Bibliography
Bibliographical materials for general readers, students, and specialists
In this section our readers are invited to examine some of the fundamental studies associated with the various aspects of our work in the necropolis of Deir el-Bahari: previous excavations, interpretative studies about the archeology of the period, findings from the area, and textual evidence recovered from this cemetery. These resources should benefit both interested readers and students and scholars who wish to deepen their knowledge on the archaeology, history, and culture of the Middle Kingdom.
Excavations in Middle Kingdom monuments at Deir el-Bahari
ARNOLD, Dieter (1974), Der Tempel des Königs Mentuhotep von Deir el-Bahari. Vol. 2: Die Wandreliefs des Sanktuares, Mainz an Rhein, ArchVer 11.
ARNOLD, Dieter (1974), Der Tempel des Königs Mentuhotep von Deir el-Bahari. Vol. 1: Architektur und Deutung, Mainz an Rhein, ArchVer 8.
ARNOLD, Dieter (1972), “Bericht über die vom Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Kairo in Mntw-htp Tempel und in El-Tarif unternommenen Arbeiten”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 28, 13-31.
ARNOLD, Dieter (1971), Grabung im Asasif, 1963-1970. Vol. I: Das Grab des Jnj-jtj.f. Die Architektur, Mainz an Rhein, ArchVer 4.
ARNOLD, Dieter/WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1979), The temple of Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahari, New York, MMAE 1.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2018), “Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: archaeological activities in 2017”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 27/1, 183-194.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2017), “Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: archaeological activities in 2015/2016”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 26/1, 185-198.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2016), “Middle Kingdom tombs of Asasif: archaeological activities in 2015”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 25, 289-302.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2015), “The tombs of Asasif: archaeological exploration in the 2013/2014 season”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 24/1, 239-246.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2013), “Preliminary remarks on the architecture of Theban Tomb 1152 at Sheikh Abd el-Gurna”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 22, 193-198.
DAVIES, Norman de Garis/GARDINER, Alan H. (1920), The Tomb of Antefoker, Vizier of Sesostris I, and his Wife (No. 60), London, Theban Tomb Series 2.
JAROŠ-DECKERT, Brigitte (1984), Grabung im Asasif, 1963-1970. Vol. V: Das Grab des Inj-jtj.f. Die Wandmalereien der XI. Dynastie, Mainz an Rhein, ArchVer 12.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2018), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Preliminary report on the University of Alcalá Expedition to Deir el-Bahari. Fourth Season (2018)”, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 47, 183-221.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2018), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Resultados preliminares de la Misión de la UAH en Deir el-Bahari. Cuarta campaña (2018)”, Boletín de la Asociación Española de Egiptología 27, 165-190.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2017), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Preliminary report on the University of Alcalá Expedition to Deir el-Bahari. Third Season (2017)”, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 46, 153-190.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2017), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Resultados preliminares de la Misión de la UAH en Deir el-Bahari. Tercera campaña (2017)”, Boletín de la Asociación Española de Egiptología 26, 143-168.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2016), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Preliminary report on the Freie Universität Berlin Mission to Deir el-Bahari. First and Second Seasons (2015-2016)”, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 45, 257-282.
MORALES, Antonio J. et alii (2016), “The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Resultados preliminares de la Misión FUB en Deir el-Bahari. Primera y segunda campañas (2015-2016)”, Boletín de la Asociación Española de Egiptología 25, 89-112.
NAVILLE, Édouard (1913), The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Part III, Memoir EEF 32, London.
NAVILLE, Édouard (1912), The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Part II, Memoir EEF 30, London.
NAVILLE, Édouard (1907), The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Part I, Memoir EEF 28, London.
