NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mastaba, Turin King List, Abusir Papyri
26 Nov 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Nyuserra: viziers play a very important role in his reign, they have lavish burials, viziers are: ptahshepses, kay and pehenuka, best preserved of this period are the tomb of the two barbers. Menkauhor: reign, turin canon - 8 years, manetho - 9 years. 2008: we know he had a pyramid but for a while we had no idea what happened to it. Unas: reign, turin canon - 30 years, manetho - 33 years. Religion: pyramid texts: categories, dramatic texts, hymns with name formulae. Government and economic activities in the ok - 5th dynasty: the 5th dynasty was a time of change: centralized state of the god-kingship transformed into a bureaucratic state, hereditary and inheritance of title incorporated into this. First hints of nomarch: provincial rulers", building bigger tombs that incorporate wealth and status and rituals previously only for king, idealized biographies, officials no longer found just near the kings pyramids. Pyramid of kentkawes of abusir: not attached but her own.
