Corpus of Reliefs of the New Kingdom from the Memphite Necropolis and Lower Egypt: Volume 1 (Chatham House Papers) 1

One of the remarkable anomalies of Egyptian History is that the source material for the study of one of the country's principal settlements sites and one of the greatest cities of antiquity-Memphis-is comparatively scarce. The Memphite cemeteries, however, have yielded up masses of material, particularly for the Archaic Period and the Old Kingdom. In the New Kingdom, with which we are concerned in this volume, Memphis was a city of immense administrative and cultural importance, as well as being the seat of the royal court, and there seems little reason to doubt that many of the great officials and courtiers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and to some extent the Twentieth Dynasties were buried in Saqqara, the Memphite necropolis. One of the remarkable anomalies of Egyptian History is that the source material for the study of one of the country’s principal settlements sites and one of the greatest cities of antiquity-Memphis-is comparatively scarce. The Memphite cemeteries, howeve Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Preface 10 Sources of Photographic Plates 11 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations and Journals Cited 14 Introduction 18 Provenance of the Reliefs, Etc. 21 The Catalogue 24 Notes 61 The Plates 65 Indexes 154 Concordance of Museum and Collection Numbers and Present Catalogue 156 Index of Personal Names 159 Index of Titles, Epithets, Administrative Departments, Etc. 161 Index of Deities and Epithets of Deities 164 General Index 166 Egyptian Names Etc. 169 Concordance;,Titles;,Epithets;,Administrative,Departments Concordance,Titles,Epithets,Administrative Departments