RASHA, Soliman (2009), Old and Middle Kingdom Theban Tombs, London, Golden House Publications.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1942), The Excavations at Deir el-Bahari, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1925-1927), “The Museum’s Excavations at Thebes: The Egyptian Expedition 1925-1927”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 23, 3-58.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1923), “The Museum’s Excavations at Thebes: The Egyptian Expedition 1922-1923”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal18, 11-39.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1922), “The Egyptian Expedition 1921-1922”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 17, 19-49.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1921), “Excavations at Thebes: The Egyptian Expedition 1920-1921”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 16, 29-53.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1920), “The Egyptian Expedition 1918-1920: Excavations at Thebes 1919-1920”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 15, 12-32.
Interpretative essays on Middle Kingdom archaeology
ALLEN, James P. (2003), “The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom”, in N. Strudwick and J.H. Taylor (eds.), The Theban Necropolis: past, present and future, London, 14-29.
ALLEN, James P. (1996), “Some Theban officials of the early Middle Kingdom”, in P. der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, vol. I, Boston, 1-26.
ARNOLD, Dieter (2015), “Some thoughts on the building history of the temple of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre at Deir el-Bahari”, Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 19, 59-68.
ARNOLD, Dieter (1968), “Bemerkungen zu den Königsgräbern der frühen 11. Dynastie von El-Târif”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 23, 26-37.
ARNOLD, Dorothea (1991), “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes”,The Metropolitan Museum Journal 26, 5-48.
ARNOLD, Felix (1991), “The high stewards of the Early Middle Kingdom”, Göttinger Miszellen , 122, 7-14.
BECKERATH, Jürgen von (1965), “Zur Begründung der 12. Dynastie durch Ammenemes I.”, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 92, 4-10.
BERMAN, Lawrence Michael (1985), Amenemhet I, PhD dissertation submitted to Yale University, New Haven.
CARLOTTI, Jean-François (2000), “Modifications architecturales du ‘Grand Château d’Amon’ de Sésostris Ier à Karnak”, Égypte, Afrique & Orient 16, 37-46.
CARTER, Howard (1901), “Report on the Tomb of Mentuhotep Ist at Deir el-Bahari, Known as Bab el-Hôçan”, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 2, 201-205.
CHUDZIK, Patryk/CABAN, Mariusz (2019), “Observations on the architecture of the tomb of Horhotep in western Thebes”, Études et travaux 30, 221-229.
CHUDZIK, Patryk (2016), “A unique royal mortuary temple and exceptional private complexes. The architecture of the Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II monument reflected in the funerary structures of high officials at Thebes”, in M. Ullmann (ed.), 10. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Ägyptische Tempel zwischen Normierung und Individualität, München, 29.-31. August 2014, Wiesbaden, 71-80.
DARNELL, John C. (1997), “New inscriptions of the Late First Intermediate Period from the Theban Western desert and the beginnings of the northern expansion of the Eleventh Dynasty”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56, 241-258.
FÁBIÁN, Zoltán Imre (2009), “The Middle Kingdom on el-Khokha: saff-tombs”, in T.A. Bács et alii (eds.), Hungarian excavations in the Theban necropolis: a celebration of 102 years of fieldwork in Egypt, Budapest, 55-60.
FAVRY, Nathalie (2004), Le nomarque sous le règne de Sésostris Ier, Paris.
FAY, Biri (2015), “Thoughts on the Sculpture of Sesostris I and Amenemhat II, Inspired by the Meket-Re Study Day”, in G. Miniaci and W. Grajetzki (eds.), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), vol. I, London, Middle Kingdom Studies 1, 81-84.
FREED, Rita E. (1997), “Relief Styles of the Nebhepetre Montuhotep Funerary Temple Complex”, in E. Goring et alii (eds.) Chief of Seers: Egyptian Studies in Memory of Cyril Aldred, London-New York, 148-163.
FREED, Rita E. (1996), “Stela Workshops of Early Dynasty 12”, in P. der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, vol. I, Boston, 297-336.
