A Family of Thirteenth Dynasty High Officials: New Evidence from South Abydos

Cahail, Kevin M.

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“…4). A similar erasure of human faces during royal reuse took place in the Second Intermediate Period at South Abydos (Cahail 2014, 206). Damnatio memoriae was not uncommon in ancient Egyptian royal contexts, but the fact that kings’ names were largely left intact (with an exception of the name and titulary of Djedkare-Isesi: see Jánosi 2016, 18–19, pls.…”

Section: The Contested Case Of Amenemhat Imentioning

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Silva¹

2023

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Architectural reuse was common in ancient Egypt. Modern interpretations of this practice, particularly in royal contexts, usually ascribe it either a practical or ideological function, only rarely considering it possible that different motivations were involved. This type of approach is particularly true for the reuse of Old Kingdom blocks by the Middle Kingdom king Amenemhat I in his pyramid at Lisht, a case often classified as solely utilitarian. However, an approach that prioritizes not only the ancient Egyptian worldview and royal ideology, but also how this case of reuse fits into cross-cultural considerations of monumentality, demonstrates the necessity to look at this practice more holistically. This study focuses in particular on the possibility that the transportation of reused materials by Amenemhat I was a spectacle of construction used to showcase the king's legitimacy and authority at the start of a new dynasty.

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Silva¹

2023

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Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt

Olabarria

2020

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ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND EGYPTOLOGYIn the preface of Egyptology and the Social Sciences, Kent Weeks (1979: v) wrote: we consider extremely encouraging the fact that Egyptologists are now, after half a century of reluctance, beginning to approach such fields as anthropology for ideas, while anthropologists are also beginning to realize that, beneath Egyptology's staid and sometimes formidable exterior, there lies a wealth of data of great value for their studies.In the almost forty years since that publication, the dialogue he hinted at has not been as lively as he anticipated. Many authors have successfully incorporated theoretical models from the social sciences into Egyptology (Baines 2011: 576-8), but very few of those proposals have been followed by engaged discussions in the literature. 1 Whether this is due to discomfort with rapidly changing disciplines (Weeks 1979: 21) or to mistrust of studies that go beyond a narrowly evidential basis (Baines 2011: 575), many Egyptologists remain reluctant to integrate theoretical approaches into their work. In contrast, in this book I advocate that a productive dialogue between Egyptology, anthropology and archaeology is not only possible but necessary. The rich dataset provided by Egyptology could be invaluable for anthropologists and archaeologists, while the methods and theoretical approaches of the latter disciplines may offer fresh insights into Egyptian material.

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Ancient Egyptian Kinship in Context

Olabarria

2020

Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt

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A Family of Thirteenth Dynasty High Officials: New Evidence from South Abydos

Cited by 17 publications

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Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Out of Ruins: Contextualizing an Ancient Egyptian Spectacle of Architectural Reuse

Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Kinship in Context

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