Ancient Egyptian Furniture: Volume III - Ramesside Furniture
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Geoffrey Killen
Geoffrey Killen is a leading ancient furniture historian, technologist and Egyptologist who studied Design and Technology at Shoreditch College, University of London and the University of Liverpool, where he specialised in Ramesside woodworking. He has studied the collections of Egyptian furniture at most of the major museums including the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, Cairo and is the author of several major books and numerous papers. He has also led in the field of experimental archaeology where making and using replica woodworking tools and equipment has generated and tested archaeological hypotheses. His practical work is now displayed together with those original artefacts in several British museums.
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Ancient Egyptian Furniture - Geoffrey Killen
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FURNITURE
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FURNITURE VOLUME III
R
AMESSIDE
F
URNITURE
GEOFFREY KILLEN
Published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by
OXBOW BOOKS
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and in the United States by
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© Oxbow Books and Geoffrey Killen 2017
Hardcover Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-489-5
Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-490-1
Mobi Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-491-8
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016961071
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Front cover: Carpenters building a catafalque. Facsimile of a painted wall scene from the tomb of Ipuy, TT 217, 19th Dynasty, Deir el-Medina. Painted by Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941). Photograph courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund (30.4.116).
All internal figures drawn by the author, unless otherwise stated.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Sigla
Chapter 1. Deir el-Medina – A Community of Entrepreneurs?
Chapter 2. An Analysis of Ramesside Furniture Used in Gurob and Memphis
Chapter 3. Ramesside Furniture Forms
Chapter 4. Royal and Temple Furniture
Notes
Appendix A Ramesside Furniture Types
Appendix B Furniture Types Illustrated in Ramesside Theban Tombs
Appendix C Furniture Types Illustrated in Ramesside Memphite Tombs
Appendix D Distribution of Stool Types by Gender as Illustrated in Private Ramesside Theban Tombs
Appendix E Distribution List of Replica Wooden Products Manufactured by the Author and Preserved in Museums and Private Collections
Catalogue of Museum Collections
Bibliography
To my wife Lorraine, and children Sarah, Karen and Caroline and my grandchildren, Ben, Emma, Sophie, Hannah, James, Olivia, Jack and Noah for their patience and the encouragement they have shown during the years this work has taken to materialise.
List of Figures
All the figures were drawn for this book by the Author. Where appropriate they are scaled in millimetres.
List of Plates