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Title Setting the scene : the deceased and regenerative cult within offering table imagery of the Egyptian Old to Middle Kingdoms, C.2686-C.1650 BC / Barbara O'Neill.

Publication Info.	Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2015]
	Š2015

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Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (vi, 113 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF cover (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on October 28, 2016).
Contents	CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: THEORY AND METHOD ; CHAPTER 3: SOCIETY AND DEATH ; CHAPTER 4: LIMINAL CONTEXTS ; CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION: GATHERING THE STRANDS ; APPENDIX 1: APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 3 ; APPENDIX 2: APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4 ; APPENDIX 3: Titles and epithets associated with women in possession of offering table depictions ; APPENDIX 4: Frequency of rituals enacted in offering table depictions from the examples included in this study. ; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Access	Open Access EbpS
Summary	This study investigates gender-based and ritual-dependent afterlife expectations of the deceased over a key phase in Egyptian history from the latter part of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom Period, c.2686 BC - c.1650 BC.
Subject	Votive offerings -- Egypt.
	Egypt -- Antiquities.
	Égypte -- Antiquités.
	Egyptian archaeology -- Egyptology.
	HISTORY -- Ancient -- Egypt.
	HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt
	Antiquities
	Votive offerings
	Egypt https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDwpX7XgppvP7ww3J9c
ISBN	1784911178 (e-Pdf)
	9781784911171 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	UKMGB 020427148
	AU@ 000072013422