Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts

Carlos Gracia Zamacona, Ph.D. (2008), École Pratique des Hautes Études, is Atracción de Talento senior researcher at the University of Alcalá. He has published on the Coffin Texts, ancient Egyptian semantics and graphemics, including Manual de egipcio medio (Archaeopress, 2017).

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Introduction

 Carlos Gracia Zamacona



Part 1 Individuals



1 Secondary Epigraphy and Interaction with Transfigured Dead: The Case of Nikauizezi, Saqqara

 Julia Hamilton



2 Decorated Coffin of King’s Ornament Setib Buried at Abusir

 Veronika Dulíková and Marie Peterková Hlouchová



3 Putting Intentions in Their Place: Materialising Meaning through Spatial Dynamics in Appeals to the Dead

 Angela McDonald



4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou : miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’Âge Thinite à l’Ancien Empire

 Jean-Pierre Pätznick



5 Osiris as Written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts

 César Guerra Méndez and Carlos Gracia Zamacona



Part 2 Groups



6 Repeating the Ritual under the Ground: Performance of the Royal Object Ritual in the Middle Kingdom

 Seria Yamazaki



7 Dmjw, N(j)wtj‘Citizen’ in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the Context of the Social and Political Changes Occurred in Egypt at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BC

 Juan Carlos Moreno García



8 New Spells, New Compilations, and the Concept of Variability in Sequences of Pyramid and Coffin Texts

 Christelle Alvarez



9 Becoming Wind? Observations on Identity and Identification in the So-called Transformation Spells

 Anne Landborg



Part 3 Tracers



10 Variation in the Graphical Form of the First-Person Stative Ending in the Coffin Texts

 Jorke Grotenhuis



11 (Re)connecting Artefacts and Thinking in the Afterlife: the Case of Funerary Wooden Models

 Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer



12 Variation as a Social Device: ‘Middle Egyptianisms’ in Old Kingdom Letters

 M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro



13 Problematising Linguistic Variation in the Coffin Texts: A Case-Study on Spell CT 335

 Dina Serova



14 Occurrences of Grave Goods and Their Representations on Coffins: A Concept of Substitution?

 Elisabeth Kruck



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