King Seneb-Kay's Tomb and the Necropolis of a Lost Dynasty at Abydos / / Kevin Cahail, Josef Wegner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Wegner, Josef,; Cahail, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 318 figs (color TBD), 9 tables

This volume is the publication and analysis of the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE), and a cemetery of associated tombs at Abydos, all attributable to a group of kings of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. The tomb of Seneb-Kay has provided the first known king's tomb of pharaonic Egypt that included decorated imagery in the burial chamber. That evidence, presented in full-color and discussed in detail in the volume, allows us to identify this previously unknown ruler along with a group of seven similar tombs that can be attributed to an Upper Egyptian Dynasty that survived for approximately half a century during a period of pronounced territorial fragmentation in the Nile Valley.The book examines the architecture and artifacts associated with these tombs as well as presents an osteological analysis of the bodies of Seneb-Kay and the other anonymous individuals buried at South Abydos. Seneb-Kay's skeletonized mummy was recovered inside his tomb and provides a rare opportunity to examine the body of a king of this era. He is the earliest substantially preserved body of an Egyptian king to survive in the archaeological record, and the first known Egyptian pharaoh whose skeletal remains show that he died in battle. The analysis of his death in a military encounter, along with insights from the other skeletal remains indicates a line of kings whose rise to power was associated with their social background as members of the military elite. The book examines the wider implications of these bodies in terms of the pronounced militarization of society in the Second Intermediate Period.Seneb-Kay's tomb has also provided extensive evidence, through its use of reused blocks bearing decoration, of earlier elite and royal monuments at Abydos. The combination of evidence provides a new archaeological and historical window into the political situation that defined Egypt's Second Intermediate Period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Place Names and Terms -- Part 1: The Tomb of King Woseribre Seneb-Kay -- Introduction -- 1. Excavation And Architecture of the Tomb of Seneb-Kay -- 2. The Burial Chamber -- 3. The Funerary Equipment -- 4. The Canopic Chest -- 5. Osteobiography of Woseribre Seneb-Kay -- 6. Conservation and Restoration Work -- Part 2: The Reused Material in the Tomb of Seneb-Kay -- 7. The Reused Roof Blocks -- 8. The Reused 13th Dynasty Chapel Blocks -- 9. Chapel Architecture Commemorating Ibiau and Dedtu -- 10. The Family History of Dedtu and Ibiau -- Part 3: The Main Tomb Cluster -- 11. Excavation and Architecture of the Tombs -- 12. Architectural Traditions in the Second Intermediate Period -- 13. The Skeletal Remains from the Main Tomb Cluster -- Part 4: Historical and Archaeological Synthesis -- 14. Seneb-Kay and the Abydos Dynasty -- 15. The Archaeology of Political Dissonance in Egypt’s Second Intermediate Period -- References