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The proceedings of this symposium offer contributions by leading experts working on the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, i.e., the texts written on coffins of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1750 B.C.). The volume provides a cross-section of current research activities in this field of study. Apart from progress reports on lexicographical and other projects, the volume contains presentations of 'new' material (e.g. from Lisht or Qâw al-Kabîr), typological assessments of coffin material, text-critical studies of groups of spells, grammatical studies, and discussions of theological and ritual aspects of the texts. The volume is of interest to Egyptologists and historians of religion.

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This is the first volume of the final reports of the Mission of the K.U.Leuven in Dayr al-Barsha (Middle Egypt). It contains the publication (in colour photographs and line drawings in colour) of three small tombs probably dated immediately after the Unification of Egypt in the reign of pharaoh Mentuhotep II (XIth Dynasty). After an introduction on the long-term research strategy of the Dayr al-Barsha project it first offers an account of the setting of the tombs and of earlier research carried out there. This is followed by a detailed account of each of the three monuments, including a detailed philological commentary of the texts. These include two autobiographical inscriptions, of which one has received little attention, while the other is here published in full for the first time. The scant archaeological remains found in the tombs are also dealt with in detail. The two tombs are contemporary with that of the nomarch Ahanakht I, and offers a rare insight into the functioning of a nomarchal court in the early Middle Kingdom. The last chapter offers an analysis of this, and also advances a hypothesis on the way king Mentuhotep succeeded in integrating the Middle Egyptian provincial elites into the newly united kingdom.

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Les dernieres annees il y a eu plusieurs expositions concernant l'Egypte romaine. Leur attention s'etait surtout fixee sur les objets funeraires, comme les masques funeraires, ou, au sens plus large, sur l'art. Le but de cette exposition est tout autre. Il s'agit de fournir une idee concernant la vie dans l'Egypte romaine, telle qu'elle est decrite par les papyrus et les ostraca, par les urbanisations et les temples. Comment vivent les Egyptiens ? Comment gagnent-ils leur vie et quelles taxes doivent-ils payer ? Comment s'habillent-ils et comment decorent-ils leur maison ? Quelle influence exercent les cultures grecque et romaine sur la culture traditionnelle egyptienne ? Comment predit-on l'avenir et quel role jouent les temples ? Telles sont les questions que nous avions en tete en realisant cette exposition et en ecrivant ce catalogue. Ce catalogue comprend deux parties. La premiere donne un apercu de l'histoire, l'administration, l'economie, la vie quotidienne et la religion de l'Egypte romaine. La seconde partie consiste en un catalogue, avec un commentaire extensif des objets exposes, oA' les memes themes sont traites dans un ordre quelque peu different. Chaque description est suivie d'une bibliographie, comprenant avant tout les references aux publications anterieures de l'objet, mais egalement une litterature de fond, qui nous sembla aussi utile.

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