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The Funerary Domains in the Pyramid Complex of Sahura : An Aspect of the Economy in the Late Third Millennium BCE

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the bood represents catalogue of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by Egyptian team at Sahura's causeway and of related pehou.

The introductory chapters provide the reader with the contex and the overview of other known contemporary domains of this kind. The conclusing chapters then discuss the nature and location of pehou as well as the economic significance of royal domains with regard to the new finds from Sahura's causeway.