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Book Review| September 01 2010 Review: Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht, by Dieter Arnold Dieter Arnold; Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht; Expedition Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 28 (New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2008), 270 pp., 170 b/w and color illus., 18 text illus. $75, ISBN 9780300123449 Gay Robins Gay Robins Emory University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2010) 69 (3): 440–441. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.3.440 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gay Robins; Review: Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht, by Dieter Arnold. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2010; 69 (3): 440–441. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.3.440 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search It is an odd fact that many of the provincial tombs of twelfth-dynasty (ca. 1991–1783 BC) officials are better known than are the tombs of high officials that surround the pyramids of the kings of that dynasty in the royal cemeteries at Lisht and Dahshur. This book on Middle Kingdom non-royal tomb architecture at Lisht, the site of the pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senwosret I, the first two kings of the twelfth dynasty, is therefore very welcome. It is primarily based on work carried out under the auspices of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906–34 and again in 1984–91. Although the main focus is the architecture of the tombs, it also includes what remains of the relief decoration, painting, and inscriptions, as well as statuary and sarcophagi. The book is divided into two major parts: the tombs at Lisht-South and those at Lisht-North. A third and much shorter... You do not currently have access to this content.
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