Three Hundred Years of Death
Download or Read eBook Three Hundred Years of Death PDF written by Maria Cannata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Maria Cannata |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 840 |
| Release | : 2020-04-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789004406803 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9004406808 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Three Hundred Years of Death by : Maria Cannata
Book excerpt: In Three Hundred 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.
