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A Group of Sixth Dynasty Inscriptions

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1954
ba of Mel.u, not yet completely excavated. It belongs to a certain Bia." My warm thanks are extended to Zaki Saad, who kindly permitted me to republish these pieces from his excavations. I am also indebted to the Chief Inspector at Sakkarah, Zakaria Ghoneim, who gave me access to the government magazine and who supplied the excellent photographs in ...
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A Provincial Statue of the Egyptian Sixth Dynasty

American Journal of Archaeology, 1962
'Idi, illustrated in pl. 17, figs. 1-2, has recently been presented to the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Archaeology by Mr. Leonard Epstein of New York.' It is made of quartzite, a material that was much favored by Userkaf but otherwise was seldom utilized during the Old Kingdom and is here perhaps attested for the first time in a piece of
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Going through changes: the elite perception of the King in Sixth Dynasty Egypt

2021
The Sixth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2305-2152BCE) was a period plagued with royal problems. While Teti apparently suffered an attack on his life at the hands of his "bodyguards", Pepy I became the victim of an unsuccessful harem conspiracy, and Pepy II seemingly lost control over the number and power of his officials.
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A Group of Sixth Dynasty Titles Relating to Ptah and Sokar

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1964
in the Bulletin of the University Museum in Philadelphia, where it has long been exhibited,2 it remains to be pointed out that the titles on the six jambs form a rare and interesting group, which, when studied in relation to each other, contribute a surprising amount of information on the development of the local priesthoods from the Old to the Middle ...
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The Problem of Amenirdis ii and the Heirs to the Office of God's Wife of Amun during the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 2002
A discussion of the evidence for the career of Amenirdis II, daughter of Taharqa, and adopted daughter of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II. Consideration of the monuments and the titles used by the God's Wives and their heirs leads to the conclusion that Amenirdis never advanced to the position of God's Wife, but instead held a secondary office ...
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From Saqqara to Brussels: A Head from a Sixth Dynasty Prisoner Statue in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire

Chronique d'Egypte, 2020
Six of the late Old Kingdom pharaohs erected statues of foreign bound prisoners in their pyramid complexes.
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The nobles of El-Qusiya in the sixth dynasty: archaeological and historical study

2016
The nobles of El-Qusiya were of Memphite origin and remained closely connected to the capital, with no evidence of a change in the ruling family from Khewenwekh (Pepy I) to Heni (end of Dynasty 6 or slightly later). Artists, particularly painters, were prominently depicted in the tombs of these nobles and appear in the company of the tomb owners on ...
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Monumentalization of Buddhist Texts in the Northern Qi Dynasty: The Engraving of Sutras in Stone at the Xiangtangshan Caves and Other Sites in the Sixth Century

Artibus Asiae, 1996
Description des sūtras bouddhistes graves illustrant les sculptures monumentales des sanctuaires rupestres datant le dynastie de Qi du nord (550-577 apr. J.-C.), situes a Xiangtangshan (Hebei), dans la region d'Anyang, a Zhonghuangshan et dans la province de ...
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The Evolution of the Archaic Elite Identity: A Reconsideration of the Influence of Nineteenth- and Twenty-Sixth-Dynasty Pharaonic Sculpture on Funerary Kouroi [PDF]

The stone sculptures of young Greek men known as kouroi reflect the evolving desires, beliefs, and identities of the elite individuals who commissioned them and whose privileged lives were threatened by the changing social and political landscape of the Archaic Period (c. 700-479 BCE).
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The Sixth Dynasty

2021
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