A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat Catalog
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Analysis of structure and content suggests that New Kingdom versions of the illustrated “long” Amduat were collated from sources akin to pattern books, while the unique “catalog” in the tomb of Thutmose III (KV 34) evokes a list underlying such sources and expanded into a table, with modifications that reference the decorated burial chamber of KV 34. Such recompilation of an underworld space may play on forms of royal self-presentation by pre-empting visits to libraries and historic sites as part of a scribal intellectual milieu.
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Looking beyond the Text
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BRILL
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978-90-04-72339-9
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Horizon Europe UKRI Underwrite ERC (EP/X028240/1)