RT Book
T1 Three hundred years of death: the Egyptian funerary industry in the Ptolemaic period
T2 Culture and history of the ancient Near East
JF Culture and history of the ancient Near East
A1 Cannata, Maria
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1688741704
AB "In Three Thousand Years of Death, The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the mummification, funeral, burial, and mortuary cult of the deceased, in Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC). The author gathers together and synthesises hundreds of the original textual sources, as well as the relevant archaeological sources, on the organisation of the funerary industry and its practitioners, revealing important regional and chronological variations overlooked in studies focusing on a limited geographical area, a shorter timeframe, or a smaller group of documents"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 626-718) and indexes
CN BL2450.F8
SN 9789004406797
K1 Ptolemaic dynasty : 305-30 B.C
K1 Funeral rites and ceremonies : Egypt