The Sacred and the Secular in the Theban Necropolis
G. Miniaci, C. Greco, P. Del Vesco, M. Mancini, C. Alù (eds), The Sacred and the Secular in the Theban Necropolis, Studies Presented to Marilina Betrò, Egittologia 1, Pisa 2024
The Theban Necropolis is one of Egypt’s most captivating archaeological sites. Stretching almost 7 kilometers from north to south on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, it occupies a broad strip of land between the cultivated fields and the desert mountains and valleys. This extensive site encompasses hundreds of private and royal tombs, monumental temples, smaller chapels and shrines, as well as various settlements. The collected papers, presented to prof. Marilina Betrò, explore diverse aspects of life in the necropolis, including the religious beliefs and rituals of high-ranking officials and priests, the workshops producing funerary objects, and the plundering and reusing of earlier tombs. These studies seek to understand and recreate this intricate ancient landscape.
– Introduction
Gianluca Miniaci, Christian Greco, Paolo Del Vesco, Mattia Mancini, Cristina Alù
– Il paesaggio funerario e rituale della Valle delle Regine durante il Nuovo Regno
Emanuele Casini
– The Opening of the Mouth, Scene 71 in Context
Zoltán Imre Fábián
– ‘Prayers to Columns’: Six text fragments from Theban Tomb 65
Tamás A. Bács
– La liturgia del percorso solare nella tomba di Thutmosi III (KV34)
Emanuele M. Ciampini
– Malédiction sur Osiris. Un entrepôt dans la tombe de Merenptah (KV8) à l’époque byzantine ?
Christophe Barbotin
– A geometric study of the New Kingdom pyramidia
Corinna Rossi
– The Agency of Women in Abnormal Hieratic Legal Documents from the 25th Dynasty
Koenraad Donker van Heel
– Two contemporary queens named Ahhotep at the dawn of the Eighteenth Dynasty: Evidence from the sources and the bracelet Cairo JE 4685
Gianluca Miniaci, Camilla Saler
– Shabti Boxes in Theban Undisturbed Contexts
Paolo Marini
– The Black Coffins and the Earliest Yellow Coffins of the New Kingdom from Thebes. New Insights into this Style Transition During the 18th Dynasty
Lisa Sartini
– Ancient Robbery and Reuse in the Theban Necropolis: A View from Asasif
Julia Budka
– The Island of Amenopet
Nigel Strudwick
– Middle Kingdom tomb MMA 28 and its significance for the construction history of the Hatshepsut temple at Deir el-Bahari. Out of respect for the royal ancestors
Patryk Chudzik
– Funerary settlements of the Third Intermediate Period in the Ramesseum
Hélène Guichard
– Les bois utilisés à la Troisième Période Intermédiaire au Ramesseum
Maria Victoria Asensi Amorós
– Economic Activities in the Theban Necropolis During the New Kingdom. A Case Study of Woodworking at Deir el-Medina
Anna Giulia De Marco
– Il visir Khay e la comunità degli artigiani di Deir el-Medina
Christian Orsenigo
– Documenting Contexts and Contextualizing Objects: Report of the 3D Survey and Modeling Activity at M.I.D.A.N.05
Emanuele Taccola
