Late Old Kingdom private - don't forget you can propose your own if you don't like what's here!
Reading Presentations: Peter Johnson ([email protected]) and Julia([email protected])
Tomb of Ti at Saqqara (overview of architecture and pick two scenes to concentrate on) - Oren
I'm including my sources in the attachment I'm posting with my short description and photos.
Tomb of Ptahshepses at Abusir-Amanda
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
Dodson, Aidan and Ikram, Salima. The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: royal and private sepulchers from the early dynastic period to the Romans. London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.
The Met book and Dodson and Ikram's were by far the most detailed accounts of the tomb of Ptahshepses and was crucial to developing my presentation. The Met book was especially descriptive and contained a wealth of information on the tomb, including reliefs, the different building stages of the mastaba, new innovations in private tombs that were taken from royal funerary architecture, and the general layout of the tomb. Dodson and Ikram was more broad, relating it to other private tombs of the 5th dynasty (such as Ti's and Kagemni's) and how this trend of absorbing royal architecture into private burials developed in the later Old Kingdom.
For more specific studies on different elements of the tomb I took a look at these sources:
Verner, Miroslav. The Mastaba of Ptahshepses: reliefs. Prague: Charles University, 1977. Prague : Charles University, 1976.
Krejčí, Jaromír. Abusir XI: the architecture of the mastaba of Ptahshepses. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2009
Charvát, Peter. The pottery: the mastaba of Ptahshepses. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1981.
Verner, Miroslav. Abusir II: Baugraffiti der Ptahschepses-Mastaba. Prague: Universitas Carolina Pragensis, 1992.
There has been a Czech team working on the mastaba and some of the publications on the tomb are in German, (especially those written by Miroslav Verner) but these sources were great for looking with a more critical eye at the specific details of the tomb itself rather than the broad sweeping descriptions that were presented by the Met book. The specific studies were very useful in fleshing out the details of my presentation while the general sources provided the backbone.
Scribal statue- Kathryn
Pictures:
The Louvre ‘seated scribe’ pictures.pptx
Text:
Bibliography:
Ziegler, Christiane. 2002. Le scribe accroupi. Paris
Small book on the seated Louvre scribe. Has many good pictures with detailed description and lots of background information on scribe statues in general, Mariette's excavations and the problem of the scribe's provenance. Spends a long time arguing for a fourth dynasty date for the statue. Not sure I agree with her (see text above) and I'm sure that her dating grounds are nowhere near good enough to print the date as fourth dynasty in the catalogue below.
Ziegler, ed. 1997. Les statues egyptiennes de l'Ancien Empire. Paris
Catalogue of all the OK statuary in the Louvre. Good, large pictures though mostly in black and white. No new information in addition to source above on the seated scribe but plenty of good comparative material with lots of detail in the catalogue entries. Datings could be problematic- see above.
Scott, Gerry D. 1989. The History and Development of the Ancient Egyptian Scribe Statue. New Haven.
PhD dissertation on scribal statues. First chapter is on Old Kingdom examples. Very useful for the broad picture it gives and for the fact that it lists all known scribal statues though given that he is trying to show development over time and characteristics of scribal statues in particular dynasties, I think he should have gone in to far more detail about how we know the date of a lot of the pieces. He speaks about a lot of examples which were not excavated as if we knew a firm date for them- I'm not so sure this is the case.
Mariette, Auguste. 1976. Les mastabas de l'ancient empire. Hildesheim.
Copied handwritten excavation notes. It's not an excavation report as we know it! No index or contents- if you can find the section on the discovery of the scribe statue and associated cache it takes up only half a page.
Great interactive website on the seated scribe from the Louvre's website. In English. No new information but great panoramic videos complete with voiceover!
Servant statuettes - pick no more than 4
2 family group statues - compare and contrast - Emily
"Sheikh el-Beled" - wooden statue - Oliver
A Naga ed-Der tomb -
Reisner
Baines
Wooden statues of Metjetji - Mike Wooden statues of Metjetji.doc
Harvey, Wooden Statues of the Old Kingdom - This introduction to this book offered more background about wooden statuary in the Old Kingdom in general rather than just the late Old Kingdom. The rest of the book is filled with diagrams, pictures, and other information that is good for comparison but otherwise doesn't specifically relate to Metjetji's statues.
Harvey, Continuity or collapse. Wooden statues from the end of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period from The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology: Proceedings of the Conference - This article didn't actually offer much useful information. It analyzed a number of wooden statues from the period and then presented charts tallying up how many statues had each style of hair, each kind of dress, and each specific way of holding their arms. Any conclusions made here though were better described in the other sources.
Russman, A Second Style in Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom - This article discusses the statues of Metjetji as well as others to assert that there was a deliberate second style of Old Kingdom art that arose in the sixth Dynasty. Russman uses many examples to back up her claims and talks about both royal and private statuary of the Sixth Dynasty as well as the statuary leading up to and after this second style emerged.
Old Kingdom tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan-
Qar tomb complex - Müge
Barta in Old Kingdom Art and Architecture - text, images and bibliography are all in the word document below.
