Woodcutters, Potters and Doorkeepers: Service Personnel of the Deir El-Medina Workmen

by E Frood, Jj Janssen, M Goecke-Bauer

The community of necropolis workmen of Deir el-Medina was part of the administrative branch responsible for the preparation of the royal tombs. To this department also belonged several groups of service personnel. This volume presents separate studies on three groups of this service staff. Two of these belonged to the so-called smdt, namely the woodcutters and the potters, while the third group occupies a position somewhere in between the workmen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9062582176
• ISBN13: 9789062582174
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 178 Pages