Overview
The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia’s, which was started in the same lavish style and then remained undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just one of the relatives of the owner, who – like Ptahemwia – seems to have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period. This publication presents the results of the recent excavations, with an introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners followed by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
Full Product Details
Author: Maarten J. Raven
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Volume: 22
ISBN: 9789088908095
ISBN 10: 9088908095
Pages: 476
Publication Date: 17 December 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Dr Maarten J. Raven is honorary research associate of the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden (Netherlands). During his working life, he was curator of the Egyptian collections of that museum and field director of the museum’s excavations at Saqqara (Egypt). He is the author of numerous books and articles, especially exhibition catalogues and studies on Egyptian objects and their acquisition history. He also published a number of other volumes on the Leiden excavations (The tomb of Iurudef (1991), The tomb of Maya and Meryt, II (2001), The tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara (2005), The Memphite tomb of Horemheb, V (2011), and The tomb of Meryneith at Saqqara (2014)).
