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Item The triumph and trade of Egyptian objects in Rome : collecting art in the ancient Mediterranean(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021) Pearson, StephanieFrom gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored: their role as precious goods in a collector?s economy. The Romans imported and recreated Egyptian goods in the most opulent materials available? gold, gems, expensive wood, ivory, luxurious textiles? and displayed them like true treasures. This is due in part to the way Romans encountered these items, as argued in this book: first as dazzling spolia from the war against Cleopatra, then as costly wares exchanged over the expanding Roman trade routes. In this respect, Romans treated Egyptian art surprisingly similarly to Greek art. By examining the concrete mechanisms through which Egyptian objects were acquired and displayed in Rome, this book offers a new understanding of this impressive material at the crossroads of Hellenistic, Roman, and Egyptian cultureItem The Greenfield Papyrus : funerary papyrus of a priestess at Karnak Temple (c. 950 BCE)(Peeters, 2023) Lenzo, GiuseppinaThe Greenfield Papyrus (P. BM EA 10554), at more than 37m in length, is the longest funerary papyrus surviving from ancient Egypt. Its content is highly original because it combines spells from the Book of the Dead with a 'mythological' section, as well as with hymns and litanies stemming from the context of temple liturgies. Furthermore, the selection of spells from the Book of the Dead provides very important insights into the Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BCE). The Greenfield Papyrus is also of central importance to an understanding of the evolution of the Book of the Dead, after the New Kingdom (1539-1069 BCE) and before the Late and Ptolemaic Periods (664-30 BCE). The owner of the papyrus, Nestanebetisheru, occupied a very important position as priestess in the temples of Karnak. Since this role probably gave her access to temple archives, she may have selected the texts of her papyrus herselfItem 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(Peeters, 2021) E. Christiana Köhlerhis 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 questionsItem The sheikh's house at Quseir Al-Qadim : documenting a thirteenth-century Red Sea port(Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2021) Strange Burke, Katherine; M. Goodman, Steven; Wetterstrom, WilmaThis study of a thirteenth-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast draws on multiple lines of evidence--including texts excavated at the site--to reconstruct a history of the structure and the people who dwelt within. The inhabitants participated in Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade, transported Ḥāǧǧ pilgrims, sent grain to Mecca and Medina, and wrote sermons and amulets for the local faithful. These activities are detailed in the documents and fleshed out in the botanical, faunal, artifact, and stratigraphic evidence from the University of Chicago's excavations (1978-82). This compound eventually consisted of two houses and a row of storerooms and became the center of mercantile activity at Quseir al-Qadim. Over time, as the number of named individuals who received shipping notes addressed to the "warehouse of Abū Mufarij" increased, living rooms and storerooms were added to accommodate this expansion of commerce. While most merchants were dealing in textiles, dates, and grains, additional commodities traded included perfumes, gemstone-decorated textiles, resist-dyed textiles, and porcelains. Specialist studies by Steven Goodman on the avian faunal remains and Wilma Wetterstrom on the macrobotanical finds reveal that the compound's occupants enjoyed a diet of chicken and Nile Valley produce such as grapes and watermelon, and they were supplemented by high-priced imports: nuts and fruits from around the Mediterranean, along with medicinal plants from as far away as India, indicate the wealth and status of this family of merchants. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyubid sultans of EgyptItem Transitions during the Early Bronze Age in the Levant : Methodological Problems and Interpretative Perspectives(Münster, Zaphon Verlag,, 2022) Adams, Matthew J.; Roux, ValentineItem Fayoum Survey Project :The Themistou Meris: Volume A: The Archaeological and Papyrological Survey(Peeters Publishers, 2019-05) Romer, CThe book is the result of an archaeological survey, and small excavations carried out between 2000 and 2016 in that part of the Fayoum; it offers descriptions of archaeological remains, many of them now under threat from land reclamation, gives information about the history and exact location of single sites, and values the excavations, which were undertaken there in the beginning of the 20th century, often with the sole aim of finding papyri, while archaeological features were neglected. The book seeks to combine the written and the archaeological evidence, offering new proposals for identifying ancient names with ancient sites, and gives a panorama of the multicultural society of the ancient FayoumItem The archive of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis : early Ptolemaic ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton)(The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago,, 2021) Muhs, Brian Paul; Jay, Jacqueline E.; Scalf, FoyThrough the publication and close examination of an archive of texts, the following volume attempts to reconstruct a microhistory of one man and his family working on the west bank of Thebes in the mortuary industry during the early Ptolemaic Period. Although only a rather rough micronarrative can be reconstructed for their activities, the integrity of the archive is essential to expanding and nuancing our view of these individuals and the associated events. Rarely have such collections been found in situ. 1 The forty-two ostraca published in this volume provide a rare opportunity to explore the intersections between an “intact” ancient archive of private administrative documents and the larger social and legal contexts into which they fit. A note is in order about the references throughout this volume. When referring to individual texts, cita tions follow the practice common in papyrology by using an accepted siglum, abbreviation, and number from the publication in which the text was published, e.g., O. Med. Habu, no. 63. Established sigla have been used where available. In certain cases, a siglum has been created because the authors thought it would prove useful to readers. Festschriften in which texts are consecutively numbered have been assigned sigla, e.g., FsZauzich 1. For texts found in publications without convenient sigla, they have been cited according to an author-date format followed by the number assigned by the original editor, e.g., Wångstedt 1968, no. 13, or by museum inventory number followed by an author-date reference, e.g., P. Berlin P. 3089 (Vittmann 1982, pp. 166–71). However, when a citation is made to the particular comments of the editor of the text, references follow the author-date format, e.g., Lichtheim 1957, p. 32. All bibliographic information for sigla and citations can be found in the list of abbreviations and sigla along with the bibliography. Line numbers to text are separated from their respective number by a period, so that O. Med. Habu, no. 63.1, signifies line 1 of the text assigned the catalog number sixty-three in Lichtheim 1957Item Remove that Pyramid! studies on the archaeology and history of predynastic and pharaonic Egypt in honour of Stan Hendrickx Remove that Pyramid! studies on the archaeology and history of predynastic and pharaonic Egypt in honour of Stan Hendrickx(Peeters, Leuven, 2021) Meyer, Marleen de; Eyckerman, Merel; Hendrickx, Stan