FREED, Rita E. (1984), The Development of Middle Kingdom Egyptian Relief Sculptural Schools of Late Dynasty XI, with an Appendix on the Trends of Early Dynasty XII (2040-1878 BC), PhD dissertation submitted to New York University.
GABOLDE, Luc (1998), Le “Grand Château d’Amon” de Sésostris Ier à Karnak: La décoration du temple d’Amon-Rê au Moyen Empire, Paris.
GARDINER, Alan H. (1917), “The Tomb of a Much-Travelled Theban Official”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 4/1, 28-38.
GRACIA ZAMACONA, Carlos (2019), “Imagining Henenu”, Near Eastern Archaeology 82/2, 75-81.
HABACHI, Labib (1963), “King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep: His Monuments, Place in History, Deification and Unusual Representations in the Form of Gods”, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 19, 16-52.
HAYES, William C. (1949), “Career of the great steward Henenu under Nebhepetre Mentuhopte”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 35, 43-49.
HELCK, H. Wolfgang (1955), “Zur Reichseinigung der 11. Dynastie”, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 80, 75-76.
HUDÁKOVÁ, Lubica/JÁNOSI, Peter/SIFFERT, Uta (eds.) (2018), Art-facts and artefacts: visualising the material world in Middle Kingdom Egypt, London, Golden House Publications.
HUDÁKOVÁ, Lubica (2016), “Dying and mourning between the Old and Middle Kingdoms – some peculiar scenes from Thebes, el-Moalla, and Gebelein”, in L. Hudáková et alii (eds.), Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art, Middle Kingdom Studies 4, London, 47-63.
JÁNOSI, Peter (2010), “Montuhotep-Nebtawyre and Amenemhat I: Observations on the Early Twelfth Dynasty in Egypt”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 45, 7-20.
KAMPP-SEYFRIED, Friederike (2003), “The Theban Necropolis: an overview of topography and tomb development from the Middle Kingdom to the Ramesside Period”, in N. Strudwick and J.H. Taylor (eds.), The Theban Necropolis: past, present and future, London, 2-10.
MASPERO, Gaston (1889), “Trois années de fouilles dans les tombeaux de Thèbes et de Memphis”, MMAF I, fasc. 2, Paris, 133-242.
MINIACI, Gianluca/GRAJETZKI, Wolfram (2015-2016), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC): contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources, London, Golden House Publications, 2 vols.
MORALES, Antonio J./OSMAN, Mohamed (2018), “Individual and Zeitgeist: textual and iconographic selections in the chapel of Harhotep (CG 28023)”, in L. Hudáková, P. Jánosi, and U. Siffert (eds.), Art-facts and artefacts: visualising the material world in Middle Kingdom Egypt, London, Golden House Publications, 85-99.
OBSOMER, Claude (1995), Sésostris Ier: Étude chronologique et historique du règne, Brussels.
OPPENHEIM, Adela/ARNOLD, Dorothea/ARNOLD, Dieter/YAMAMOTO, Kei (2015), Ancient Egypt transformed: the Middle Kingdom, New York.
POLZ, Daniel (2018), “The territorial claim and the political role of the Theban state at the end of the Second Intermediate Period: a case study”, in I. Forstner-Müller and N. Moeller (eds.), The Hyksos ruler Khyan and the early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: problems and priorities of current research. Proceedings of the workshop of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vienna, July 4-5, 2014, Wien, Holzhausen, 217-233.
POSTEL, Lilian (2004), Protocole des souverains égyptiens et dogma monarchique au début du Moyen Empire: Des premiers Antef au début du règne d’Amenemhat Ier, Monographies Reine Élisabeth 10, Turnhout.
RAGAZZOLI, Chloé (2017), La grotte des scribes à Deir el-Bahari: la tombe MMA 504 et ses graffiti, Le Caire, IFAO, MMA 135.
ROBINS, Gay (1990), “The Reign of Nebhepetre Montuhotep II and the Pre-Unification Theban Style of Relief”, in Beyond the Pyramids: Egyptian Regional Art from the Museo Egizio, Turin, Atlanta, 39-45.
