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The Family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) revisited provides fresh material about the identity of one of the key figures of the family that reused the Saite tomb of Ankh-Hor (TT 414) in the Asasif from the 4th century BCE onwards. It is the woman Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu, who was previously listed in the genealogical register of TT 414 as Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy’s daughter and wife of one of his sons, Hor. By examining objects found by the agents of the consuls in the 19th century CE and those found by the Austrian mission in the 1970s in TT 414 and in wider Theban contexts, the authors are able to identify Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu, wife of Hor, as another, until now overlooked individual, separate from his sister with the same name. The examination of the funerary assemblage of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu and of objects belonging to her husband, daughter and sons reveals not only details of Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic burial customs in Thebes but also additional information on the priesthood of Khonsu and of the sacred baboons in this era. This new identification of a previously overlooked person, the mistress of the house and daughter of the first prophet of Amun, Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137), demonstrates that the finds from TT 414 are still far from being processed in their totality. This material has the potential to provide answers to some of the open questions regarding Late Dynastic/Ptolemaic Thebes and to contextualise funerary assemblages.

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Author:   Julia Budka (Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) ,  Tamás Mekis
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress Archaeology
Weight:   0.337kg
ISBN:  

9781803271620

ISBN 10:   1803271620
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   14 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Prologue ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The case study of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137) ; Chapter 3: Secondary sources related to the family of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108+G137) ; Doc. 1 Striding statue of Hor presenting an offering table ; Doc. 2 The situla of Hor ; Doc. 3 The funerary stela of Nes-Khonsu ; Doc. 4 The stela of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy II (London, BM, EA 8462) ; Doc. 5 Fragments of the qrsw-coffin of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy II (London, British Museum, EA 6945, 6946) ; Doc. 6 The wooden stela of Wesir-wer (Turin, Museo Egizio, P 3610) ; Doc. 7 Striding statue of Djed-her (Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 37357) ; Doc. 8 Funerary papyri of Djed-her ; Doc. 9 The canopic chest of Djed-her (EA 8537) ; Doc. 10 Book of the Dead papyrus (Turin, Museo Egizio di Torino, cat. no. 1830) ; Doc. 11 Funerary papyri of Pa-kher-Khonsu ; Doc. 12 Book of the Dead Papyrus of Pa-kher-Khonsu (Turin, Museo Egizio di Torino, cat. no. 1832) ; Doc. 13 Cuboid statue of Pa-kher-Khonsu (Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 38592) ; Doc. 14 Mummy bandages of Ta-sherit-Min (Paris, Louvre, AF 11954 (X. 25) +11956 (X. 24) + E 18865 + 27459) ; Chapter 4: Primary sources for the family of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137) from TT 414 ; Doc. 15 Coffin assemblage of Hor (Reg. Nos. 414b, 515, 790) ; Doc. 16 Coffin set of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (Reg. Nos. 683 + 699) ; Doc. 17 Inner anthropoid coffin of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy II (Reg. No. 672) ; Doc. 18 Canopic chest (Reg. No. 556, now in Cairo Egyptian Museum) ; Doc. 19 Ushebti figurines of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy II (Reg. Nos. 642 + 643) ; Doc. 20 Outer anthropoid coffin of Djed-her (Reg. No. 767) ; Doc. 21 Outer anthropoid coffin of Wesir-wer (Reg. No. 778) ; Doc. 22 Mummy bandages of Ta-sherit-Min (Reg. No. 545) ; Chapter 5: Summary and discussion ; Bibliography ; Indices

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Julia Budka studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and received her PhD in Egyptology, from the same institution in 2007. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art, LMU Munich. Her specialist fields are Egyptian field archaeology and material culture; she has conducted excavations in Sudan and Egypt, both at funerary and settlement sites, especially at Luxor (Ankh-Hor project) and between Attab and Ferka (MUAFS and DiverseNile projects). Tamás Mekis graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2007 and gained a PhD in Egyptology in 2013. His research focuses on the Theban and Panopolitan funerary beliefs in the Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic Periods, and his publications include The Hypocephalus: an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet (Archaeopress 2020).

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