Three Hundred Years of Death - The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period

In Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata discusses how necropolises and funerary priests, as well as the mummification, funeral, burial, and the deceased's mortuary cult, were organised in Ptolemaic Egypt.

About the author

Maria Cannata, Ph.D. (2009), Oxford University, teaches Egyptology at Peking University. She has published many articles on the funerary sphere in the Graeco-Roman Period, including, most recently, From the Embalmers' Cabinets of Curiosities and Titbits from Tatters: Papyrus Bodleian MS.Egypt.d.19(P).

Product details

• Authors: Maria Cannata
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2020
• EAN: 9789004406797
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40679-7
• No. of pages: 840
• Weight: 1363 g
• Series: Culture and History of the Anc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity