Changes and permanences in the funerary equipment in cemeteries of the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period: a study on the role of amulets

Author(s)

Victoria Arroyo Adaime

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE)
• Defense date: 2021-05-14

Examining board members

Vagner Carvalheiro Porto; Fábio Afonso Frizzo de Moraes Lima; Marcelo Aparecido Rede

• Advisor: Vagner Carvalheiro Porto; Cintia Alfieri Gama Rolland

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze and interpret how the transition from a politically centralized period to a descentralized one in the history of Ancient Egypt affected the variability of the funerary practices of the non-elite through the presence or absence of amulets, as well as the variability of how they were used, in burials of three cemiteries of two periods: from the New Kingdom (1550-1069 AEC), Gurob, in Middle Egypt, and from the Third Intermediate Period (1069-656 AEC), Matmar, in Upper Egypt, and Lahun, in Middle Egypt. The analysis of the role of amulets from a contextual approach, along with variables such as the sex and age of the bodies present in the burials, the positioning of the amulet in each body, the material from which they were manufactured, in addition to the motifs and typology they are representing, will make it possible to understand differences in the pattern of material culture, i.e., changes and permanences in the conception and use of amulets within the funerary assemblage. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/15426-7 - Changes and permanences in the funerary equipment in cemeteries of the new kingdom and the third intermediate period: a study on the role of amulets
• Grantee: Victoria Arroyo Adaime
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master