ROEHRIG, Catharine (2002), “Life along the Nile. Three Egyptians of Ancient Thebes”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 60/1, 1-3, 6-56.
ROEHRIG, Catharine (1995), “The Early Middle Kingdom Cemeteries at Thebes and the tomb of Djari”, in J. Assmann et alii (eds.), Thebanische Beamtennekropolen, SAGA 12, Heidelberg, 255-269.
VALLOGGIA, Michel (1974), “Les vizirs des XIe et XIIe dynasties”, Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 74, 123-134.
VIČKOVÁ, Petra (2007), “The Theban area in the end of the 11th Dynasty and in the Middle Kingdom”, in J. Mynárová and P. Onderka (eds.), Thebes: city of gods and pharaohs, Prague, 48-61.
VOGEL, Carola (2003), “Fallen Heroes? Winlock’s “slain soldiers” reconsidered”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89, 239-245.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1947), The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom in Thebes, New York, Macmillan.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1945), The Slain Soldiers of Nebheptre Mentuhotep, New York.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1915), “The Theban Necropolis in the Middle Kingdom”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 32/1, 1-37.
Findings from Deir el-Bahari
ALLEN, Susan J. (2015), “An offering to Mentuhotep, son of Mentuhptep-ankhu, found at Thebes – MMA 26.3.316”, Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 19, 25-40.
ALLEN, Susan J. (1998), “Queen’s ware: royal funerary pottery in the Middle Kingdom”, in C.J. Eyre (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3-9 September 1995, Leuven, 39-48.
ARNOLD, Dorothea (1972), “Weiteres zur Keramik von el-Târif: Saff el-Dawâba, 1970/71”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 28, 33-46.
ARNOLD, Dorothea (1968), “Keramiksbeispiele aus den Gräbern der frühen 11. Dynastie von el-Târif”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 23, 38-67.
ARNOLD, Dorothea (2005), “The Architecture of Meketre’s Slaughterhouse and Other Early Twelfth Dynasty Wooden Models”, in P. Jánosi (ed.), Structure and Significance; Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, DÖAW 33, Vienna, 1-75.
CONSONNI, Anna/SESANA, Angelo (2016), “The pottery from a Middle Kingdom tomb in the area of the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II – Thebes”, in B. Bader, C.M. Knoblauch and C. Köhler (eds.), Vienna 2 – Ancient Egyptian Ceramics in the 21st Century, Leuven, OLA, 103-118.
CONSONNI, Anna (2016), “Precious finds from an early Middle Kingdom tomb in Thebes: reconstructing connections between the dead and their goods”, in G. Miniaci and W. Grajetzki (eds.), The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), vol. I, London, Middle Kingdom Studies 2, 13-26.
ECHEVERRÍA, Enrique/CELIS, Flavio/MORALES, Antonio/DA CASA, Fernando (2019), “The tomb of Ipi: 3D documentation in a Middle Kingdom Theban necropolis (Egypt, 2000 BCE)”, The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 42/2, 319-324.
ECHEVERRÍA, Enrique/CELIS, Flavio/MORALES, Antonio/DA CASA, Fernando (2019), “The tomb of Henenu, Luxor, Egypt: underground surveying”, in Gambardella, C. (ed.), World Heritage and Knowledge: Representation, Redesign, Resilience. XVI International Forum “Le Vie dei Mercanti”. Roma, Gangemi Editore, 642-650.
ESCHENBRENNER-DIEMER, Gersande (2013), Les «modèles» égyptiens en bois. Matériau, fabrication, diffusion, de la fin de l’Ancien à la fin du Moyen Empire (env. 2350-1630 av. J.-C.), PhD dissertation submitted to the Université Lyon.
FISCHER, Henry George (1959), “An Example of Memphite Influence in a Theban Stela of the Eleventh Dynasty”, Artibus Asiae 22, 240-252.
