am Independent / Danijela Stefanovic, Helmut Satzinger; title: Garstang's El Arabah Tomb E.1 / Angela M. J. Tooley; title: vol. II. Tombs in transition: MIDAN.05 and windows in the early Eighteenth Dynasty / Marilina Betrò; title: Precious finds from an early Middle Kingdom tomb in Thebes: reconstructing connections between the dead and their goods / Anna Consonni; title: Umm-Mawagir in Kharga Oasis: an Industrial Landscape of the Late Middle Kingdom/Second Intermediate Period / John Darnell, Colleen Darnell; title: The tomb of a Governor of Elkab of the Second Intermediate Period / Vivian Davies; title: An Isolated Middle Kingdom Tomb At Dayr Al-Barsha / Marleen De Meyer; title: The Transmission of Offices in The Middle Kingdom / Nathalie Favry; title: The stela of the Thirteenth Dynasty treasurer Senebsumai Karin Kopetzky: Some Remarks on the Relations between Egypt and the Levant during the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period / Wolfram Grajetzki Gianluca Miniaci; title: Female Burials in the Funerary Complexes of the Twelfth Dynasty: an Architectonic Approach / Ingrid Melandri; title: Diachronic questions of form and function: falcon-head utensils in Middle Kingdom contexts  / Stephen Quirke; title: The Egg is a metaphor for Isis: a Coffin Text Imagery / Mohammed Gamal Rashed; title: 'Writing-Board Stelae' with Sokar-Formula: a preliminary Account / Gloria Rosati; title: Two loose blocks from Hawara of Sobek-Hotep / Ashraf Senussi, Said Abd Alhafeez Abd Allah Kheder; title: An unpublished Scarab of Queen Tjan (Thirteenth Dynasty) from the Louvre Museum (AF 6755) / Julien Siesse; title: Literary exploitation of a craftman's device: the sandal-maker biting leather (Teaching of Chety, pSallier VIII, 12). When philology, iconography and archaeology overlap / Pascal Vernus; title: Boundaries of Protection: Function and Significance of the Framing (Lines) on Middle Kingdom Apotropaia, in particular Magic Wands / Fred Vink; title: On the Context and Conception of Two 'Trademark' Styles from Late Middle Kingdom Abydos / Paul Whelan