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Item Der Nil in Aswân : Inschriften und Heiligtümer(De Gruyter, 2022) Johannes Seidlmayer, StephanÄgypten ist das Land des Nils. Bei Aswân durchbricht der Fluss eine Felsbarriere aus Granit und bildet die Stromschnellen des Ersten Katarakts. Hier tritt der Nil in das Siedlungsgebiet Ägyptens ein. Sein jährlicher Flutzyklus - rund 8 m betrug die Differenz zwischen Niedrig- und Hochwasser - hatte enorme praktische Auswirkungen auf Verkehr und Transport in dieser Grenz- und Steinbruchregion, vor allem aber für die Wirtschaft des ganzen Landes. Das Alte Ägypten lokalisierte die Quellen der Nilflut in der spektakulären Felslandschaft des Ersten Katarakts, und in den Nilometern im Gebiet von Aswân wurde der Verlauf des lebensentscheidenen Naturphänomens seit ältester Zeit präzise beobachtet und vermessen. Die Ursachen der Nilflut dachte das Alte Ägypten in religiösen Kategorien. In den Riten und Mythen um die Gottheiten in den Tempeln der Region wurden Theorien der sakralen Kontrolle der Flut formuliert. Den Nil technisch zu kontrollieren, blieb der Neuzeit vorbehalten. Die großen Staudämme bei Aswân stehen für dieses letzte Kapitel in der Geschichte des Stroms. Daher eignet sich der Nil als Leitmotiv, Landschaft, Denkmäler, Bilder und Inschriften der Region von Aswân seit ältester Zeit und bis in die Gegenwart zu betrachtenItem Papyri copticae magicae = Coptic magical texts. Volume 1, Formularies(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023) Dosoo, Korshi; Preininger, MarkétaThis volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them - heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the textItem The Royal Mortuary Cult Complex in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. Part I : the Chapel of Tuthmosis I(Peeters, 2021) M. BarwikThe volume is an "editio princeps" of the Chapel of Thutmosis I, a shrine located in the southern part of the upper terrace of the Theban funerary complex of Hatshepsut. The shrine was built by order of the queen to commemorate her father and housed the pharaoh?s mortuary cult in relation to that celebrated for the queen in the adjoining Chapel of Hatshepsut. Its decoration, patterned upon that of the Chapel of Hatshepsut, although significantly smaller in scale, follows iconographic schemes in vogue from the illustrious era of the Old Kingdom and the pyramid temples of the great pharaohs of more than a thousand years earlier.0Forgotten and completely demolished after the mortuary cults ceased to be celebrated in the royal temples at Deir el-Bahari, the chapel has been mostly inaccessible until now. It has now been studied and a reconstruction of its fragmented decoration has been proposed, linking the preserved remains and the separate blocks and fragments painstakingly positioned above them, to aid in a visual identification of what is in situ and what is not. An exhaustive architectural analysis appended to the volume, including axonometric views, places the decoration in the context of the temple and its building historyItem The construction of value in the ancient world(Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012) Papadopoulos, John K.; Urton, GaryScholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over anotherItem SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : Fall 2023 | ISSUE12(The American Research Center in Egypt, 2023)Updates on excavation, conservation, and research projects developing across Egypt Dr. Louise Bertini Executive Director ARCE in action on our 75th year W elcome to the new issue of Scribe magazine! We hope you had a great summer and are now ready to hear the latest interesting news about ARCE’s ongoing work in Egypt and about our plans for the final months of our 75th anniversary. Over the last six months, ARCE staff, officers, members, and our partners have been organizing and hosting events, developing our library and online resources, and working with excavators, academics, conservation experts, officials, and heritage management teams from Egypt and around the world. In May, we hosted our 74th Annual Meeting in the Minneapolis Marriot City Center hotel and conference venue, followed the weekend after by the virtual online conference. Both events were very successful. In addition to a slate of outstanding presentations, attendees were treated to special panel sessions and an exclusive museum workshop entitled ‘Engaging Egypt and Africa in Museum Settings’. The keynote address was a joint presentation by Dr. Betsy Bryan and Dr. Fayza Haikal, who recounted deeply personal stories in their talk entitled “Women in Egyptology: Long Career Reflections”. This was delivered at the magnificent Minneapolis Institute of Art and surely left a lasting impression on all who were in attendance. Next year, the 75th annual in-person meeting will take place in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, from April 19th to 21st at the Omni William Penn hotel. In Egypt, ARCE hosted the Cultural Property Protection conference with delegates attending from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Palestine. This was made possible thanks to generous funding from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA), the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), and the US Department of State. The conference focused on “Sustainable Documentation and Inventories Management” and ended on a promising note where recommendations were drafted based on more than thirty presentations by regional experts. Rec- ommendations included the formation of an “Arab World Heritage” network, increasing collaboration through regional joint projects, and the development of regional training initiatives.Item SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2023 | ISSUE11(The American Research Center in Egypt, 2023)Updates on developments taking place in the United States and Egypt Building a New Foundation for Our Future, 2023-2028 I n November of last year, the ARCE executive team presented an exclusive, members-only virtual town hall webinar that set out ARCE’s new vision for the future. Board of Governors President Dr. David Anderson, Executive Director Dr. Louise Bertini, and US Director Liska Radachi presented ARCE's new strategic plan, developed after many months of consultation with staff, chapter leaders, focus groups, and nearly five hundred members and associates.Item SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : Fall 2022 | ISSUE 10(The American Research Center in Egypt, 2022)The Celebrations Continue! E veryone interested in ancient Egypt knows of the events being celebrated this year in Egypt and throughout the world of Egyptology. It is of course the centennial of Howard Carter’s amazing discovery of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, and also the bicentennial of Jean-François Champollion’s demonstration that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs