1st Edition

Pharoah'S Gateway To Eternity

By Uphill Copyright 2000
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2000.  The present position of studies relating to the complex of buildings called by Herodotus the Egyptian Labyrinth is far from satisfactory, as also are those that concern the Hawara funerary complex of King Amenemhat III that is generally identified with it. The purpose of this book is therefore to take a new look at the actual site itself and its recorded remains with the aim of using only this evidence and, where necessary, associating it with analogous material from other Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid complexes, in order to arrive at a solution as to what once constituted the Hawara necropolis.

    Part I Methodology used for the Reconstruction The Site: Archaeological Description and Excavators' Reports Part II Analysis of the Archaeological and Architectural Material, Hieroglyphic Textual References to Hawara Part III Twelfth Dynasty Pyramid Complexes Part IV The Accounts of Herodotus and Other Classical Writers: Suggestions and Discussion

    Biography

    Eric P. Uphill