L. Roeten, 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, Archaeopress Egyptology 15, Archaeopress, Oxford 2016, xiv 144 pp., illustrations. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-78491-460-8
2019
Abstract
Leo Roeten's monograph is dedicated to the metrical analysis of non-royal tombs built in the principal cemeteries of the Memphite necropolis - Giza, Saqqara and Abusir. He analyses the evolution of the private mortuary architecture from a diachronic perspective based on the collected metric data.
Already in the introduction, R. presents the main prerequisite of the publication: during the Old Kingdom, the size of the non-royal tombs reduced gradually.