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Book SynopsisThis book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 1 Individuals 1 Secondary Epigraphy and Interaction with Transfigured Dead: The Case of Nikauizezi, Saqqara Julia Hamilton 2 Decorated Coffin of King’s Ornament Setib Buried at Abusir Veronika Dulíková and Marie Peterková Hlouchová 3 Putting Intentions in Their Place: Materialising Meaning through Spatial Dynamics in Appeals to the Dead Angela McDonald 4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou : miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’ ge Thinite à l’Ancien Empire Jean-Pierre Pätznick 5 Osiris as Written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts César Guerra Méndez and Carlos Gracia Zamacona Part 2 Groups 6 Repeating the Ritual under the Ground: Performance of the Royal Object Ritual in the Middle Kingdom Seria Yamazaki 7 Dmjw, N(j)wtj‘Citizen’ in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the Context of the Social and Political Changes Occurred in Egypt at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BC Juan Carlos Moreno García 8 New Spells, New Compilations, and the Concept of Variability in Sequences of Pyramid and Coffin Texts Christelle Alvarez 9 Becoming Wind? Observations on Identity and Identification in the So-called Transformation Spells Anne Landborg Part 3 Tracers 10 Variation in the Graphical Form of the First-Person Stative Ending in the Coffin Texts Jorke Grotenhuis 11 (Re)connecting Artefacts and Thinking in the Afterlife: the Case of Funerary Wooden Models Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer 12 Variation as a Social Device: ‘Middle Egyptianisms’ in Old Kingdom Letters M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro 13 Problematising Linguistic Variation in the Coffin Texts: A Case-Study on Spell CT 335 Dina Serova 14 Occurrences of Grave Goods and Their Representations on Coffins: A Concept of Substitution? Elisabeth Kruck Index
