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This volume presents a complete catalogue and typology of all known examples of the distinctive rishi coffins of Second Intermediate Period Egypt, anthropoid in form, with feathered decoration. Miniaci also analyses the political and cultural circumstances which lead to the emergence of this coffin design.

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Dr. Gianluca Miniaci is Senior Researcher in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, and Chercheur associe at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He has held research fellowships at the British Museum, Petrie Museum, University of Salerno, and Musee du Louvre. His main publications include Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt (2011); Le lettere ai morti nell'antico Egitto (2014) and, together with Stephen Quirke and Marilina Betro, Company of Images: Modelling the Imaginary World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2017). He is currently editor-in-chief of the international series Middle Kingdom Studies , GHP-London and co-director, together with Richard Bussmann and Aly el-Bakry, of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt).

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