The Funerary Temple of Pepy I. The time of construction.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 21827 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 470 p., 696 illustrations. 1 bound volume of text, 1 volume of folded plates in a slipcase. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707090 |
This book concerns the upper temple of the funerary complex of Pepy I, third ruler of the 6th Dynasty. It is a continuation of the publications on the pyramid of Pepy I: texts, translation of texts, architecture, marks on building stones. It presents the project of the royal tomb and the arrival of the causeway leading to it, the external appearance and the two parts of the temple: the ante-temple and the inner temple. The small pyramid is also presented through its architecture and function. The places of worship, the circulations, the details of the bas-relief blocks are studied. Numerous reconstruction hypotheses are proposed, both for the architecture and for the bas-reliefs and their location on the walls. Finally, the modifications of the monument under Merenre I are considered, completed by an attempt to synthesize function and decoration. A final, collective volume will be devoted to the history of the temple: from its fire at the very end of the Old Kingdom, its restoration in the Middle Kingdom, its ruin in the New Kingdom, which saw its transformation into a modest collective cemetery, to the re-cutting of its blocks in the Coptic period, and its dismemberment under the Mamluks.
This book concerns the upper temple of the funerary complex of Pepy I, third ruler of the 6th Dynasty. It is a continuation of the publications on the pyramid of Pepy I: texts, translation of texts, architecture, marks on building stones. It presents the project of the royal tomb and the arrival of the causeway leading to it, the external appearance and the two parts of the temple: the ante-temple and the inner temple. The small pyramid is also presented through its architecture and function. The places of worship, the circulations, the details of the bas-relief blocks are studied. Numerous reconstruction hypotheses are proposed, both for the architecture and for the bas-reliefs and their location on the walls. Finally, the modifications of the monument under Merenre I are considered, completed by an attempt to synthesize function and decoration. A final, collective volume will be devoted to the history of the temple: from its fire at the very end of the Old Kingdom, its restoration in the Middle Kingdom, its ruin in the New Kingdom, which saw its transformation into a modest collective cemetery, to the re-cutting of its blocks in the Coptic period, and its dismemberment under the Mamluks.