Questions for Middle Kingdom Private.doc
Meketre models and comparanda - Emily
Winlock Models of daily life in ancient Egypt, from the tomb of Meket-Re at Thebes (1955)
Roehrig, Catharine H. "Life along the Nile: Three Egyptians of Ancient Thebes." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 60, no. 1 (Summer, 2002).
Arnold, Dorothea. "Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 26 (1991).
MMA Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: "Scribes from Meketre's model granary." http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/20.3.11
MMA Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: "Bakers and Brewers from Meketre's model bakery." http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/20.3.12
Khnumhotep tomb at Beni Hassan - Kathryn
Kamrin The Cosmos of Khnumhotep II (I have the library's copy of this book and can lend it out as long as I get it back when the presentation's done! Emily)
Qau el-Kebir nomarch's tombs - Oren
D'Amicone in Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin
--This source is short but excellent, providing a solid overview of the historical context of these monuments, treating some of the standout finds housed by the Museo Egizio, and addressing the tombs of the nomarchs themselves. Unfortunately, most of the sources related to these monuments are written in Italian.
Petrie Antaeopolis, The Tombs of Qau
-- The Plates, photos, and archaeological information is hugely helpful, if not as extensive as I might prefer. However, this is a valuable source, and absolutely necessary for the study of the tombs of these three nomarchs. Be warned: the Historical Conclusions chapter is totally outdated.
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/qau/elkebir.html
This website was interesting if not all that useful, but it does have some nice images and interesting 3D reconstructions of these tomb complexes.
Aswan sanctuary of Heqaib-Amanda
Habachi Elephantine IV: The Sanctuary of Heqaib vol. 1 and vol. 2
Labib Habachi's study on the Sanctuary of Heqaib was invaluable to my presentation and the source for most of my information and all of my pictures for the presentation. Surpisingly enough there isn't much out there that is dedicated to the study of this sanctuary, but these two volumes (the first is the information, including great info on specific pieces and places at the sanctuary, the second has the pictures) presented by the archaeologist who discovered the sanctuary and also worked on his tomb at Qubbet el Hawa was without a doubt the best that I could hope for and the definitive source still on the sanctuary of Heqaib at Elephantine. The author also includes a hypothesis as to why he was deified at all and when this could have happened, which I found most enlightening.
Grajetzki, Wolfram. The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: the history, archaeology, and society. 2006.
This source was useful for the background information on some of the officials who dedicated items at the sanctuary, as well as discussing various family trees that are known to us from the archaeological evidence at the sanctuary of Heqaib. In some cases the records from the sanctuary are the only known attestations of an individual's role as governor of Elephantine.
Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt
Smith, William Stevenson. Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt.
These two sources provided mainly basic background information on the sanctuary, but Smith did briefly discuss some of the statuary found at the site and how the nobles seemingly tried to mimic royal styles with their own statues at Aswan. Not a lot on the sanctuary or on Heqaib himself, but little else was found outside of Grajetzki and Habachi.
Statues of Hapi-djefa and Sennuwy from Kerma context is important here and should be addressed, but focus more on the statues as art and particularly on private women's statues in the MK - Peter
Reisner Kerma I-III
for contextual analysis: Gill and Padgham in the Annual of the British School at Athens 2005 (JSTOR)
Two private stelae, at least one from Abydos - Julia
Simpson Terrace of the Great God
Two block statues for comparison
Bothmer has written about a few of these
"magic wands" and faience hippos - Müge Muge - Magic Wands notes.docx
Bothmer in Bulletin of the MFA no. 278 (1951)
Discusses one of the faience hippos in detail. Iconography and symbolism are addressed through a discussion of the decoration on the hippo.
Friedman, F. D. 1998. Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. London: Thames and Hudson.
This exhibition catalogue has good introductory essays for the use and meanings of faience in ancient Egypt, good visual material and decent catalogue entries.
Wegner, J. 2009. “A Decorated Birth-Brick from South Abydos: New Evidence on Childbirth and Birth Magic in the Middle Kingdom.” In D. P. Silverman, W.K. Simpson, and J.Wegner (eds.) Archaism and Innovation: Studies in the Culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt. New Haven: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
A very detailed discussion of Middle Kingdom rituals relating to childbirth and divine protection of the child. Although the chapter concentrates explicitly on a birth-brick from Abydos (which is the first archaeological evidence of its type), Wegner contextualizes the find within the broader context of house-hold religion, thus giving invaluable information about magic wands.
Altenmüller, H. 1965. Die Apotropaia und die Götter Mittelägyptens: Eine Typologische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung der sog. ‘Zaubermesser’ des Mittleren Reiches. PhD Dissertation.
Although I was not able to get a hold of this book/dissertation, it appears to be the basic work for any study of the apotropaia of the Middle Kingdom Egypt, and should be cited here even briefly.
Overview of Middle Kingdom coffins (but leave out Bersha 10a, which we've looked at already) - Oliver
Willems Chests of Life
