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Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period de Maria Cannata

Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, cartea 110

Autor Maria Cannata
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2020
In Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the mummification, funeral, burial, and mortuary cult of the deceased, in Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC). The author gathers together and synthesises hundreds of the original textual sources, as well as the relevant archaeological sources, on the organisation of the funerary industry and its practitioners, revealing important regional and chronological variations overlooked in studies focusing on a limited geographical area, a shorter timeframe, or a smaller group of documents.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004406797
ISBN-10: 9004406794
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Tables, Figures and Plates
Illustration Credits
Abbreviations
Outline of Egyptian Chronology

Introduction
1Setting the Scene
2Previous Scholarship on the Subject
3Scope and Organisation of the Book
4Notes on the Conventions and Abbreviations Used

Part 1 The Organisation of the Necropolis and its Funerary Priests



1 The Theban Necropolis
1The Overseer of the Necropolis
2The Lesonis
3The Steward
4Choachytes
5Territorial Jurisdiction of the Choachytes
6Embalmers
7Territorial Jurisdiction of the Embalmers
8Other Funerary Priests

2 The Edfu Necropolis
1The Overseer of the Necropolis and the Lesonis
2Choachytes and Lector-Priests
3Territorial Jurisdiction of Edfu Necropolis Workers

3 The Memphite Necropolis
1The Overseer of the Necropolis
2God’s Seal-Bearers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes
3Territorial Jurisdiction of the Memphite Funerary Priests

4 The Hawara Necropolis
1The Overseer of the God’s Seal-Bearers and Embalmers
2God’s Seal-Bearers (and) Embalmers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes
3Other Funerary Priests
4Territorial Jurisdiction of the Hawara Funerary Priests
5The Organisation of the Hawara Necropolis

5 The Necropolises in Middle Egypt
1The Head of the Necropolis
2Lector-Priests and Embalmers
3Man of the Necropolis
4Seal-Bearer Who Attends the God
5God’s Seal-Bearers
6Necrotaphoi
7Territorial Jurisdiction of the Funerary Priests in Middle Egypt

6 Female Funerary Priests
1Choachytes
2Embalmers

7 Services, Income and Taxation of Funerary Priests
1Definition of the Services Performed by Funerary Priests
2Different Types of Revenues
3Income of Lector-Priests and Embalmers
4Personal and Professional Taxation, Contributions and Exemptions
5Other Economic Activities of the Funerary Priests

8 Priestly Associations
1Association of Theban Choachytes
2Association of Theban Lector Priests
3Association of Memphite Mortuary Priests
4Associations of Mortuary Priests in the Fayum
5Associations of Mortuary Priests in Middle Egypt

9 The Funerary Priests and Their Social Context
1Place of Residence of the Funerary Priests
2The Funerary Priests and Their Families

Part 2 Death, Mummification and Burial



10 Death
1The Mourning Period
2Arranging for the Services of Funerary Priests
3Transport of the Deceased to the Necropolis

11 Mummification
1The Embalming Place: the pr-nfr and the wꜥb.t
2Arranging for the Mummification of the Deceased
3The Mummification Process: Stages, Rituals and Materials
4Funerary Priests Involved in the Mummification Process

12 Burial
1Role of the Funerary Priests Following the Mummification Process
2Funeral and Burial
3The Lexicology of the Entombment
4Delayed Burial
5Mortuary Cult

13 Funerary Expenses
1Mummification Materials and Burial Equipment: Production, Acquisition and Provision
2Provision of Mummification Materials and Burial Equipment
3Burial Taxes
4Cost and Payment of the ‘Mummification and Burial’

14 The Deceased
1The Living and the Dead
2Epithets of the Dead
3Social Status and Ethnic Background of the Deceased

Part 3 Necropolises, Tombs and Burials



15 Necropolises
1Location of Burial Grounds
2Funerary Landscape: Topographical Textual Notes
3God’s Acre: Possession, Taxation and Acquisition of Plots and Tombs

16 Tombs
1The Lexicography of Tombs’ Typology
2Tombs’ Typology: Textual and Archaeological Evidence
3Building a New Tomb
4Using an Existing Tomb
5Collective Tombs

17 Burials
1Select Survey of Inhumations’ Typology

Part 4 Discussion and Conclusion



18 Discussion and Conclusion
1The Organisation of the Necropolis and its Funerary Priests
2Death, Mummification and Burial
3Necropolises, Tombs and Burials

Appendix 1: Palaeographical and Orthographical Analysis of the Root ḳs
Appendix 2: P. Florence 3667 (111 BC)
Appendix 3: Tables
Bibliography
List of the Main Primary Sources Analysed (arranged by necropolis and category)
Bibliographical Details of the Primary Sources Cited (Arranged Alphabetically and by Museums’ Inventory Number)
List of Personal Names
List of Toponyms Mentioned
Select Index of Words
Plates

Notă biografică

Maria Cannata, Ph.D. (2009), Oxford University, teaches Egyptology at Peking University. She has published many articles on the funerary sphere in the Graeco-Roman Period, including, most recently, From the Embalmers’ Cabinets of Curiosities and Titbits from Tatters: Papyrus Bodleian MS.Egypt.d.19(P).

Recenzii

"The volume should be of considerable interest and utility to a wide range of Egyptologists and Demotic and Greek papyrologists, as well as historians, anthropologists and archaeologists interested in the social history of death. The author has made the material accessible to those who do not control any or all of the ancient languages used in Ptolemaic Egypt, by providing English translations of all of the ancient passages cited. Those who do know the languages and source materials, however, will appreciate the author’s detailed discussions and considerations of the readings and meanings of individual words, phrases and passages with reference to transliterations, transcriptions and even hand copies of Demotic. There is also an extensive index of sources cited with bibliographic references, for those who wish to consult editions of the primary sources for themselves. The volume can thus be profitably consulted and used both as an overview of Egyptian funerary priests and their practices in Ptolemaic Egypt, and as a comprehensive reference work for many of their activities.”
- Brian Muhs in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 116-6 (2021)

“Das Buch hat einen überraschend positiven Eindruck ergeben. (…) Die Lektüre ist auch so sehr zu empfehlen.”
- Stefan Bojowald, in SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC, 115 (2021)