Social aspects of funerary culture in the Egytian [i.e. Egyptian] Old and Middle Kingdoms
Subtitle: proceedings of the international symposium held at Leiden University, 6-7 June, 1996
By: edited by Harco Willems.
Contributors: Willems, Harco.
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 103
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Leuven, Belgium; Paris; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt.; Death -- Social aspects -- Egypt.
Other titles: Social aspects of funerary culture in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms :
Notes: Internat. conference proceedings.

Includes folded chart of spells 30-37 on p. [373].

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in English and German.
Table of contents: value: Preface / Harco Willems; value: Change of body position in Egyptian burials from the Mid XIIth Dynasty until the early XVIIIth Dynasty / Janine Bourriau; value: The predynastic cemetery N7000 at Nag'a ed-Dêr. A re-evaluation / Parsival Delrue; value: Grabdekoration und die Interpretation funerärer Rituale im Alten Reich / Martin Fitzenreiter; value: Bwt in the body / Paul John Frandsen; value: Bestand und Deutung der Opferdepots bei Tempeln, in Wohnhausbereichen und Gräben der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Tell el-Dab'a / Vera Müller; value: Die Ikonographie des Todes / Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer; value: The social and ritual context of a mortuary liturgy of the Middle Kingdom (CT Spells 30-41) / Harco Willems.