123 pages
Published Apr 2015
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Digital: 9781784911171
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This study investigates gender-based and ritual-dependent afterlife expectations of the deceased over a key phase in Egyptian history from the latter part of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom Period, c.2686 BC - c.1650 BC.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ;
CHAPTER 2: THEORY AND METHOD ;
CHAPTER 3: SOCIETY AND DEATH ;
CHAPTER 4: LIMINAL CONTEXTS ;
CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION: GATHERING THE STRANDS ;
APPENDIX 1: APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 3 ;
APPENDIX 2: APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4 ;
APPENDIX 3: Titles and epithets associated with women in possession of offering table depictions ;
APPENDIX 4: Frequency of rituals enacted in offering table depictions from the examples included in this study. ;
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