Ancient Egyptian Tombs

STEVEN SNAPE is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, Director of Archaeological Collections in Liverpool University's Garstang Museum of Archaeology and Director of its excavations at the Ramesside fortress-town of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. His books include Six Archaeological Sites in Sharqiyeh Province (1986), A Temple of Domitian at El-Ashmunein (1990), Egyptian Temples (1996) and Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham I: The Temple and Chapels (with P. Wilson, 2007).

"This work is a rather ambitious attempt to summarize not only the development of the burial place in ancient Egypt and its architecture, but also the complex religious significance of the tomb, the attendant rituals and ritual objects as well as funerary texts. Admittedly, there is a great deal to be said about each of these aspects of the burial rite in ancient Egypt and the author has essayed a survey that includes a good deal of significant information as well as observation."(Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 12 November 2011)

• List of Figures ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction 11 Nameless Lives at Tarkhan and Saqqara 7Early Tombs and the Ka2 Pits, Palaces and Pyramids 24Royal Cemeteries of the Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom3 Non-Royal Cemeteries of Dynasty 4 354 Unas, Teti and Their Courts 51The Late Old Kingdom at Saqqara5 The Tombs of Qar and Idu 68Families and Funerals in the Late Old Kingdom6 A Growing Independence 86Court and Regional Cemeteries in the Late Old Kingdom7 Ankhtify 105A Time of Change8 Osiris, Lord of Abydos 1179 ‘Lords of Life’ 136Coffins10 Strangers and Brothers 148The Middle Kingdom in Middle Egypt11 North and South 166Middle Kingdom Tombs at the Royal Residence12 Ineni, Senenmut and User-Amun 176New Tombs for Old13 Rekhmire and the Tomb of the Well-Known Soldier 190Foreigners and Funerals in the Age of Empire14 Huya and Horemheb 207Amarna and After15 Samut and the Ramesside Private Tomb 22316 Sennedjem 233Building and Buying at Deir el-Medina17 Petosiris 245A Dying TraditionReferences 260Further Reading 276Index 281