Endnote 18 – “Place of the Beautiful Ones”

Ann M. Roth first proposed the hypothesis that deceased women were believed to assume a masculine postmortem identity before re-assuming their femininity with the help of their own feminine tomb images in “Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs about Conception and Fertility,” in Alison Rautman, ed., Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Philadelphia: 2000), pp. 199–200.