ON THE LONGEVITY OF THE χοαχ(v)ται IN THEBES AND ELSEWHERE

摘要

There were many kinds of funerary workers and undertakers in Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt.Separate functionaries were involved in the mummifi cation,interment,funeral rites,and care of the dead after entombment,1and among these were some who commonly are referred to by the Greek titleχοαχ?ται(hereafter:choachytes).2This term has been interpreted as deriving from the Greek