For all those interested in Egyptology.
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Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 4 days, 19 hours ago
This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]
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Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited The Grammar of Ornamentation: An Egyptian Predynastic Decorative Continuum in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Tags made of mudstone are predominantly found in ancient Egyptian Predynastic cemetery contexts. This study examines the symbolism and significance of mudstone tags that are crescent-shaped and/or feature the recurved horns of hartebeests. The use of syncretic imagery on these tags provides evidence for the fluidity of artistic perceptions in…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago
Egyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 11 months, 4 weeks ago
This note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
New evidence on scholarly patronage under the Roman empire can be garnered by analyzing the descriptions of learned magoi in several texts from the second to the fourth century CE. Since a common use of the term magos connoted flatterer-like figures (kolakes), it is likely that the figures of “learned sorcerers” found in texts such as Luc…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited Messengers and Envoys within Egyptian-Hittite Relationships in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Several documents from Egypt and Ḫatti (especially the Amarna letters and the Egyptian-Hittite correspondence) mention envoys and messengers in charge of diplomatic contacts between the two countries. Cuneiform and hieroglyphic transcriptions of Egyptian names at Ugarit hint at an actual presence (in Ugarit and Karkemish) of officials coming f…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited When Isis “moored” Osiris: The many meanings of mni in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
The Great Hymn to Osiris on the Stele of Amenmose (Louvre C 286) constitutes the most complete Egyptian account of the Osiris myth. The Hymn says that, when Isis eventually located Osiris’s body, she “moored her brother”; accordingly, the verb mni is used to describe one of the most crucial events in the core myth of ancient Egypt. This commu…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Isis and Horus in the Delta to Mary and Jesus in Ireland in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
The historiola of an ancient Egyptian spell (AEMT 90) describes how Isis becomes a fugitive to protect her unborn/young son Horus from Seth, the murderer of her brother/husband Osiris. As her travel-group seeks refuge in the Nile Delta, a noblewoman’s inhospitality to the unexpected visitors results in her young son being stung by Isis’s sco…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited Un manuscrit de J.-F. Champollion sur une stèle de Pavie : quelques notes in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Cette contribution présente un manuscrit de Jean-François Champollion conservé dans les Archives historique et civiques de Pavie et relatif à une stèle d’époque saïte des Musée civiques de Pavie. ——– This article presents a handwritten document of Jean-François Champollion, kept in the Civic Historical Archives of Pavia, reporting the tran…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited 4.2. Papiro funerario contenente estratti dalla XII ora dell’Amduat in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Catalogue entry presenting an Amduat papyrus (catalogue no. E16) kept in the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia (Italy), included in the exhibition “Sotto il cielo di Nut. Egitto divino”, Civico Museo Archeologico, Milano, 11th March-20th December 2020 (organized by S. Ceruti and A. Provenzali).
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Marco De Pietri deposited Evidence for medical relations between Egypt and Ḫatti: a brief overview in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Some Egyptian and Hittite documents refer to the exchange of medical knowledge; on one hand, Egypt sent physicians and medical ingredients to the Hittite land; on the other, the Hittites provided Egypt with raw materials used to prepare remedies for healing purposes. The Egypto-Hittite correspondence frequently mentions the dispatch of medicines…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited I frammenti di mummy cover dell’Egyptian corner dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
The paper presents for the first time to the public some wooden fragments of an ancient Egyptian ‘mummy cover’, kept in the ‘Egyptian Corner’ of the University of Pavia Archaeology Museum (Italy). The fragments, belonging to an original ancient Egyptian artefact which dates back to the end of the New Kingdom, are here published after a restora…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Which Seth? Untangling some close homonyms from ancient Egypt and the Near East in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
This paper aims to disambiguate the proper name “Seth” and its cognates or homonyms – perfect or imperfect – in texts from ancient Egypt, the Near East and the Mediterranean. It considers: (1) the Suteans, West Semitic Amorite/Aramean nomads who feature negatively in Mesopotamian records; (2) S(h)eth in the Hebrew bible, in which a dispara…[Read more]
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Andrea Sinclair deposited Iconographic Entanglement in New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Rhetoric: Was the ‘International Style’ a Nuanced Form of Visual Rhetoric for an Old Office? in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
The Late Bronze Age is renowned for heightened interregional interaction in the entire Near East and Eastern Mediterranean as wealthy states like Egypt and Hatti jostled with each other in the pursuit of valuable commodities, technologies and materials. This increased political and economic interaction is credited in relatively recent scholarship…[Read more]
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Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt: The Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Plant Identifications in Alternative Egyptology in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 12 months ago
Text to a presentation on the misrepresentation of ancient Egyptian psychoactive consumption in academic publications and public media that was given by me at the Alternative Egyptology Symposium, hosted by the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 14-04-2021. There is an academic paper in preparation.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited “Bad Shepherds” of the Eastern Delta in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
During the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE, the Nile’s Eastern Delta was supposedly the locale of truculent “shepherds” who were inimical to Egypt. These problematic herdsmen seem largely to have been refractions of foreign powers generated by independent etymological confusions, behind which lie the Hyksos and the Assyrians; however, the caric…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Similarities between North Mesopotamian (Late Halaf), Egyptian (Naqada) and Nubian (A-Group) female figurines of the 6-4th millennia BCE in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
Late Halaf female figurines of clay/pottery from northeastern Syria (Type LH.1A; 6th millennium BCE) have close parallels in predynastic Egyptian figurines (4th millennium BCE) in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. The lack of provenance for the Egyptian statuettes – all of which were purchased – has long inhibited any comparison with the…[Read more]
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Marco De Pietri deposited La “città” prima della città in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
A didactic poster (written for schools) presented on the occasion of the conference “La città com’era, com’è, e come la vorremmo”, organized within the project “Pavia 100 Torri – Osservatorio Permanente sull’Antico”, held at the UNIPV on February 8th, 2013.
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Marco De Pietri deposited Kadesh, beyond the conflict: the Hittites in Egyptian “minor” documents in the group
Egyptology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
Poster presented at the 5th Annual Birmingham Egyptology Symposium: “Conflict in Ancient Culture”, 11th May 2018, University of Birmingham.
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