Information Sources

Bibliography of Middle Kingdom Tomb Models (in English)

Most of the information in the models database is taken from the works listed here.

Studies of Tomb Models

• James Henry Breasted Jr, Egyptian Servant Statues. Pantheon Books, New York, 1948.
• Angela Tooley, Egyptian Models and Scenes. Shire Publications, 1999 ISBN 0-7478-0285-8.
• Angela Tooley, Middle Kingdom Burial Customs, a Study of Wooden Models and Related Material. University of Liverpool - PhD thesis, 1989.

Sites and Individual Tombs

• Meketre (Thebes)
  Herbert Eustis Winlock, Models of daily life in ancient Egypt, from the tomb of Meket-Re at Thebes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955.
• Wadjethotep (Sedment), Nekhetkawi (Sedment) and Gemniemhat (Saqqara)
  Mogens Jørgensen Tomb Treasures from Ancient Egypt. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 2002, ISBN 87-7452-261-2
• Beni Hasan
  John Garstang Burial Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. Constable, London, 1907
• Sedment
  Flinders Petrie. Guy Brunton Sedment I, BSAE XXXIV. London, 1924
• Djehutynakht (el Bersheh)
  Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman, Denise M. Doxey, Nicholas Picardo
  The Secrets of Tomb 10A : Egypt 2000 BC Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2009 ISBN 0878467475
• The Two Brothers (Rifeh)
  This tomb only contained two models (4734, 4738). But it is a well documented undisturbed tomb of the period.
  Margaret Murray The Tomb of Two Brothers. Manchester Museum Handbooks,1910
  Rosalie David The Two Brothers. Rutherford Press, 2007.
• The Tomb of Theteti(Saqqara)
  This tomb was excavated by Firth and Gunn in the 1920's but was not published. Its contents were identified and described by Peterson in 1985.
  Bengt Peterson Finds from the Theteti Tomb at Saqqara pp. 3-24, Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin 20, Stokholm 1985

Catalogues Describing Tomb Models

• The Secrets of Tomb 10A : Egypt 2000 BC Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman, Denise M. Doxey, Nicholas Picardo, MFA, Boston 2009. ISBN 0878467475 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• Tomb treasures from ancient Egypt (Gravskatte fra det gamle Ægypten), Mogens Jørgensen, 2002, ISBN: 87-7452-261-2.
• La Glyptotheque Ny Carlsberg: La Collection Egyptienne, Maria Mogensen, 1930.
• Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum, Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley. Stationery Office Books, 1995. ISBN: 0-11-290538-2
• Mummies & Magic - The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, D'Auria, Lacovara and Loehrig. MFA, Boston, 1988. ISBN: 0-87846-303-8. pp. 109-117
• Ombres d'Egypte : le peuple de Pharaoh, 1999, ISBN: 2-87149-035-X.
• Beyond the Pyramids, 1990, ISBN: 0963816926
• Life and Death under the Pharaohs Schneider, H. D., Perth 1997, ISBN: 07309 8993 3.

Bibliography of the Models Database

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Other Information

The contents of a typical tomb of this period.

Museums with tomb models

Tombs rich in models