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Book SynopsisThe chapters of Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces discuss the degree of influence that provincial developments played in reshaping the Egyptian state and culture during the Middle Kingdom. Contributors to the volume are Egyptologists from around the world who have developed their research following a conference held at the University of Jaén in Spain.
Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphics and Tables Introduction Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Antonio J. Morales 1 The Funerary Chambers of Sarenput II and the Destruction of His Outer Coffin José M. Alba Gómez 2 Regional Differences in Pottery Repertoires: Two Case Studies of Early and Late Middle Kingdom Ceramic Assemblages Bettina Bader 3 The “Prince’s Court Is like a Common Fountain”: Middle Kingdom Royal Patronage in the Light of a Modern Sociological Concept Martina Bardonova 4 Sinuhe: Popular Hero, Court Politics, and the Royal Paradigm Miroslav Bárta and Jiří Janák 5 A Wood Workshop at Meir at the Beginning of the Middle Kingdom: The Case of the Wooden Models Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer 6 The Burial in Qubbet el-Hawa of a Woman Named Sattjeni Luisa M. García González 7 Some Remarks on a Multidimensional Approach to the Unique Spells of the Coffin Texts Carlos Gracia Zamacona 8 The Non-use of Titles in the Early Middle Kingdom Wolfram Grajetzki 9 “Co-regencies” in the First Upper Egyptian Nome during the Twelfth Dynasty Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León 10 The Issue of Residence and Periphery in the Middle Kingdom: Surveying the Delta Eva Lange-Athinodorou 11 The Craft of the Non-mechanically Reproducible: Targeting Centres of Faience Figurine Production in 1800–1650 BC Egypt Gianluca Miniaci 12 Opening the Vision of Osiris Sarenput: A Contextual and Typological Analysis of the Coffin of Sarenput the Younger from Qubbet el-Hawa Antonio J. Morales 13 Elite Tombs at the Residence: The Decoration and Design of Twelfth Dynasty Tomb Chapels and Mastabas at Lisht and Dahshur Adela Oppenheim 14 Middle Kingdom Settlement Geography at the First Cataract Cornelius von Pilgrim 15 Tombs and Objects of the Middle Kingdom in the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III in Luxor Myriam Seco Álvarez and Javier Martínez Babón 16 The Holders of the Titles šmsw nswt and šmsw pr-ꜥꜣ Danijela Stefanović 17 Djoser’s Complex as a Source of Inspiration for the Decoration of Private Coffins in the Middle Kingdom Harco Willems Index
