Secondary epigraphy in the North Asasif tombs: The "restoration label" of Paser in Khety's tomb TT 311, year 17 of Ramesses II (original) (raw)
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Graffiti bear witness to actions that follow one another over time and are linked to one another, but which appear within the unified framework of the iconotextual space constituted by the decoration of Egypt’s private funerary chapels. This is so for the document we present in this article, which was collected as part of the secondary epigraphy survey we have been conducting in Middle Egypt in private necropolises since 2017.1 During the 2023 season, we were authorised to visit the tombs of El-Hammamyia and Qoseir el-Amarna,2 a provincial necropolis in the 10th nome of Upper Egypt, whose tombs date mainly from the 5th dynasty. We have recorded only one document, which is the subject of this ar ticle.
The Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: work in the 2015/2016 season, PAM 26/1
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
In the third season of the Polish Asasif Project at the North Asasif Necropolis in West Thebes archaeological fieldwork concentrated on six of the Middle Kingdom rock-cut tombs: MMA 508/TT 311, MMA 509, MMA 512, MMA 514, MMA 515 and MMA 517/TT 240. The corridors and chambers were cleared and the architecture documented and restored. A surface survey was carried out on the slope. Of greatest interest among the finds are Middle Kingdom stone-mason's tools and cartonnages from the Third Intermediate Period.
‘Visitors’ inscriptions’ refer to the ink graffiti left in the public part of funerary monuments in the New Kingdom to record individual visits. This study of the graffiti of TT 60 is part of a larger body of research on visitors’ inscriptions in the Theban necropolis. It presents a range of questions raised by this category of texts, which is here considered as a cultural practice. With these texts, individuals fashion a certain social identity and use the impact of the tomb in terms of social memory to their own benefit. The scribal identity of all the writers of graffiti is closely examined and this practice is considered as part of a specific scribal culture and social identity, which develop in this period and can be traced in the Ramesside literature with compositions such as the Late Egyptian Miscellanies and related texts. The discussion is followed by an appendix containing both published and newly recorded graffiti, along with their positions in the wall decoration
On the Graffito in Theban Tomb 139
Guardian of Ancient Egypt Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass, edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner & Mohamed Megahed, 2020
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The New Kingdom Graffiti in Tomb N13.1: An Overview
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On the Moabite Inscriptions of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple
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