Middle Kingdom Palace Culture and Its Echoes in the Provinces

Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Jaén. In 2008, he reassumed the archaeological excavations in Qubbet el-Hawa from a multidisciplinary perspective. He has published several books, book chapters, and articles, including the edition (together with C. von Pilgrim) From the Delta to the Cataract: Studies Dedicated to Mohamed el-Bialy (Brill, 2015).Antonio J. Morales, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Alcalá (UAH, Madrid), and director of the Middle Kingdom Theban Project (Asasif and Deir el-Bahari). His main areas of research are history, religion, and language in the Old and Middle Kingdoms.

• List of Figures, Graphics and TablesIntroductionAlejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Antonio J. Morales1 The Funerary Chambers of Sarenput II and the Destruction of His Outer CoffinJosé M. Alba Gómez2 Regional Differences in Pottery Repertoires: Two Case Studies of Early and Late Middle Kingdom Ceramic AssemblagesBettina Bader3 The “Prince’s Court Is like a Common Fountain”: Middle Kingdom Royal Patronage in the Light of a Modern Sociological ConceptMartina Bardonova4 Sinuhe: Popular Hero, Court Politics, and the Royal ParadigmMiroslav Bárta and Jiří Janák5 A Wood Workshop at Meir at the Beginning of the Middle Kingdom: The Case of the Wooden ModelsGersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer6 The Burial in Qubbet el-Hawa of a Woman Named SattjeniLuisa M. García González7 Some Remarks on a Multidimensional Approach to the Unique Spells of the Coffin TextsCarlos Gracia Zamacona8 The Non-use of Titles in the Early Middle KingdomWolfram Grajetzki9 “Co-regencies” in the First Upper Egyptian Nome during the Twelfth DynastyAlejandro Jiménez-Serrano and Juan Carlos Sánchez-León10 The Issue of Residence and Periphery in the Middle Kingdom: Surveying the DeltaEva Lange-Athinodorou11 The Craft of the Non-mechanically Reproducible: Targeting Centres of Faience Figurine Production in 1800–1650 BC EgyptGianluca Miniaci12 Opening the Vision of Osiris Sarenput: A Contextual and Typological Analysis of the Coffin of Sarenput the Younger from Qubbet el-HawaAntonio J. Morales13 Elite Tombs at the Residence: The Decoration and Design of Twelfth Dynasty Tomb Chapels and Mastabas at Lisht and DahshurAdela Oppenheim14 Middle Kingdom Settlement Geography at the First CataractCornelius von Pilgrim15 Tombs and Objects of the Middle Kingdom in the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III in LuxorMyriam Seco Álvarez and Javier Martínez Babón16 The Holders of the Titles šmsw nswt and šmsw pr-ꜥꜣDanijela Stefanović17 Djoser’s Complex as a Source of Inspiration for the Decoration of Private Coffins in the Middle KingdomHarco WillemsIndex