Necropoles Memphiticae Inscriptions from the Herakleopolitan Period

195 LE

 
 

Author: Khaled Dawud

 

This publication complements the Calligraphy Studies Center's objectives in publishing serious academic studies within the field of inscriptions and writings in hope of bridging the existing gap in this field. It publishes and displays a majority of inscriptions through a group of paintings, murals, potsherds, offering tables and stone blocks for the first time.
Through this publication, the author was able to collect, publish and analyze inscriptions written on the ruins, and in particular, the funerary paintings. He presented the publication as a study on the development of these funerary paintings and their recorded texts, along with a comparative study of contemporary paintings in other tombs, such as Dandara, Akhmim, el-Ashmonin, Asyut, Edfut and Thebes.   In addition to that, the author could study the method of distribution of the tombs from the al-Ehnasi era in the sprawling Necropolis of Memphis, the structure of the individual tombs and levels of their development during that period, and also study of the architectural remains in order to shed more light on this period.