Egypt
egyptianfunerarycones
Thanks to Ingebork Waanders for letting me know about the above recently published book.
A Compendium of EGYPTIAN Funerary Cones
A book by Gary Dibley and Bron Lipkin (c) 2009
- Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose To Go On Display At The Brooklyn
Art Daily Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most important funerary...
- Bmsaes Issue 15, November 2010
British Museum Studies of Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15 Issue 15: November 2010 See the above page for links to PDFs of all the articles below, free of charge. Editorial This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research...
- 3400 Year Old Book Of The Dead
The British Museum's curator Dr John Taylor has located pieces of a New Kingdom book of the dead that once belonged to a high priest of Amun in around 1420 bc. The fragments are kept in the Queensland Museum but there are other pieces in various...
- The Eternal Hairdo
The ancient Egyptians loved their hair styles and wished to be coiffed well for eternity this included the use of fats and resin to set their curls for the afterlife. Unfortunately eternity is a long time and most ended up with severe cases of bedhead...
- Valley Of The Kings: The Tombs And The Funerary Temples Of Thebes West
Kent Weeks VMB Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-540-0976-9 This book edited by Kent R. Weeks and with photographs by Araldo De Luca has 14 contributors who represent a who's who of Egyptology so much is expected from it. Right off the start the...
Egypt
New Book: Egyptian Funerary Cones
egyptianfunerarycones
Thanks to Ingebork Waanders for letting me know about the above recently published book.
A Compendium of EGYPTIAN Funerary Cones
A book by Gary Dibley and Bron Lipkin (c) 2009
Egyptian funerary cones were used on the facade of some tombs of high ranking officials buried in the Theban necropolis from the 18th to the 26th dynasty.
Cones have stamped hieroglyphic impressions on their bases giving details of the owner's name and title[s] and are a valuable information resource for Egyptologists.
In 1957 M.F. Laming Macadam published the work of the late N. de Garis Davies in a book titled A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones. He provided 611 facsimile drawings of cones known at the time. It had been his intention to produce a further study of the texts and to match cones to known tombs but sadly this never occurred.
We hope that this publication will go some way to filling this void, as a book that will be of use to scholars and laymen alike.
The facsimile drawings within this book are reproduced with a transliteration and translation of the owner’s name, title[s] and any other information provided on the cone with a note of the tomb number if known. The index contains a referenced Tabulation of information regarding each cone. A further number of cones which have been published or located since the publication of Macadam’s book are added to the corpus.
- Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose To Go On Display At The Brooklyn
Art Daily Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most important funerary...
- Bmsaes Issue 15, November 2010
British Museum Studies of Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15 Issue 15: November 2010 See the above page for links to PDFs of all the articles below, free of charge. Editorial This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research...
- 3400 Year Old Book Of The Dead
The British Museum's curator Dr John Taylor has located pieces of a New Kingdom book of the dead that once belonged to a high priest of Amun in around 1420 bc. The fragments are kept in the Queensland Museum but there are other pieces in various...
- The Eternal Hairdo
The ancient Egyptians loved their hair styles and wished to be coiffed well for eternity this included the use of fats and resin to set their curls for the afterlife. Unfortunately eternity is a long time and most ended up with severe cases of bedhead...
- Valley Of The Kings: The Tombs And The Funerary Temples Of Thebes West
Kent Weeks VMB Publishers Italy 2008 ISBN: 978-88-540-0976-9 This book edited by Kent R. Weeks and with photographs by Araldo De Luca has 14 contributors who represent a who's who of Egyptology so much is expected from it. Right off the start the...