Figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt: Iconography and Intent
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The aim of the study is to examine a particular set of images found only on ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt. These scenes show women, often with a child, sitting on a bed in a domestic environment; alternatively, they depict women with a child in a kiosk, in an outdoor setting. The purpose of this research is to examine why these images were drawn and to explore what these representations meant to their creators and viewers. The functionality of the ostraca will also be analysed, considering if they were objects in their own right or merely practice pieces for larger scale compositions.
Conservation of the Tomb of Anen
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Located on necropolis of the West Bank of Luxor, the tomb of Anen belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest who served under the reign of Amenhotep III. Over time, the tomb had deteriorated and the roof caved in, filling the tomb with rubble and subjecting the wall paintings to light, heat, and water damage, as well as looters. This project, sponsored by the Royal Ontario Museum, was to conserve and protect the tomb of Anen (TT120), as well as the paintings inside.
In addition to stabilizing and reinforcing the walls of the tomb, the conservators mechanically cleaned the reliefs with brushes and scalpels and repaired the mission sections through re-adhered fragments with special mortar. Paintings that had been damaged or removed were restored, mimicking an ancient painting technique where craftsmen sketched the relief images in red ink before filling them with color. The team also constructed a protective display box over the restored wall reliefs to protect them from human or environmental damage and built a series of low slanted walls along the top edges of the tomb to divert rainwater.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) managed the implementation of the conservation of the tomb of Anen in the Theban Necropolis in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (formerly the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities). Lyla Pinch-Brock, co-director of the Royal Ontario Theban Tombs Project based in Toronto, Canada, served as director of the project, aided by conservator Ewa Paradonwska and architect Nicholas Warner. Photographs were taken by Edwin C. Brock and Francis Dzikowski. :
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Conservation of the monument was funded through the American Research Center in Egypt's Egyptian Antiquities Project (ARCE-EAP) under United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 (formerly 263-0000-G-00-308900).
Akhenaten Talatat Project Conservation
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Talatat blocks, possibly derived from the Arabic word talata meaning “three,” measure roughly three handspans long. Characterized by their Amarna style and smaller size compared to conventional building blocks, they are the result of King Akhenaten’s (1352-1336 BC) goal to urgently erect religious buildings for his “new supreme god” Aten, first in Thebes (ancient Luxor) and later the new city of Akhetaten in Middle Egypt. The talatat blocks were first discovered in the late 19th century and increasingly excavated from then onwards. There are currently approximately 60,000 known blocks, believed to be only a fraction of what exists.
The largest repository of talatat blocks resides in the Pennsylvania Magazine in the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor. The Magazine is directly adjacent to the west wall of the Khonsu Temple and stores approximately 16,000 blocks, the majority of which are sandstone (with a few limestone examples). Used to construct temples for the god Aten, the blocks were subsequently dismantled by Akhenaten’s successors, who reused them in other structures. Previously, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, the blocks were photographed and documented in situ by Akhenaten Temple Project staff, under the auspices of the Penn Museum (also referred to as the University Museum, Pennsylvania).
From 2008 to 2012, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Akhenaten Talatat Project Conservation staff cleaned, conserved, photographed, and recorded approximately 16,000 talatat blocks in the Magazine. The blocks had sustained damage which included dangerously leaning stacks; collapsed stacks; dust and bird droppings due to gaps in the roof; hornets’ nests and damage caused by animal burrowing. Matjaž Kačičnik photographed the preliminary conditions of the 28 stacks in the Magazine before project staff proceeded with removing, cleaning, and conserving blocks; some of the shattered blocks were reassembled with steel pins. Documentation included the use of digital photography and database recording. After structural interventions that addressed damage incurred from animal activity and dust accumulation, the blocks were restored in the Pennsylvania Magazine.
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Conservation of the Akhenaten Talatat blocks in the Pennsylvania Magazine was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Agreement No. 263-A-00-04-00018-00 under the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP), and through the administration and facilitation of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
Prosopographia Memphitica : individuelle Identita?ten und Kollektive Biographien einer ko?niglichen Residenzstadt des Neuen Reichs
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Memphitische Grabanlagen des Neuen Reiches (1550-1070 v. Chr.) stellen eine Fu?lle an Personendaten zur Verfu?gung und bilden damit die wichtigste Informationsquelle hinsichtlich der in der ko?niglichen Residenzstadt Memphis lebenden und arbeitenden Bevo?lkerung. Um ein mo?glichst repra?sentatives Bild dieser Stadt und seiner Bewohner zu zeichnen, wurden die prosopographischen Zeugnisse zuna?chst in einem umfassenden Corpus zusammengestellt. Die Materialsammlung erreicht dabei eine im Vergleich in der A?gyptologie fu?r diesen Zeitraum bislang noch nicht prosopographisch verarbeitete Gro?ssenordnung. Die Bereitstellung der multidimensionalen Daten in digitaler Form (https://www.prosopographia-memphitica.com) ermo?glicht eine, ihrer Quantita?t und Qualita?t getreuen Wiedergabe und bildet damit eine Weiterentwicklung innerhalb der prosopographischen Forschung. Neuartig ist ausserdem die Verbindung traditioneller Forschungsschwerpunkte mit Methoden der historischen Sozialforschung und computerbasierten Verfahrenstechniken der Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften, durch die einzelne Personen nicht als isolierte Einheiten, sondern als Individuen definiert werden, die auf sozialer Ebene untereinander agieren und soziale Bindungen eingehen.
