The necropolis of Assiut : a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom

rooms across the inner face ofthe eastern enclosure wall have more or less straight walls and right angled corners, but to the west of these lies a much more irregular set of spaces..

thought connected with the transmission of a Pyramid Text into the Middle Kingdom, of a sort which stimulated the production of new but related texts. With Coffin Texts

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The necropolis of Assiut : a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom Zitman,

37 Op grond van de in deze studie geïdentificeerde graven en bronnen wordt het politieke belang van Assioet tijdens de Eerste Tussenperiode derhalve niet zichtbaar in de opkomst

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The necropolis of Assiut : a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom Zitman,

•Arise! Raise yourself!' It is quite literally a resurrection fonnula, since it involves the deceased getting up. That is the motion indicated in this particular title: raising the