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In 1895-96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the 'Ramesseum', the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri - also known as the Ramesseum Papyri - found in a single spot together with a number of distinctive objects, such as carved ivory tusks and miniature figurines in various materials dated around XVIII century BC. Gianluca Miniaci attempts to thoroughly reconstruct the archaeological context of the tomb: the exact find spot (forgotten afterwards its discovery), its architecture, the identity of its owner(s) and recipient(s) of the assemblage of artifacts. A detailed analysis of the single artifacts - provided for the first with full color photographic records and drawings - and their network of relations gives new life to the Ramesseum assemblage after more than a century from its discovery.

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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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