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This book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.

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Author:   Carlos Gracia Zamacona
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.996kg
ISBN:  

9789004677975

ISBN 10:   9004677976
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   24 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 1 Individuals 1 Secondary Epigraphy and Interaction with Transfigured Dead: The Case of Nikauizezi, Saqqara  Julia Hamilton 2 Decorated Coffin of King’s Ornament Setib Buried at Abusir  Veronika Dulíková and Marie Peterková Hlouchová 3 Putting Intentions in Their Place: Materialising Meaning through Spatial Dynamics in Appeals to the Dead  Angela McDonald 4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou : miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’Âge Thinite à l’Ancien Empire  Jean-Pierre Pätznick 5 Osiris as Written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts  César Guerra Méndez and Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 2 Groups 6 Repeating the Ritual under the Ground: Performance of the Royal Object Ritual in the Middle Kingdom  Seria Yamazaki 7 Dmjw, N(j)wtj‘Citizen’ in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the Context of the Social and Political Changes Occurred in Egypt at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BC  Juan Carlos Moreno García 8 New Spells, New Compilations, and the Concept of Variability in Sequences of Pyramid and Coffin Texts  Christelle Alvarez 9 Becoming Wind? Observations on Identity and Identification in the So-called Transformation Spells  Anne Landborg Part 3 Tracers 10 Variation in the Graphical Form of the First-Person Stative Ending in the Coffin Texts  Jorke Grotenhuis 11 (Re)connecting Artefacts and Thinking in the Afterlife: the Case of Funerary Wooden Models  Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer 12 Variation as a Social Device: ‘Middle Egyptianisms’ in Old Kingdom Letters  M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro 13 Problematising Linguistic Variation in the Coffin Texts: A Case-Study on Spell CT 335  Dina Serova 14 Occurrences of Grave Goods and Their Representations on Coffins: A Concept of Substitution?  Elisabeth Kruck Index

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Carlos Gracia Zamacona, Ph.D. (2008), École Pratique des Hautes Études, is Atracción de Talento senior researcher at the University of Alcalá. He has published on the Coffin Texts, ancient Egyptian semantics and graphemics, including Manual de egipcio medio (Archaeopress, 2017).

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