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Author Donker van Heel, K. (Koenraad), author.

Title Dealing with the dead in ancient Egypt : the funerary business of Petebaste / Koenraad Donker van Heel
Published Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021

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Contents The texts -- Previous study of the texts -- The choachyte Petebaste -- A family of clients -- So why was hieratic abnormal? -- Just a captive from Gaza -- Are you buying or leasing this man? -- What is this document doing here? -- Burying your grandparents -- The trial that backfired -- Did Petebaste own a field? -- Two accounts of a single funeral -- The second account -- Epilogue
Summary "Petebaste son of Peteamunip, the choachyte, or water-pourer, lived during the first half of the seventh century BCE in the reigns of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty Kushite kings Shabaka and Taharqa and was responsible for the comfortable and carefree afterlife of his deceased clients by bringing their weekly libations. But Petebaste was also responsible for a wide range of other activities--he provided a tomb to the family of the deceased, managed the costs of the personnel and commodities, and took care of all necessary paperwork, while also tending to the gruesome preparation of the mortal remains of the deceased. Drawing on an archive of eight abnormal hieratic papyri in the Louvre that deal specifically with the affairs of a single family, Donker van Heel takes a deep dive into the business dealings of this Theban mortuary priest. In intimate detail, he illuminates the final stage of the embalming and coffining process of a woman called Taperet ('Mrs. Seedcorn') on the night before she would be taken from the embalming workshop to her final resting place, providing fascinating insight into the practical day-to-day aspects of funerary practices in ancient Egypt"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Undertakers and undertaking -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city)
Death care industry -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city)
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Egypt
Family archives -- Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city)
Egyptian language -- Papyri, Hieratic.
HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt
Antiquities
Civilization
Death care industry
Egyptian language
Family archives
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Undertakers and undertaking
SUBJECT Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Social life and customs
Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) -- Social conditions
Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041285
Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041266
Egypt -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041263
Subject Egypt
Egypt -- Thebes (Extinct city)
Genre/Form History
Papyri, Hieratic
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020040702
ISBN 9781649030306
1649030304
1649030290
9781649030290
Other Titles Funerary business of Petebaste