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This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (c.2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an interdisciplinary approach to the material - drawing on methods from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, including agency theory, the role of style, the reflexive relationship between people and landscape, and the nature of locality and community identity. A careful examination of the architecture, setting, and unique text and image programs of these tombs in context provides a foundation for considering how ancient Egyptian provincial communities bonded to each other, developed shared identities within the broader Egyptian world, and expressed these identities through their personal forms of visual and material culture.

Cemeteries --- Tombs --- Community life --- Group identity --- Visual communication --- Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graves --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- History --- Methodology --- Qubbat al-Hawāʼ Site (Egypt) --- Aswān (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Syeve (Egypt) --- Syene (Egypt) --- Syena (Egypt) --- Assuan (Egypt) --- Assouan (Egypt) --- Es-Suan (Egypt) --- Suan (Egypt) --- Essuan (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Kubbet el-Hawa Site (Egypt) --- Qubbah al-Hawa Site (Egypt) --- Qubbat el-Hawa Site (Egypt) --- Qubbet el-Hawa Site (Egypt) --- Antiquities