The Oxford handbook of the Valley of the Kings
edited by Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks.
Bok · Engelsk · 2016 · Handbooks and manuals.
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| Omfang | XVI, 627 sider : : illustrasjoner, kart ;
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| Opplysninger | Part I: Introduction. Introduction / Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks -- Part II: The natural setting. Geology of the Valley of the Kings / Judith M. Bunbury ; Toponyms of the Valley of the Kings and its approaches / Kent R. Weeks ; The hydrology of the Valley of the Kings : weather, rainfall, drainage patterns, and flood protection in antiquity / Andreas Dorn -- Part III: The development of the royal necropolis. The Egyptian concept of a royal necropolis / John H. Taylor ; Earlier royal tombs, the royal cemeteries of Thebes, and the beginnings of the Valley of the Kings / Aidan Dodson -- Part IV: Tomb construction and development. The workmen who created the royal tombs / Robert J. Demarée ; Choosing the location for a royal tomb, the workmen's techniques and tools, units of measurement, KV huts, and workplaces / Andreas Dorn ; The component parts of KV royal tombs / Kent R. Weeks ; Collisions, abandonments, alterations, tomb commencements/pits, and other features in the Valley of the Kings / Lyla Pinch-Brock --. - Part IX: Destruction, desecration, and reuse. Damnatio memoriae in the Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson ; Usurpation and reuse of royal tombs / Richard H. Wilkinson ; Intrusive burials and caches / John H. Taylor -- Part X: Human remains from the KV and their study. Early study and the unwrapping of mummies / Rosalie David ; Modern biomedical studies / Rosalie David and Ryan Metcalfe ; Recent identity and relationship studies, including x-rays and DNA / Ryan Metcalfe -- Part XI: The administration of the KV in dynastic times. The temples of millions of years at western Thebes / Martina Ullmann ; Policing and site protection, guard posts, and enclosure walls / Carola Vogel ; Tomb robberies in the Valley of the Kings / Ogden Goelet -- Part XIII: The KV from the end of the New Kingdom to the late twentieth century. Late dynastic, Greco-Roman, and Christian times: post-New Kingdom graffiti / Filip Coppens ; The history of KV exploration prior to the late twentieth century / Joyce Tyldesley -- Part XIII: The KV in the late twentieth and the twenty-first century and beyond. Remote sensing in the Valley of the Kings and its hinterlands / Sarah H. Parcak and Gregory D. Mumford ; The search for other tombs / Stephen W. Cross ; Tomb recording : epigraphy, photography, digital imaging, and 3D surveys / Adam Lowe ; Conservation and flood protection / Michael Jones ; Tourism in the Valley of the Kings / Kent R. Weeks ; The Valley of the Kings in the lives of modern Egyptians : the people of Qurna / Kees Van der Spek -- Appendix.. - Part V: Royal tomb decoration. The technology of royal tomb decoration / Stephen Rickerby and Lori Wong ; Iconography, palaeography, decorative elements, distribution, and development of scenes / Heather L. McCarthy -- Part VI: Individual KV tombs. Royal tombs of the eighteenth dynasty / Catharine H. Roehrig ; Royal tombs of the nineteenth dynasty / Hartwig Altenmüller ; Royal tombs of the twentieth dynasty / Aidan Dodson ; Other tombs : queens and commoners in KV / Susanne Bickel -- Part VII: Contents of royal KV tombs. Sarcophagi / Aidan Dodson ; Canopies / Aidan Dodson ; Other tomb goods / Campbell Price -- Part VIII: Getting to the afterlife. Mortuary ritual in the Valley of the Kings / Alexandra von Lieven ; Symbolic aspects of royal tombs / Richard H. Wilkinson ; The royal funerary books : the subject matter of scenes and texts / Joshua A. Roberson --
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| ISBN | 9780199931637
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