Lived religion; Archaeology; Ancient Egypt; Saqqara; Memphis; Necropolis; Cemetery; Tombs; Space; Burial; New Kingdom; Landscape Biography; Urban space; Practice of everyday life
Abstract :
[en] This paper focuses on the growth of the necropolis at Saqqara through the New Kingdom, c. 1539–1078 BC. It focuses on two separate cemeteries on the North Saqqara plateau: the Unas South Cemetery and the Teti Pyramid Cemetery. It investigates how the living, the “ordinary practitioners” of the city of the dead, experienced (and contributed to) this growing landscape through time. In so doing, the necropolis is treated as having city-like qualities.
Disciplines :
Archaeology
Author, co-author :
Staring, Nico ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie égyptienne
Language :
English
Title :
The Necropolis as Lived Space and a Work in Continuous Progress
Publication date :
2021
Main work title :
Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2020
Editor :
Bárta, Miroslav
Coppens, Filip
Krejčí, Jaromír
Publisher :
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
