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The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara (Hardcover)
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The Tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara (Hardcover)
Series: PALMA, 22
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The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and
2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of
Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of
the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his
successor Tutankhamun. They are valuable additions to the growing
corpus of funerary architecture from the Memphite cemeteries, yet
they are quite different. Ptahemwia was a royal butler, presumably
in the Memphite palace. The wall-reliefs and inscriptions of his
tomb illustrate aspects of his professional life. Yet the career of
the tomb-owner preserves some mysteries, such as the assumed change
of his name, his potential foreign origins, and the reason why his
tomb could not be finished according to plan. Sethnakht is an even
more elusive person. This simple scribe of the temple of Ptah can
hardly have been the main owner of the tomb next to Ptahemwia’s,
which was started in the same lavish style and then remained
undecorated. There are reasons to assume that Sethnakht was just
one of the relatives of the owner, who – like Ptahemwia – seems
to have suffered from the political vicissitudes of the period.
This publication presents the results of the recent excavations,
with an introduction on the biographical data of the tomb owners
followed by detailed discussions of the tomb architecture and wall
decorations, as well as the objects, pottery, and skeletal material
found in the area. Thus it is aimed at an audience of professional
readers with an interest in funerary archaeology.
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