[A History of Ancient Egypt 02] • History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2 by Romer, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Preface Part One: After the Great Pyramids – History and Hieroglyphs

1 The Story up to Now – A History in Pyramids 2 Writing Changes Everything 3 Reviving Hardjedef?

Part Two: Making ‘Ancient Egypt’ – Champollion and his Successors

4 In the Beginning

Mise en Scène Lettre a M. Dacier

5 The Road to Memphis

Champollion in Turin A Point of View Ways and Means – The Innocence of Knowledge Counting Kings – The Turin Canon Counting Time – Into an Unknown Past Champollion Triumphans

6 Aftermath

Three Kingdoms – The Chevalier Bunsen Denkmäler – Professor Lepsius The Legacy – Champollion’s Ancient Egypt

Part Three: Old Kingdom – The Giza Kings, 2625–2500 BC

7 The Eloquence of Statues

The Giza Sphinx – Stone and History Khafre and the Golden Hawk Hard Histories – A Lineage of Statuary Placing Pharaoh – The Figure at the Centre

8 Finding Menkaure – The Excavations of George Andrew Reisner, 1906–10

Pyramid Temple Valley Temple

9 Royal Households

Kings and Queens Queens and Goddesses Mortal and Immortal

10 After Giza

Marking Time The Palermo Stone and other Annals Time Present and Time Past Time and History

Part Four: Old Kingdom – Abusir and After, 2500–2200 BC

11 Abusir and Saqqara

Borchardt at Abusir A History in Pyramids Dissolution Restoration

12 Meat, Bread and Stone – An Economy of Offering

Heliopolis The Abusir Papyri Sun Temples and Slaughterhouses The Value and the Worth of Things

13 The Living Court

Per’a – The Palace Constancy and Change Modelling the Universe

14 The Living Kingdom

Copper and the Kings Neki-ankh at Tihna Visiting the Tombs All Along the Valley Scenes from Life

15 Cult and Kingdom

Of Courtly Cults A History of Gods Seen and Unseen

Part Five: Old Kingdom – Ancient Records, Ancient Lives

16 Papyrus to Stone

Letters from a King Words and Writing Brief Lives – The Savour of a Courtly Past

17 Writing in the Pyramids

After Abusir – A History in Pyramids Into the Crypt The Voice inside the Pyramid

18 The Dead and the Quick – Processing the Past

1880 AD – The Pyramid Texts Discovered Stone to Paper – From Saqqara to Berlin ‘Studiosus Philologiae’ – The Conquest of the Past Grammars and Dictionaries Ancient Records, Modern Histories

19 Interpreting the Pyramids

Kurt Sethe and the Pyramid Texts Timely Meditations The Bones of the Hell-Hounds Tremble – Primitivism and the Berlin Seminars Reading in the Dark

20 Look at Us! – Meet the Courtiers

Image and Presentation Ranks and Titles Ordering the Kingdom – Land and Society The Court Abroad Deserts, Boats and Donkeys – The Great Explorers Rich and Richer – Weni of Abydos

Part Six: Interregnum – 2200–2140 BC

21 Suddenly it Stops

History without Pyramids Lamentations and Admonitions Memphis, Herakleopolis and Thebes Why the Centre Had Not Held The Existential Smash-up A Brave New Age – Ankhtifi at Mo’alla Nomes and Nomarchs Peace and War Famine and Plenty Tombs of the Times A Very Local Festival

Part Seven: Middle Kingdom – Remaking the State, 2140–1780 BC

22 Sema Towy – Binding the Kingdom

Names and Graves – A Chronology of Kings The King, the Palace and the State – Designing a New Kingdom At the Beginning – Eastern Thebes Rising like Temples – Western Thebes North to Itj-towy – Moving Close to Memphis Heliopolis and Abydos – Re and Osiris The Mansions of Amun-Re – The Festivals of Thebes

23 The Court of Thebes

The King’s Men – Wadi el-Shatt el-Rigal Sandstone and Limestone Names and Titles The Court Assembled – Western Thebes The Royal Household A Farmer’s Archive – The Heqanakht Papyri

24 The Materials of State – The Court at Work

Copper – The Mines of Sinai Incense – High Sahara The Wonderful Things of Punt Carnelian, Amethyst and Siltstone – The Egyptian Deserts Alabaster – Beside the Nile

25 The Levant and Nubia

Travellers to an Antique Land The Sinai Station – A Levantine Synthesis Levantine Settlements – Amorites and Tell el-Dab’a Nubian Fortresses

Part Eight: Middle Kingdom – The Re-made State, 2000–1660 BC

26 The Court at Home

The Royal Settlement of Itj-towy A Royal Audience Feeding Pharaoh – Sustaining Itj-towy Floods and the Fayum

27 Living in the State

Working for the State – The Thinis Dockyards Housing by the State – The Settlement at el-Lahun Community and Being

Epilogue – Reflections on a Golden Age

The Poetry of Craftsmanship – Middle Kingdom Material Culture Images of Kings Looking Back, Looking Forward – Senwosret III’s Abydos Tomb The Mind’s Eye – Middle Kingdom Literature Murdered by Eunuchs? – Modern History and Ancient Literature The Ending

Chronology Bibliography List of Maps and Figures List of Plates Acknowledgements Index Photographs Also by John Romer About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Contents Copyright

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →