Table of Contents

List of Figures, Graphics and Tables



Introduction

 Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Antonio J. Morales



1 The Funerary Chambers of Sarenput II and the Destruction of His Outer Coffin

 José M. Alba Gómez



2 Regional Differences in Pottery Repertoires: Two Case Studies of Early and Late Middle Kingdom Ceramic Assemblages

 Bettina Bader



3 The “Prince’s Court Is like a Common Fountain”: Middle Kingdom Royal Patronage in the Light of a Modern Sociological Concept

 Martina Bardonova



4 Sinuhe: Popular Hero, Court Politics, and the Royal Paradigm

 Miroslav Bárta and Jiří Janák



5 A Wood Workshop at Meir at the Beginning of the Middle Kingdom: The Case of the Wooden Models

 Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer



6 The Burial in Qubbet el-Hawa of a Woman Named Sattjeni

 Luisa M. García González



7 Some Remarks on a Multidimensional Approach to the Unique Spells of the Coffin Texts

 Carlos Gracia Zamacona



8 The Non-use of Titles in the Early Middle Kingdom

 Wolfram Grajetzki



9 “Co-regencies” in the First Upper Egyptian Nome during the Twelfth Dynasty

 Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León



10 The Issue of Residence and Periphery in the Middle Kingdom: Surveying the Delta

 Eva Lange-Athinodorou



11 The Craft of the Non-mechanically Reproducible: Targeting Centres of Faience Figurine Production in 1800–1650 BC Egypt

 Gianluca Miniaci



12 Opening the Vision of Osiris Sarenput: A Contextual and Typological Analysis of the Coffin of Sarenput the Younger from Qubbet el-Hawa

 Antonio J. Morales



13 Elite Tombs at the Residence: The Decoration and Design of Twelfth Dynasty Tomb Chapels and Mastabas at Lisht and Dahshur

 Adela Oppenheim



14 Middle Kingdom Settlement Geography at the First Cataract

 Cornelius von Pilgrim



15 Tombs and Objects of the Middle Kingdom in the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III in Luxor

 Myriam Seco Álvarez and Javier Martínez Babón



16 The Holders of the Titles šmsw nswt and šmsw pr-ꜥꜣ

 Danijela Stefanović



17 Djoser’s Complex as a Source of Inspiration for the Decoration of Private Coffins in the Middle Kingdom

 Harco Willems



Index

About the Author

Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Jaén. In 2008, he reassumed the archaeological excavations in Qubbet el-Hawa from a multidisciplinary perspective. He has published several books, book chapters, and articles, including the edition (together with C. von Pilgrim) From the Delta to the Cataract: Studies Dedicated to Mohamed el-Bialy (Brill, 2015).



Antonio J. Morales, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Alcalá (UAH, Madrid), and director of the Middle Kingdom Theban Project (Asasif and Deir el-Bahari). His main areas of research are history, religion, and language in the Old and Middle Kingdoms.