The investigations carried out over the last decades in various archaeological sites across Egypt and the discovery of mortuary written artefacts in their original settings are shedding new light on the complexity of the funerary practices performed in the aftermath of the Roman conquest. When recontextualized inscribed coffins, shrouds, funerary masks, portraits, seals, labels, and bandages allow us to reconstruct the different stages of the funerary praxis, from the transportation of the deceased to the embalming workshops and the painstaking labours of mummy-making until the last funerary rituals performed in the necropolises.

This talk aims to explore the materiality of death in this highly transformative phase and demonstrate the endurance of the Egyptian funerary institutions until the beginning of Late Antiquity.