Marsa Matruh : the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's excavations on Bates's Island, Marsa Matruh, Egypt, 1985-1989 /
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"The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Expedition to Marsa Matruh"--Pref.
Maps on lining papers. :
2 volumes : illusturations, maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
1931534004
1931534012
Searching for ancient Egypt : art, architecture, and artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology /
: Exhibition venues: Dallas Museum of Art, Sept. 28, 1997-Feb. 1, 1998; Denver Art Museum, Apr. 3-Aug. 2, 1998; Seattle Art Museum, Oct. 15, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999; Joslyn Art Museum, Mar. 27-July 25, 1999; Birmingham Museum of Art, Oct. 3, 1999-Jan. 16, 2000; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mar. 15-July 23, 2000. : 342 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index. : 0801434823 (alk. paper)
Treasures from the royal tombs of Ur /
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Chiefly a catalogue of a traveling exhibition scheduled for eight venues between Oct. 9, 1998 and May 2001. Cf. title page verso. :
xv, 195 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188). :
0924171545
9780924171543
Special Delivery to Wah-sut: An Eighteenth Dynasty Ostracon’s Inventory of Precious Materials /
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The following publication analyzes Ostracon SA. 2708 discovered during 2001 University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations in the ancient South Abydos town, Wah-sut. The ostracon enumerates a local delivery of unworked precious and semiprecious materials including gold, lapis lazuli, and jasper during the Eighteenth Dynasty. The ostracon provides a glimpse into the development and continued occupation of Wah-sut from the late Middle Kingdom into the New Kingdom and reveals evidence of deliveries of semiprecious stones in South Abydos not otherwise represented in the archaeological record. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.52.2016.a015
Experiencing power, generating authority : cosmos, politics, and the ideology of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /
: "The work contained in this volume is the result of a four-day workshop entitled 'Experiencing power--Generating Authority : Cosmos, Politics, and the Ideology of Kingship in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia' held in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology November 2007."--Page [xxvii]. : xxx, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781934536643
Landscapes of movement : Trails, paths, and roads in anthropological perspectives /
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"Represents the results of the inaugural Penn Museum International Research Conference, 'Landscapes of Movement: Trails, Paths, and Roads in Anthropological Perspective' ... at the Penn Museum May 29-June 2, 2006." -- Pref. :
xviii, 364 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
193453613X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781934536131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
The Barque of Wenut-Shemau at the Sed-Festival: An Old Kingdom Temple Relief from Herakleopolis /
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In the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum is a limestone relief depicting a king at life-size engaged in a boat ritual as part of the Sed-festival. Discovered in 1904 at Herakleopolis, this object can be dated, based on context, iconography, and style to the early Old Kingdom. Only the upper part of this monumental relief is preserved and the name of the king does not survive. However, the associated labels show that the scene depicted a king, accompanied by Iunmutef, receiving the barque of the goddess Wenut-Shemau, or Nekhbet, at the Sed-festival. This relief, reused in the foundations of the Twelfth Dynasty at Herakleopolis derives from what was evidently a large-format tableau of Sed-festival scenes in a royal cult complex of the Old Kingdom. The relief is a forerunner to scenes in the Twentieth Dynasty tomb of Setau at El Kab depicting the arrival of Wenut-Shemau at the site of the Sed-festival. The ceremonial mooring of the barques of Wadjet and Nekhbet at the Sed-festival may form a central, but hitherto unrecognized, element of the Sed-festival. The closest surviving parallels to the Herakleopolis scene occur in fragmentary reliefs from the Valley Temple of Sneferu at Dahshur. Attribution is proposed to Huni, Sneferu or Khufu. The Sed-festival block may have been transported to Herakelopolis from one of the Memphite pyramid complexes, or from Meidum, during the early Twelfth Dynasty. Alternatively, the relief may derive from an early Old Kingdom royal complex at Herakelopolis itself, possibly originating in a mortuary complex of Huni that once stood at that site. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.53.2017.a007