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Covering the Deceased’s Heads with Pottery Vessels: Insight from Late and Ptolemaic Period Necropolis in Saqqara West

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
Among the more than 700 burials of the Late and Ptolemaic periods discovered by the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara West, in the case of two burials the heads of the deceased were covered, respectively, with a vessel and half a vessel.
Małgorzata Radomska
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A PAINTED WOODEN PTOLEMAIC PERIOD COFFIN OF IR.T-WY –RW FROM SHARUNA IN THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM (GEM NO 32598) [PDF]

open access: yesShedet, 2023
This article is focused on the painted wooden anthropoid coffin excavated at Kom el-Ahmar/Sharuna in 1976 and preserved in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo (GEM no 32598). According to its inscriptions, it contains the mummy of ir.t-wy-rw.
Marwa Ewais
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Unpublished Coffin-Lid from Interior of pA-di-mnx in Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum [PDF]

open access: yesLuxor International Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023
The Current paper is concerned with the study and publication of a coffin-lid from interior of pA-di-mnx from Ptolemaic period. Who was a priest of the god Min, maybe he lived in the 3rd or 4th century BC.
Hossam Fawzy   +2 more
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Land Tenure (to the End of the Ptolemaic Period) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Land tenure describes the regime by means of which land is owned or possessed, whether by landholders, private owners, tenants, sub-lessees, or squatters. It embraces individual or group rights to occupy and/or use the land, the social relationships that may be identified among the rural population, and the converging influences of the local and ...
Katary, Sally,, Katary, Sally
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Investigating hydroclimatic impacts of the 168–158 BCE volcanic quartet and their relevance to the Nile River basin and Egyptian history [PDF]

open access: yesClimate of the Past, 2023
The Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE) is an important period of Ancient Egyptian history known for its material and scientific advances, but also intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) revolts against the Ptolemaic elites.
R. Singh   +7 more
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Sphinx Statue from the Temple of KomOmbo [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرة, 2022
The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquity conducted in 2018 a project within the enclosure of the temple of KomOmbo, which aimed to lowering the groundwater, in order to safe target level, to prevent continued capillary rise and salt attack in the temple
Mohamed Aly Elnaggar, Ahmed Faraman
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Cosmogony (Late to Ptolemaic and Roman Periods) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Cosmogonies of Late Period and Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt are founded upon those of the earlier “classic” ages, incorporating old texts and themes but elaborating them to form new compositions, synthesizing elements of the major Heliopolitan, Memphite, and Hermopolitan theologies with texts and rituals more specific to the deities of local cult centers,
McClain, Brett,, McClain, Brett
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Funerary rituals (Ptolemaic and Roman Periods) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Ancient Egyptian rituals for the mummification, burial, and commemoration of the dead as performed in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods are attested by textual sources and visual arts, as well as by the evidence of mummified bodies. The underlying religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are basically the same as those of the Dynastic period. This
Riggs, Christina, Riggs, Christina,
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REMAINS OF TWO PTOLEMAIC COFFINS FOR OSIRIS MUMMIES-CORN FROM THE GIZA PLATEAU [PDF]

open access: yesShedet, 2022
This article serves to publish the remains of two Ptolemaic Osiris corn-mummy coffins, currently kept in the storeroom of the Haram Museum.  These two coffins were among five discovered during the 1994 excavation of the ring road around the Giza plateau. 
Abdelrahman Abdelrahman, Maher A. EISSA
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A PTOLEMAIC STELA OF ANKH-WENNEFER IN THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM (GEM.12920) [PDF]

open access: yesShedet, 2018
This paper explores a funerary Ptolemaic stela of Ankh-wennefer together with his elder son, Djedher (inv. no GEM 12920). Illustrated drawing is provided for the first time. The available surface is fully inscribed with hieroglyphic inscriptions in three
Ahmed MASHHOUT
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