Miṣr wa-al-Nīl fī arbaʻat kutub ʻālamīyah : al-Nīl, al-nahr wa-al-nās, Mashriq al-quwwah, Ramsīs al-Akbar, sayyid al-ʻālam, al-Muʾassasah al-ʻaskarīyah al-Miṣrīyah fī ʻaṣr al-Imbrā...
: Book reviews for four books : The Nile / by E. Barton Worthington, Sunrise of power / by Joyce Milton, Ramses the Great master of the world / by William MacQuitty, Officers and officials in the New Kingdom / by Ahmed Kadry. : 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Les peintres de l'Égypte ancienne : leur langage, leurs palettes, leurs styles /
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"La peinture de l'Égypte ancienne est essentiellement une peinture murale funéraire. C'est à Thèbes, l'actuelle Louqsor, qu'elle connut son plus grand développement, vers 1539-1077 av. J.-C. (Nouvel Empire) et c'est uniquement de cette peinture-là, plus exactement celle qui orne les tombeaux de particuliers, non les hypogées de la Vallée des Rois et de la Vallée des Reines, qu'il est question ici. L'objectif principal de Nadine Cherpion est l'étude du style dans les tombes thébaines. Par style, on entend aussi bien la dominante de couleurs d'un monument que la courbure d'une perruque ou la longueur d'une chute de reins. C'est ce qui fait 'l'esprit' d'une époque, voire d'un règne. Les études sur le style dans la peinture égyptienne sont peu nombreuses et souvent épuisées ou partielles (Wegner 1933, Mekhitarian 1954, Hofmann 2004). D'autre part, un sujet aussi subtil que le style peut sans difficulté être repris à intervalles réguliers avec un regard neuf. Quittant volontiers les frontières de l'égyptologie, l'auteur replace la peinture thébaine dans le cadre de l'histoire universelle de la peinture, ce qui constitue l'un des aspects novateurs de son propos, tout comme la remise à plat de la datation. Bien plus qu'une compilation, ce livre est un travail de synthèse original, réalisé en grande partie sur le terrain. Il est illustré de nombreuses photographies prises, pour la plupart, par J.-Fr. Gout à la demande de l'auteur et souvent inédites. L'histoire du style proprement dite est précédée de quelques pistes de réflexion sur le sens et la lecture des images égyptiennes. Par la clarté de l'exposé et la qualité de l'iconographie, l'ouvrage s'adresse autant à l'amateur d'art qu'au public spécialisé"--Page 4 of cover.
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382 pages : color illustrations, plan ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-367) and index. :
9782874571374 :
1784-2786 ;
The cost of death : the social and economic value of ancient Egyptian funerary art in the Ramesside period /
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Revision of thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2002.
CD-ROM includes JPEG illustrations. :
xv, 509 pages, [7] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789062582228
Nubian pottery from Egyptian cultural contexts of the Middle and early New Kingdom : proceedings of a workshop held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Cairo, 1-12 December...
: 232 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9783900305628 : 1727-2502 ;
Ramesside inscriptions translated & annotated : notes and comments /
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Volumes of annotations to accompany the volumes of Ramesside inscriptions translations. :
volumes : maps ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
0631184341 (v. 1)
063118435X (v. 2)
9780631184362 (v. 3)
9780631184379 (v. 4)
Chairs, stools, and footstools in the New Kingdom : production, typology, and social analysis /
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Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D)--Johns Hopkins University, 2010.
"40 years of BAR"--Back cover. :
xix, 243 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781407312217
'Scènes de Gynécées' : figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt : iconography and intent /
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This work examines images of women and children drawn on ostraca from Deir el-Medina, referred to in previous scholarship as 'Scènes de Gynécées'. This publication represents the first systematic study of this material, and it brings together ostraca from museums worldwide to form a corpus united contextually, thematically and stylistically.
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1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations. :
Specialized. :
9781789693461 (ebook) :
The Medinet Habu records of the foreign wars of Ramesses III /
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The Medinet Habu Records of the Foreign Wars of Ramesses III is a new translation and commentary of the Textual record of Ramesses III's military activity. As such it dwells heavily upon the inscriptions dealing with Libyans and Sea Peoples. Since the format is oral formulaic, the texts are scanned and rendered as lyric. The new insights into the period covered by the inscriptions leads to a new appraisal of the identity of Egypt's enemies, as well as events surrounding the activity of the Sea Peoples. The exercise is not intended to dismiss, but rather to complement the archaeological evidence.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004354180 :
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