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Egyptian gold jewellery : with a catalogue of the collection of gold objects in the Egyptian department of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.
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ISBN: 9782503553672 2503553672 Year: 2015 Volume: 12 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,


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Demotic papyri from the Memphite Necropolis (P. Dem. Memphis) : in the collections of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the British Museum and the Hermitage Museum
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ISBN: 9782503530574 9782503533520 Year: 2009 Volume: 5 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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The Demotic texts in these volumes come from the archives of the funerary-workers of the Memphis Necropolis. The papyri date to the Ptolemaic Period and were discovered early in the 19th century. The first part provides an introduction to the archives and to the funerary-workers and their families. The topography of the Necropolis is discussed and the different types of tomb structures and funerary income are examined. The second part contains full editions of and commentaries on nine of the papyri, most of which are either unpublished or only available in summary and now-out-of-date editions. Seven of the texts are kept in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden; one is in the British Museum and another in the Hermitage. Full photographs of each papyrus are provided and detailed indexes complete the publication.


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The tomb of Tia and Tia : a royal monument of the Ramesside period in the Memphite necropolis
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ISBN: 0856981214 Year: 1997 Volume: 58 Publisher: London : Egypt Exploration Society,


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The Tomb of Meryneith at Saqqara
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ISBN: 9782503548760 2503548768 Year: 2014 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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This funerary monument of a high Memphite official was discovered by a joint expedition of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University in 2001. Meryneith started his career as steward of the Memphite temple of the sun god Aten during the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten. During midlife, he may have joined the court set up by the Pharaoh at the new capital at Amarna. He ended his career under Tutankhamun as high-priest of the Aten in the Memphite temple again. Thereby, the importance of the tomb of Meryneith lies in the fact that for the first time it allows us to witness various stages in the rise and fall of the Amarna heresy from a Memphite point of view. Thus the tomb-owner was apparently forced to change his name from Meryneith - with its reference to the now proscribed goddess Neith - into Meryre. Several other variants of his name and some additional titles came to light, revealing various stages in his career. These stages mirror the ideological developments of the Amarna Period and its immediate aftermath, which are further illustrated by the different styles of the decoration of the tomb. This proved to be remarkably well preserved and consists of both wall-reliefs and paintings on mud plaster. Thanks to the evidence of the inscriptions, it can be observed how the tomb was built and decorated in various stages, each characterized by a marked change in style and iconography. The present report includes a full description of these wall scenes, as well as chapters on the career of the tomb-owner, on the double statue of Meryneith and his wife found in one of the west chapels, and on the objects, pottery, and skeletal material found in the course of the excavations.

The tomb of Pay and Raia at Saqqara
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ISBN: 0856981648 9780856981647 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden : London : National Museum of Antiquities Leiden Egypt Exploration Society,


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The tombs of three Memphite officials : Ramose, Khay and Pabes

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The tombs of Ptahemwia and Sethnakht at Saqqara
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ISBN: 9088908117 9789088908118 9088908109 9789088908101 9789088908095 9088908095 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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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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