could once again be read and understood. ARCE has thus continued rolling out its suite of events, bringing the celebrations to fruition! Programs In April, ARCE held its 73rd Annual Meeting in Irvine, California where we celebrated these momentous events with our keynote speaker, the current and 8th Earl of Carnarvon, Lord George Herbert. To further mark the centennial, we kicked-off our national chapter lecture tour in June with Dr. Marc Gabolde, who shared the fascinating story of the fate of several missing artifacts ‘diverted’ away from Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Virtual Annual Meeting also connected researchers and members from around the world, to participate and share their own research findings. Both virtual and in-person lectures were recorded and are all now online, helping more members experience the lectures at their own convenience. A sincere thank you to all the ARCE staff and members who helped make both the virtual and in-person Annual Meeting such a well-organized and successful event. We also have a number of exciting events coming up including the continuation of the Tutankhamun Centennial Chapter Lecture Tour with Dr. Betsy Bryan, who will be travelling to Chicago, Kansas City, North Texas, and Atlanta chapters between September 26th and October 3rd. The special event Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference carried out in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will take place in Luxor from November 4th-6th, 2022, and we are honored to continue our partnership with National Geographic through our collaboration with their Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience project in providing content and partnership programming. See their advertisement in this issue for a discount code to visit the exhibition and stay tuned to ARCE.org for more information! Fieldwork In Luxor, the renovations of Howard Carter’s house continue thanks to the generous donation by long-time ARCE board member Adina Savin. In this issue of Scribe, ARCE’s Sally El Sabbahy and Nicholas Warner review the fascinating history behind the construction of Carter’s house and its use in the years following the discovery of KV62. In the next issue coming out in early 2023, the team will review the outcome of the conservation efforts and report on the grand re-opening of the house scheduled for November of this year, on the actual centennial of Carter opening the tomb on the 4th of November, 1922. Media Tour In June, ARCE hosted a special media tour to highlight ARCE Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) projects, Research Supporting Member projects, and past USAID-funded projects in Cairo. The tour included a visit to the Great Pyramid to see the results of the Ancient Egypt Research Associate’s (AERA) AEF-funded project to record and better-protect Khufu’s Mortuary Temple. The most visible change is the installation of a new access walkway encircling the remains of the temple’s formidable black basalt pavement, which should provide a more secure and less damaging path from which to see the surviving monumental remains. The tour also visited the Fatimid-era Bab Zuwayla gate, one of three surviving entrances that controlled access to the fortified medieval city of Old Cairo, where from 1998-2003, ARCE spearheaded an intense conservation project, with support from USAID and under the supervision of Nairy Hampikian, to remove, restore, and re-install the Bab Zuwayla’s sizable wood and iron doors. The final site visited was the Church of the blessed Virgin Mary, Saint George, and Abu Sefein to see some of the many Coptic icons that that were restored thanks to conservation efforts led by ARCE between 1998-2004. It is so important to revisit these successful projects in conjunction with the media and our colleagues from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. They show just how great an impact the USAID grants, member donations, and endowments funds have ‘in the field’.Item SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2022 | ISSUE9(The American Research Center in Egypt, 2022)Updates on excavation, conservation, and research projects developing across Egypt Dr. Louise Bertini Executive Director Celebrating the Centennial A fter two years of adapting and adjusting, we are thrilled to resume hosting our most important programmatic event of the year, the ARCE Annual Meeting in-person. Warmest welcome to our members and attendees who are joining us in California, as well as those continuing to tune in from across the globe for our virtual component. I’d like to thank our Annual Meeting sponsors:* Keynote Presentation Sponsor National Geographic, President’s Reception Sponsor Getty Conservation Institute, and our official Airline Sponsor EgyptAir. Thank you as well as to our keynote speaker, George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, for helping us to mark this special centennial year celebrating the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. In addition to our regular programs and fieldwork, ARCE has been rolling out a suite of Tutankhamun-themed content to celebrate the 100-year anniversary, from lectures to a member tour.Item New frontiers in archaeology : proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2019(Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2020) Kaercher, Kyra; Arntz, Monique; Bomentre, Nancy; Hermoso-Buxán, Xosé L.; Kay, Kevin; Ki, Sabrina; Macleod, Ruairidh; Muñoz-Mojado, Helena; Timbrell, Lucy; Wisher, IzzyThis volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13?15, 2019. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience.0The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today?s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessionsItem Kom al-Ahmer — Kom Wasit II: Coin Finds 2012-2016: Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer(Archaeopress, 2019) Asolati, Michele; Mondin, Cristinaand Kom Wasit, to investigate them intensively and reveal their importance. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit are located 6 km west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, 35 km south of Rosetta, 40 km southeast of the port of Thonis-Heracleion, and 52 km southeast of the port of Alexandria (Figures i–ii). Given their well-connected location with respect to these Mediterranean and Nile ports, it can be assumed that a significant volume of commercial traffic moved through these sites. Historical sources and Hellenistic and Roman geographers located the capital of the Metelite nome in this region, and our research has made it possible to identify the likely location of the nome capital, Metelis, at Kom al-Ahmer, at least during the Roman, Late Roman, and Early Arab periods. This short introduction discusses the results of the study of two cultural materials finds, coins and pottery that brought to light massive information that can be gathered from a Delta site.