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Offers an up to date exploration of Egyptian society. The case
study format allows students to grasp the material, while also
teaching them how to analyse evidence and make judgements about
challenging social issues.
Offers an up to date exploration of Egyptian society. The case
study format allows students to grasp the material, while also
teaching them how to analyse evidence and make judgements about
challenging social issues.
This discussion will be centered on one ubiquitous and rather
simple Egyptian object type - the wooden container for the human
corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin - how
they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary
rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might
have been used again for another dead person. Using evidence from
Deir el Medina, we will move through time from the initial
agreement between the craftsman and the seller, to the construction
of the object by a carpenter, to the plastering and painting of the
coffin by a draftsman, to the sale of the object, to its ritual use
in funerary activities, to its deposit in a burial chamber, and,
briefly, to its possible reuse.
The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published
annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by
Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a
Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring
together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote
the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies
through the organization of meetings and conferences and through
the preparation of scholarly works for publication.
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