{"pk":3954,"title":"Ancestor Bust","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Ancestor busts (also known as anthropoid busts) date to the New Kingdom. The majority of extant examples are from Deir el-Medina. They are most commonly interpreted as belonging to the cult of the recently deceased—that is, the ancestor cult.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"anthropoid"},{"word":"ancestor cult"},{"word":"Deir el-Medina"},{"word":"Religion"},{"word":"Archaeological Anthropology"},{"word":"Art History, Criticism and Conservation"},{"word":"Near Eastern Languages and Societies"}],"section":"Material Culture, Art and Architecture","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59k7832w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Karen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Exell","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Manchester Museum","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2007-09-29T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2007-09-29T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2008-04-18T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3954/galley/2530/download/"}]}