Coffin Commerce - How a Funerary Materiality Formed Ancient Egypt

This discussion will be centered on the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin - how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Power of the Thing; 3. The Egyptian Coffin as a Social Thing; 4. The Object as Container of Transformative Magic; 5. The Coffin as a Set of Social and Economic Choices; 6. The Coffin Craft System; 7. Coffins as Transactional Objects; 8. How Coffins Formed Egyptian Society.

Summary

This discussion will be centered on the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire 'lifespan' of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person.

Product details

• Authors: Kathlyn M. Cooney, Kathlyn M. (University of California Cooney, Cooney Kathlyn M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108823333
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82333-3
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context; Elements in Ancient Egypt in C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, Egypt; funerary culture; materiality; coffins; economy