Ebook: The dance scene of Wa'tetkhethor: an art historical approach to the role of dance in Old Kingdom funerary ritual

In 1979, the late Dr. Alexander Badawy asked me whether the dance scene found in chamber B3 of the mastaba of Mereruka was one dance scene or a compilation of several dance scenes. The following work is the result of this conversation. As work progressed I began to see that unimagined aspects were contained in the dance of Wa'tetkhethor.