The Tomb and Beyond: Burial Customs of Egyptian Officials

The tombs of Egypt are a rich source of information about Egyptian beliefs, practices, art, architecture, and daily life, with detailed reports and illustrations available. The tomb provided an everlasting earthly dwelling with a chapel and burial chamber, decorated with paintings, reliefs, and inscriptions. Kanawati describes and illustrates the principal forms and features of architecture and nature and subject matter of decoration and demonstrates how tomb design and decoration changed through time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2024
Publisher: Oxbow Books

The tombs, with their scenes, inscriptions, objects, and human remains, are our richest source of information for understanding Egyptian beliefs, practices, art, and architecture, as well as many aspects of daily life. Detailed, scholarly reports on individual cemeteries and tombs are abundant, but in this fully illustrated, more general work, reproduced in this facsimile edition, Kanawati provides an invaluable introduction to and overview of the key elements of Egyptian tombs from Predynastic to the Late Period. The Egyptian dead enjoyed a continued existence in both the Netherworld and the land of the living, with the individual possessing multiple entities that experienced different destinies after death. The tomb provided an everlasting earthly dwelling and consisted of a chapel above ground where the deceased's cult was maintained and offerings were presented, and a burial chamber for the body. Either or both could be richly decorated with paintings, reliefs, and inscriptions. Kanawati describes and illustrates the principal forms and features of architecture and nature and subject matter of decoration and demonstrates how tomb design and decoration changed through time.

Dimension: 298 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798888570876