Egypt at its origins 6 : proceedings of the Sixth International Conference "Origin of the state. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Vienna, 10th-15th September 2017

: his volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", which this time was held at the University of Vienna in Austria from 10th to 15th of September 2017. With this new peer-reviewed volume of focused research on early Egypt, the 41 contributors dedicated their research to various questions surrounding prehistoric Egypt, the emergence of Pharaonic civilization and the territorial state. While some papers present new archaeological results from on-going excavations, others involve the analysis and interpretation of previously known evidence from the different regions along the Nile Valley. A large group of papers specifically discuss the area of ancient Memphis, which was also a central theme of the conference helping to summarize 20 years of research at the archaeological site of Helwan. Following the good tradition of previous Origins conferences, a very large number of papers are dedicated to the area of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta from early prehistoric through to the early Old Kingdom periods. These papers highlight the significance and enormous progress of archaeological fieldwork in an area that was long considered an uninhabitable swampland in prehistoric times. Other papers report on new fieldwork at different sites in a largely unexplored region of the Egyptian Nile Valley - the Eastern Desert of Middle Egypt, where active mining on a very large scale has taken place raising questions about the organization and scale of such activities during the formative periods of Egyptian civilization. There are numerous contributions on archaeological evidence from sites in Upper Egypt and their material culture, many of which having been excavated long ago but offering the opportunity to raise new questions

The 72nd annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt : APRIL 22-25, 2021 VIRTUAL

Statues in context : production, meaning and (re)uses

: Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried?0New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re- )uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range? from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity? and include statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples and houses, and the later biographies of statues?

Fayoum Survey Project :The Themistou Meris: Volume A: The Archaeological and Papyrological Survey

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New Approaches in Demotic Studies : Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies

: Der Band versammelt aktuelle Forschungen zu Texten in demotischer Sprache und Schrift, die in letzter Zeit auf Ausgrabungen entdeckt worden sind oder in Museen aufbewahrt werden; behandelt werden dabei religio?se, juristische und literarische Genres sowie Fragen zur alta?gyptischen Linguistik, der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Die Beitra?ge gehen zuru?ck auf die 2017 durchgefu?hrte Internationale Konferenz fu?r Demotische Studien in Leipzig