توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
«ماریا کاناتا در سه هزار سال مرگ، صنعت تشییع جنازه مصر در دوره بطلمیوسی، بررسی مفصلی از سازماندهی گورستان ها و کارگران تشییع جنازه و همچنین نقش آنها در جنبه های عملی مومیایی، تشییع جنازه، تدفین ارائه می دهد. و کیش مرده در مصر بطلمیوسی (332-30 قبل از میلاد) نویسنده صدها منبع متنی اصلی و همچنین منابع باستان شناسی مربوطه را در مورد سازماندهی صنعت تشییع جنازه و دست اندرکاران آن گردآوری کرده است. آشکار کردن تغییرات مهم منطقهای و زمانی که در مطالعات متمرکز بر یک منطقه جغرافیایی محدود، یک بازه زمانی کوتاهتر یا گروه کوچکتری از اسناد نادیده گرفته شده است.
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Tables, Figures and Plates
Illustration Credits
Abbreviations
Outline of Egyptian Chronology
Introduction
1. Setting the Scene
2. Previous Scholarship on the Subject
3. Scope and Organisation of the Book
4. Notes on the Conventions and Abbreviations Used
Part 1. The Organisation of the Necropolis and Its Funerary Priests
Chapter 1. The Theban Necropolis
1. The Overseer of the Necropolis
2. The Lesonis
3. The Steward
4. Choachytes
5. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Choachytes
6. Embalmers
7. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Embalmers
8. Other Funerary Priests
Chapter 2. The Edfu Necropolis
1. The Overseer of the Necropolis and the Lesonis
2. Choachytes and Lector-Priests
3. Territorial Jurisdiction of Edfu Necropolis Workers
Chapter 3. The Memphite necropolis
1. The Overseer of the necropolis
2. God’s Seal-Bearers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes
3. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Memphite Funerary Priests
Chapter 4. The Hawara Necropolis
1. The Overseer of the God’s Seal-Bearers and Embalmers
2. God’s Seal-Bearers (and) Embalmers as Lector-Priests and Choachytes
3. Other Funerary Priests
4. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Hawara Funerary Priests
5. The Organisation of the Hawara Necropolis
Chapter 5. The Necropolises in Middle Egypt
1. The Head of the Necropolis
2. Lector-Priests and Embalmers
3. Man of the Necropolis
4. Seal-Bearer Who Attends the God
5. God’s Seal-Bearers
6. Necrotaphoi
7. Territorial Jurisdiction of the Funerary Priests in Middle Egypt
Chapter 6. Female Funerary priests
1. Choachytes
2. Embalmers
Chapter 7. Services, Income and Taxation of Funerary Priests
1. Definition of the Services Performed by Funerary Priests
2. Different Types of Revenues
3. Income of Lector-Priests and Embalmers
4. Personal and Professional Taxation, Contributions and Exemptions
5. Other Economic Activities of the Funerary Priests
Chapter 8. Priestly Associations
1. Association of Theban Choachytes
2. Association of Theban Lector Priests
3. Association of Memphite Mortuary Priests
4. Associations of Mortuary Priests in the Fayum
5. Associations of Mortuary Priests in Middle Egypt
Chapter 9. The Funerary Priests and Their Social Context
1. Place of Residence of the Funerary Priests
2. The Funerary Priests and Their Families
Part 2. Death, Mummification and Burial
Chapter 10. Death
1. The Mourning Period
2. Arranging for the Services of Funerary Priests
3. Transport of the Deceased to the Necropolis
Chapter 11. Mummification
1. The Embalming Place: the pr-nfr and the wꜥb.t
2. Arranging for the Mummification of the Deceased
3. The Mummification Process: Stages, Rituals and Materials
4. Funerary Priests Involved in the Mummification Process
Chapter 12. Burial
1. Role of the Funerary Priests Following the Mummification Process
2. Funeral and Burial
3. The Lexicology of the Entombment
4. Delayed Burial
5. Mortuary Cult
Chapter 13. Funerary Expenses
1. Mummification Materials and Burial Equipment: Production, Acquisition and Provision
2. Provision of Mummification Materials and Burial Equipment
3. Burial Taxes
4. Cost and Payment of the ‘Mummification and Burial’
Chapter 14. The Deceased
1. The Living and the Dead
2. Epithets of the Dead
3. Social Status and Ethnic Background of the Deceased
Part 3. Necropolises, Tombs and Burials
Chapter 15. Necropolises
1. Location of Burial Grounds
2. Funerary Landscape: Topographical Textual Notes
3. God’s Acre: Possession, Taxation and Acquisition of Plots and Tombs
Chapter 16. Tombs
1. The Lexicography of Tombs’ Typology
2. Tombs’ Typology: Textual and Archaeological Evidence
3. Building a New Tomb
4. Using an Existing Tomb
5. Collective Tombs
Chapter 17. Burials
1. Select Survey of Inhumations’ Typology
Part 4. Discussion and Conclusion
Chapter 18. Discussion and Conclusion
1. The Organisation of the Necropolis and Its Funerary Priests
2. Death, Mummification and Burial
3. Necropolises, Tombs and Burials
Appendix 1. Palaeographical and Orthographical Analysis of the Root ḳs
Appendix 2. P. Florence 3667 (111BC)
Appendix 3. Tables
Bibliography
List of the Main Primary Sources Analysed (Arranged by Necropolis and Category)
Bibliographical Details of the Primary Sources Cited (Arranged Alphabetically and by Museums’ Inventory Number)
List of Personal Names
List of Toponyms Mentioned
Select Index of Words
Plates
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
"In Three Thousand Years of Death, The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the mummification, funeral, burial, and mortuary cult of the deceased, in Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC). The author gathers together and synthesises hundreds of the original textual sources, as well as the relevant archaeological sources, on the organisation of the funerary industry and its practitioners, revealing important regional and chronological variations overlooked in studies focusing on a limited geographical area, a shorter timeframe, or a smaller group of documents"--