MastaBase: Digitalized Database of Iconography Programmes of Elite Graves in the Memphite Area of the Old Kingdom

Van Walsem, R.

ISBN 10: 9042918268 ISBN 13: 9789042918269

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

The Leiden Mastaba Project (LMP) concerns an integral and analytic study of the secular or 'daily life' scenes and their accompanying texts in the elite tombs of the Memphite area in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2600-2150 B.C.). The project aims to gain insight into the number, size, internal organization and shape of the various (sub)themes, their location in the tomb, their wallposition (upper/middle/lower level), and their orientation (north/east/south/west) on the walls. This reflects the dynamics of Old Kingdom funerary culture in general aspects (collective) and in specific cases (individual). Simultaneously it reveals possible local variations, mainly among the large necropoleis of Saqqara and Giza. The data are digitalized in a database called MastaBase, published on this cd-rom. Thanks to the standardisation of the material offered in the MastaBase, it is now possible to gain quick oversight of various different aspects of these tombs and their decoration via extensive selection procedures. (Peeters Publishers 2007)

Edition details

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042918268
• ISBN 13: 9789042918269
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Number of pages: 24