The Funerary Texts in the Tomb of Tjanehebu in Saqqara

The burial chambers of the Saqqara Saite-Persian shaft tombs are inscribed with funerary texts inherited from older religious corpora, known as the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. Using this textual heritage in tomb decoration is one of the representations of the so-called ‘archaism phenomenon’ common in Dynasty 26 (ca. 664–525 BC). My dissertation tackles the palaeography and philology of the text program inscribed in the burial chamber of Tjanehebu—a sarcophagus tomb in Saqqara dating to the Saite-Persian Period (ca. 664–332 BC).