'The Perfection that Endures...'. Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, edited by Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Edyta Kopp and Daniel Takacs

CONTENTS
Preface viii, Bibliography xiii, Katarína Arias Kytnarová: Broken for the afterlife. Depositional and post-depositional processes in the shaft of Princess Sheretnebty’s husband 1, Johannes Auenmüller: Society and iconography. On the sociological analysis of iconographic programs of Old Kingdom elite tombs 15, Martina Bardoňová: Grain storage in the Old Kingdom. Relation between an object and its image 43, Miroslav Bárta and Hana Vymazalová: Created for eternity. Statues and serdabs in the late Fifth Dynasty tombs at Abusir South 61, Vivienne Gae Callender: The art and artifice of the hieroglyphs of Akhmim in the Old Kingdom 77, Sherine ElSebaie: Vanquishing the beast. Hippopotami hunting scenes in Old Kingdom tombs 85, Laurel Flentye: The Giza Necropolis: early influences. Meidum, Dahshur, and Saqqara 97, Florence Dunn Friedman: The names of Menkaure 113, Roman Gundacker:The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty according to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca 133, Julia Harvey: Old Kingdom wooden statues and beyond 175, Marie Peterková Hlouchová: The god Weneg and the wng-plant in the Old Kingdom 177, Colin A. Hope, Amy J. Pettman, and Ashten R. Warfe: The Egyptian annexation of Dakhleh Oasis. New evidence from Mut al-Kharab 191, Mohamed Ismail Khaled: Old Kingdom royal funerary domains: a question of usurpation? 209, Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano: The governors of Elephantine and their funerary complexes in Qubbet el-Hawa at the end of Sixth Dynasty 215, Naguib Kanawati: A unique burial of a father and a son. Niankhpepy the Black and Pepyankh the Black, at Meir 225, Yukinori Kawae, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Ichiroh Kanaya and Fumito Chiba: 3D reconstruction and interpretation of the ‘Cave’ of the Great Pyramid: an inductive approach 231, Jaromír Krejčí: Archaeological exploration of the mastaba of count Kakaibaef in Abusir (Tomb AC 29) 239, Agnese Kukela and Valdis Seglins: The pyramids at Dahshur. The necessary innovations before pyramids' construction at Giza 247, Miral Lashien: The art in the tomb of Pepyankh the Middle. Innovation or copying? 253, Maksim A. Lebedev: A new Old Kingdom painting from the Eastern Necropolis at Giza 267, Rémi Legros: Décrets de la nécropole royale de Pépy Ier 279, Riccardo Manzini: On planning the apartments of the pyramids 305, Mohamed Megahed:New ankh-giving scenes from the pyramid complex of Djedkare 317, Karol Myśliwiec: The ‘Dry Moat’: a new project 327, Věra Nováková: Old Kingdom stone sarcophagi as indicators of social change 333, Christoffer Theis: Eyes, false doors and Pyramid Text 534 § 1266–1267 347, Elizabeth Thompson: Residing in the provinces. The art and architecture of the Old Kingdom cemetery at Tehna in Middle Egypt 355, Miroslav Verner: Sahure: rethinking the pyramid complex 363, Joris van Wetering: The Early Dynastic royal cemetery at Saqqara 367, PLATES I-CIII