Roeten, Leo: 2016 Chronological developments in the Old Kingdom tombs in the necropoleis of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir: toward an economic decline during the early dynastic period and the Old Kingdom, Oxford: Archaeopress
Abstract
The analytical study by Leo Roeten is dedicated to a metrical analysis of the principal tombs of Old Kingdom Egypt, focusing on the cemeteries of Abusir, Saqqara and Giza. It is these cemeteries which provide the bulk of information concerning the period, and which mediate the principal characteristics of the long era that comprises the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom, understood in a classical way as consisting of the Third to Sixth Dynasties (about 2950-2200 BC).
In fact, this latest publication by Roeten develops some of his former ideas related to the Old Kingdom tomb development, formulated in his 2014 study which appeared under the title The Decoration on the Cult Chapel Walls of the Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza. A New Approach to their Interaction (Leiden - Boston: Brill).