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"Yellow" Coffins from Thebes: Recording and decoding complexity in Egyptian funerary arts (21st - 22nd Dynasties)

"Yellow" Coffins from Thebes: Recording and decoding complexity in Egyptian funerary arts (21st - 22nd Dynasties)

Paperback

Series: International, Book 3010

ArchaeologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1407357441
ISBN13: 9781407357447
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Nov 26 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.78
Height: 0.67 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

This volume proposes a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of yellow coffins, which is one of the most extensive corpus of funerary objects from Ancient Egypt, and the most complex in terms of decoration. It presents a synthetic view on Egyptian coffin decoration during the II millennium B.C. together with in-depth examination of a sample of nine previously unpublished burial assemblages. Dating from the 21st-22nd Dynasties, these objects were chosen to showcase the stages of development in coffin decoration detected in the yellow corpus, as well as variations in style and layout. A new formal typology of this corpus is proposed, allowing a better understanding of the dynamics of coffin decoration in Theban workshops.

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