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This volume is the first joint publication of the members of the
American-Egyptian mission South Asasif Conservation Project,
working under the auspices of the State Ministry for Antiquities
and Supreme Council of Antiquities, and directed by the editor. The
Project is dedicated to the clearing, restoration, and
reconstruction of the tombs of Karabasken (TT 391) and Karakhamun
(TT 223) of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, and the tomb of Irtieru (TT
390) of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, on the West Bank of Luxor.
Essays by the experts involved in the excavations and analysis
cover the history of the Kushite ruling dynasties in Egypt and the
hierarchy of Kushite society, the history of the South Asasif
Necropolis and its discovery, the architecture and textual and
decorative programs of the tombs, and the finds of burial
equipment, pottery, and animal bones.
This volume is the second joint publication of the members of the
American-Egyptian archaeological team South Asasif Conservation
Project, working under the auspices of the Ministry of State for
Antiquities and directed by the editor. The Project is dedicated to
the clearing, restoration, and reconstruction of the tombs of
Karabasken (TT 391) and Karakhamun (TT 223) of the Twenty-fifth
Dynasty, and the tomb of Irtieru (TT 390) of the Twenty-sixth
Dynasty, on the West Bank of Luxor. This volume will cover the next
three seasons of the work of the Project from 2012 to 2014. Essays
by the experts involved in the work of the Project concentrate on
new archaeological finds, reconstruction of the tombs' decoration
and introduction of the high officials who usurped the tombs of
Karakhamun and Karabasken in the Twenty Sixth Dynasty. The volume
focuses particularly on the reconstruction of the ritual of the
Hours of the Day and Night and BD 125 and 32 in the tomb of
Karakhamun, the textual program of the tomb of Karabasken, as well
as Coptic ostraca, faience objects, pottery, and animal bones found
in the necropolis.Contributors: Julia Budka, Mansour Bureik,
Diethelm Eigner, Erhart Graefe, Kenneth Griffin, Salima Ikram,
Matthias Muller, Paul Nicholson, Elena Pischikova, Miguel Molinero
Polo Elena Pischikova is the director of the American-Egyptian
South Asasif Conservation Project. She is currently a research
scholar at the American University in Cairo, and teaches at
Fairfield University in Connecticut. She is the author of Tombs of
the South Asasif Necropolis: Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and
Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (AUC Press, 2013).
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