FISCHER, Henry George (1958), “Eleventh Dynasty Relief Fragments from Deir el Bahri”, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 24/2, 28-38.
GALÁN, José Manuel/GARCÍA, David (2019), “Twelfth Dynasty funerary gardens in Thebes”, Egyptian Archaeology 54, 4-8.
HALLMANN, Aleksandra (2015), “More items of funerary linen from the Deir el-Bahari burial assemblages”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 24/2, 113-136.
HAYES, William (1958), The Scepter of Egypt, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
LILYQUIST, Christine (1975), Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 33/2, Summer 1975.
PISCHIKOVA, Elena (1998), “Reliefs from the Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty: Reconstruction, Iconography, and Style”, The Metropolitan Museum Journal 33, 57-101.
ROEHRIG, Catharine H. (2003), “The Middle Kingdom tomb of Wah at Thebes”, in N. Strudwick and J.H. Taylor (eds.), The Theban necropolis: past, present and future, London, 11-13.
SÁNCHEZ CASADO, Raúl (2017), “A collection of ushabtis from the mortuary complex of Ipi at Deir el-Bahari (TT 315): typology, contexts, and dating”, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 73, 175-186.
SCHWAB, Angela (1989), Die Sarkophage des Mittleren Reiches: Eine Typologische Untersuchung für die 11. bis 13. Dynastie, PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Vienna.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1940), Models of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt from the Tomb of Meket-Re’, New York.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1940), “The Court of King Neb-Hepet-Re Mentu-Hotpe at the Shatt er Rigal”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 57/2, 137-161.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1940), “The mummy of Wah unwrapped”, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 35, 253-259.
Papyri and other written sources
ALLEN, James P. (2002), The Heqanakht Papyri , New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
BAER, Klaus (1963), “An Eleventh Dynasty Farmer’s Letters to His Family”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 83, 1-19.
DARNELL, John C. (1997), “The message of king Wahankh Antef II to Khety”, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 124, 101-108.
FÁBIÁN, Zoltán Imre (2018), “The autobiographic inscription of Seni-iqer (TT 185), a Theban dignitary of the late Old Kingdom”, in T.A. Bács et alii (eds.), Across the Mediterranean – Along the Nile: Studies in Egyptology, Nubiology and Late Antiquity dedicated to Lásló Török on the ocassion of his 75th birthday, vol. 1, Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 215-224.
GESTERMANN, Louise (1984), “Hathor, Harsomtus und Mntw-htpw”, in F. Junge (ed.), Studien zu Sprache und Religion Ägyptens: zu Ehren von Wolfhart Westendorf, überreicht von seinem Freunden und Schülern, Göttingen, 763-776.
GOEDICKE, Hans (1984), The Heqanakhte Papers, Baltimore, Halgo Press.
ILIN-TOMICH, Alexander (2015), “Theban administration in the Late Middle Kingdom”, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 142/2, 239-246.
JAMES, Thomas G.H. (1962), The Hekanakhte Papers and Other Early Middle Kingdom Documents, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MENU, Bernadette (1970), “La gestion du ‘patrimonie’ foncier d’Hekanakhte”, Revue d’Egyptologie 22, 111-129.
POSTEL, Lilian (2001), “La titulature des rois Antef de la Xie dynastie: État des questions et nouvelles perspectives”, Kyphi 3, 65-81.
QUIRKE, Stephen (1996), “Horn, Feather and Scale, and Ships: On Titles in the Middle Kingdom”, in P. der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, vol. II, Boston, 665-677.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1941), “Graffiti of the Priesthood of the Eleventh Dynasty Temples at Thebes”,The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 58/2, 146-168.
WINLOCK, Herbert E. (1940), “The Court of King Neb-Hepet-Re Mentu-Hotpe at the Shatt er Rigal”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 57/2, 137-161.
