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Cover illustration: Pyramid of Pepy I, P/F/W, photograph from author.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Billing, Nils, author.
Title: The performative structure : ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I / by Nils Billing.
Other titles: Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 4.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 4 | "This is a lightly revised version of a doctoral thesis in the History of Religions, defended in the spring term of 2013 at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University."
Identifiers: LCCN 2018020699 | ISBN 9789004372368 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Pyramid of Pepi I (Ṣaqqārah, Egypt) | Pepi I, King of Egypt, active 24th century B.C.-23rd century B.C.–Tomb. | Pyramids–Egypt–Ṣaqqārah. | Inscriptions, Egyptian–Egypt–Ṣaqqārah. | Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)–Antiquities. | Funeral rites and ceremonies–Egypt.
Classification: LCC BL2450.F8 B55 2018 | DDC 299.31388–dc23
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