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Culture and History of the Ancient near East Series ; Volume 131

Print version: Staring, Nico. Saqqara Necropolis Through the New Kingdom : Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape. First edition. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, c2023 xxvi, 533 pages Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 131. ISBN 9789004467132

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Acknowledgements -- List of figures, plates and tables -- Abbreviations -- A quiet and desolate plateau, once bustling with life -- Exploring landscape: layerdness, temporality, authorship -- The Memphite Necropolis at Saqqara in the New Kingdom -- The Unas South cemetery -- The Teti Pyramid cemetery and the cliff of Ankhtawy -- The dead and the living in the Memphite cultural landscape -- Saqqara through the New Kingdom: synthesis and final thoughts -- Catalogue of New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Preface and Acknowledgements xi // List of Figures, Plates and Tables xv // Abbreviations XXIII // 1 A Quiet and Desolate Plateau, Once Bustling with Life i // 1.1 Theme, Rationale, and Scope of This Book i // 1.2 The ‘Walking Dead’ at Saqqara 5 // 1.3 Problems and Research Questions 7 // 1.4 A Few Notes on Landscape Archaeology 12 // 1.5 Landscape Biography 13 // 1.6 Structure of This Study 17 // 2 Exploring Landscape: Layerdness, Temporality, Authorship 18 // 2.1 The Layered Landscape 18 // 2.2 Landscape and Temporality 25 // 2.3 Landscape’s Temporal Paradox 29 // 2.4 The Landscape Connecting Moments in Time 33 // 2.5 Landscape Authorship 39 // 2.6 Pitfalls of Desired Life-Paths 41 // 2.7 Landscape, Temporality, and Heritage Practices 46 // 2.8 Landscape and Social Norms 50 // 3 The Memphite Necropolis at Saqqara in the New Kingdom 54 // 3.1 Topography of the North Saqqara Plateau and Its Eastern // Escarpment 54 // 3.2 The North Saqqara Wadi’s: A Network of Desert Roads 61 // 3.3 The River Nile and Its Changing Floodplain 63 // 3.4 A Scattered Cemetery? 67 // 3.5 The Necropolis as a Space Inhabited by the Living and the Dead 70 // 3.6 A Myriad of Tomb Numbering Systems (and Their Absence) 73 // 3.7 Introducing a New Tomb Numbering System for the Saqqara New // Kingdom Necropolis 78 // 3.8 Memphite Tombs and Tomb Clusters Not Included in This Study 79 // 4 The Unas South Cemetery 83 // Extent of the Cemetery 83 // History of Excavation 84 // Notes on the Site before the New Kingdom 88 // The New Kingdom before the Amarna Period 90 // The Expanding Cemetery in the Reign of Amenhotep III // The Amarna Period 120 // Post-Amarna Period: Reign of Tutankhamun 123 // Excursus: The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb 133 // Transition of the 18th to the 19th Dynasty 146 // 4.10 The Cemetery’s Lateral Growth in the Early 19th Dynasty 153 //

4.11 Reign of Ramesses II, First Half 161 // 4.12 Reign of Ramesses II, Second Half 170 // 4.13 The ‘Labyrinth’ at Its Most Complex: Towards the End of the New // Kingdom 186 // 5 The Teti Pyramid Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy 201 // Setting the Scene 201 // A New Kingdom Cemetery Founded on the Remains of the Old // Kingdom 203 // Methodological Problems with Virtually Recreating a Largely Lost // Cemetery 205 // Notes on the Extent of the Cemetery 206 // A Cemetery of Pit-Burials 207 // Evidence for Above-Ground Markers of Pit-Burials 210 // The Earliest Evidence for Tomb Chapels: Reign of // Amenhotep III 213 // Late 18th Dynasty: Amarna and Post-Amarna Period 221 // Ramesside Period 228 // 5.10 Rock-Cut Tombs in the Cliff of Ankhtawy 241 // 6 The Dead and the Living in the Memphite Cultural Landscape 250 // The Place of the Tomb in the Memphite Cultural Landscape 250 // The Sokar Festival at Memphis 255 // From Object to Landscape: The Sokar Festival and the Stela of // Ptahmose (mma 67.3) 258 // The Cemetery En Route to the Serapeum 273 // Temples of Millions of Years and Their Relationship to the // Necropolis 277 // On Wadi’s and Pyramid Causeways: Accessing the Teti Pyramid // Cemetery 283 // 6.7 Closing Note on the Landscape of the Living East of the Teti Pyramid // Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy 288 // 7 Saqqara through the New Kingdom: Synthesis and Final Thoughts 291 // 7.1 A Cultural Landscape Forever in the Making 291 // 7.2 Unas South Cemetery 293 // 7.3 Teti Pyramid Cemetery and the Cliff of Ankhtawy 298 // Catalogue of New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara 302 // Bibliography 465 // Index 516

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