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Egypt in the First Intermediate Period

The History and Chronologyof its False Doors and Stelae

Melanie Pitkin

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English
Golden House Publications
30 June 2023
This volume provides a detailed study of false doors and funerary stelae from the First Intermediate Period, providing new historical and chronological insights. Five dating criteria are applied to 677 false doors and stelae. The criteria include: (1) the hybrid false door stela; (2) the representation of the wedjat eyes; (3) mutilated and suppressed hieroglyphs; (4) the representation of the owner holding a bow and arrows and, (5) the writing of the 'revered one' ( jmAxw and its variants). The study looks at Egypt during the First Intermediate Period on a national level, rather than as a limited group of nomes, showing how particular styles, iconographic peculiarities and political and religious ideologies 'travelled' between nomes or, perhaps, remained entirely local. The study also establishes a relative dating typology for particular groupings of false doors and stelae, providing a new chronological benchmark for dating other objects and events of the time.

50 illustrations

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Imprint:   Golden House Publications
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Height: 297mm,  Width: 210mm, 
ISBN:   9781906137816
ISBN 10:   1906137811
Series:   Middle Kingdom Studies
Pages:   384
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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