December Q&A

Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney

EPISODE 72 | In this episode Kara and Jordan answer this month’s listener questions.

Listener Notes:

Time & Calendars:

* MET- Telling Time in Ancient Egypt

* Nile Scribes- Celebrating the Seasons

* SAOC 26. The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. Richard A. Parker

* Tomb aligned with Winter Solstice

Wills & Funerals

* NJ van Blerk, The basic tenets of intestate (customary) succession law in Ancient Egypt

* Will of Naunakhte

Anthropoid Clay Coffins

* Cotelle-Michel, Laurence. 2004. “Les Sarcophages en terre cuite”

* Wikipedia- Anthropoid Ceramic Coffins

* María Rosa Valdesogo blog- The Iconography in a Clay Coffin of Ancient Egypt. A Guarantee of Resurrection.

* Kazimierczak, Magdalena, and Konrad Grzyb. “DISTRIBUTION OF THE POTTERY COFFINS AND CERAMIC VESSELS WITHIN THE EARLY DYNASTIC GRAVES FROM TELL EL-MURRA CEMETERY.” Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, vol. 30, 2020, pp. 415–44. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27045094. Accessed 20 Dec. 2023.

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