Statue und Kult.
Eine Studie der funerären Praxis an nichtköniglichen Grabanlagen der Residenz im Alten Reich.
Internet-Beiträge zur Ägyptologie und Sudanarchäologie, Vol. III (IBAES III)
Berlin 2001.
The focus of the study is the non-royal ("private") tomb statue of the Old Kingdom (3rd to 6th dynasties). The study is restricted to more or less well-recorded findings from the residential cemeteries (Medum, Dahshur, Saqqara, Giza, Abu Rawash). Observations on the actual position of statues within the tomb are included, followed by a discussion of architectural and functional components of a residential funerary complex. Further a certain number of two-dimensional representations and inscriptions are consulted for the discussion of special topics.
The aim of the study is to investigate the function of a cultural object within the frame of social practice. By using the tomb statue as an example and by restricting the topic spatially to the residence and temporally to the Old Kingdom, it is possible to detect how - on the basis of habitual concepts and patterns of action - a cultural object has been developed and activated by a specific social group (inhabitants of the residence) in the frame of funerary practice in a specific historical situation (consolidation of the centre of an early state). Using a wider score of sources it is thus possible to sketch the reality of funerary practice of a specific period.
Fitzenreiter, Martin.
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Martin Fitzenreiter has made a large amount of his articles available for download at his bibliography page:http://www.m-fitzenreiter.de/Publikation.html
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