Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition)
Dieter Arnold.
The
exploration of the Middle Kingdom cemeteries at El–Lisht, twenty miles
south of Cairo, began in 1882, with the opening of the entrances to
the pyramids of Amenenmhat I and Senwosret I. From 1906 to 1934 and
again from 1984 to 1991 the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, worked intensively at the Lisht site. In the
present volume Dieter Arnold describes and documents the architecture
and wall decoration of tombs built for courtiers and officials around
the two royal pyramids at Lisht. Ancient tomb robbers and quarrymen had
almost totally denuded the Middle Kingdom buildings, but excavation
and careful study of remaining foundations, architectural elements, and
fragments of relief decoration have enabled the author and his team to
reconstruct to a fair degree the form and appearance of these
masterpieces of ancient Egyptian architecture. The textual portion ends
with an appendix written by James P. Allen, professor of Egyptology at
Brown University, that reviews an important biographical inscription
from one of the tombs. This amply illustrated volume, which also
publishes for the first time one of the most highly artistic painted
sarcophagi of the Middle Kingdom, is the twenty–eighth in the series
documenting the Museum's fieldwork in Egypt. It provides the
architectural background for innumerable sculptures and small objects
excavated in the tombs at El–Lisht that are now part of the collections
of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Publisher
:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ISBN-10 : 0300193858
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300193855
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