Egyptology

The Lecherous Pseudo-Anubis of Josephus and the ‘Tomb of 1897’ at Akhmim

by David Klotz

Published in A. Gasse, F. Servajean, C. Thiers (eds), CENiM 5 : Et in Ægypto et ad Ægyptum, Recueil d’études dédiées à Jean-Claude Grenier, CENIM (Montpellier, 2012), vol. 2, pp. 383-396.

New documents on the life and death of Domenico Enegildo Frediani (1783-1823), traveller and poet in Egypt and the Sudan

by Daniele Salvoldi

«Göttinger Miszellen» 233 (2012), pp. 51-67.

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Describe and analyse the focus on the solar cult in the Eighteenth Dynasty and how this led to the religious changes under Akhenaten.

by Paul Roberts

Building a Mediterranean Power : the Saitic Period

by Damien Agut-Labordère

in J. C. Moreno Garcia, Ancient Egyptian Administration (Series "Handbuch der Orientalistik"), Brill, Leiden-Boston (in press)

Orriols-Llonch, M., Sex and Cosmogony. The Onanism of the Solar Demiurg, Göttinger Miszellen 233, Göttingen, 2012, pp. 31-42

by Marc Orriols-Llonch

A sun-shade temple of princess Ankhesenpaaten in Memphis?

by Stephane Pasquali

Published in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97, London, 2011, p. 216-222.

Publication of the Amarna period block MRAH inv. 4491, part of a sloping balustrade perhaps from a sun-shade temple of... more Publication of the Amarna period block MRAH inv. 4491, part of a sloping balustrade perhaps from a sun-shade temple of Princess Ankhesenpaaten in Memphis. The inscription is noteworthy for containing a unique instance of the re-carving of the name of Aten from form IIa to either IIb or III. There follows an excursus on the Memphite ‘Horizon of Aten’.

Un nouveau relief du grand intendant de Memphis, Ipy, et le temple de Ptah du terrain-bʿḥ

by Stephane Pasquali

Published with Beatrix Gessler-Löhr in Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 111, Le Caire, 2011, p. 281-299.

Abstract :
Publication of a decorated block from Ipy’s tomb (temp. Tutankhamun-Horemhab). The tomb is located in... more Abstract :
Publication of a decorated block from Ipy’s tomb (temp. Tutankhamun-Horemhab). The tomb is located in Saqqara; however, its whereabouts is currently unknown. This study includes translation and analysis of the inscriptions; discussion of the Ptah Temple of the bʿḥ-land; consideration of the location of Ipy’s two tombs; stylistic analysis and dating of the block and Ipy’s tomb stelae from Saqqara.


Publication d’un fragment de relief provenant de la tombe d’Ipy (époque Toutânkhamon-Horemheb)qui reste à redécouvrir à Saqqâra. L’étude se compose comme suit : traduction et analyse des inscriptions ; discussion à propos du temple de Ptah du terrain-bʿḥ et de la question des deux tombes d’Ipy ; étude stylistique et datation du relief ainsi que des stèles provenant de sa tombe de Saqqâra.

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Keywords: Amarna – Amenhotep III (time of ) – Amenhotep Huy (father of Ipy) – Ay (time of ) – carvingtechniques – dating criteria – Fan-bearer to the Right of the King – flabellum – Gold of Honour – “handkerchief ” – High Steward of Memphis – Horemhab (Saqqara tomb of ) – Ipy (location of tombs) – Maya (Overseer of the Treasury) – Memphis – Nahuher (brother of Maya) – offering bearers – Post-AmarnaPeriod – Ptah (outside of Inebu, near Memphis) – Memphite royal mortuary temples – Saqqara – TT 136 – Tutankhamun (time of, stylistic features) – wigs and garments.

La huitième heure du Book of Hours. Une invocation aux divinités et aux défunts de la nécropole de Memphis

by Stephane Pasquali

Published in A. Gasse, Fr. Servajean, Chr. Thiers (éd.), Et in Ægypto et ad Ægyptum. Recueil d’études dédiées à Jean-Claude Grenier, III, CENiM 5, Montpellier, 2012, p. 551-562.

Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

by Damien Agut-Labordère

dans B. Jacobs et R. Rollinger (eds), A Companion to the Achaemenid Empire, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden. Parution prévue 9/08/2013.

Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

Plan détaillé. - 1. Administrative Hierarchy. 1.1. The Satrap. 1.2. High... more Administration of Achaemenid Egypt

Plan détaillé. - 1. Administrative Hierarchy. 1.1. The Satrap. 1.2. High Administration. 1.3. Local Administration. 2. Specialized Administrations. 2.1. Army, Police, Justice. 2.2. Fiscal Administration, Royal and Gods estate. 2.3. Royal works and crafts. 3. Administration in Multicultural-Context. 3.1. Iranians, Egyptians and others. 3.2. Writing Aramaic and Demotic. 3.3. Satrap and ethnic clashes.

The Sesostris’ Stelae”: A Topos of the Classical Historiography and the Ancient Egyptian Actualities

by Ivan Ladynin

The article deals with the famous topos of the Classical historiography about the stelae posited by the legendary... more The article deals with the famous topos of the Classical historiography about the stelae posited by the legendary Egyptian king-conqueror Sesostris wherever he waged war, with the inscribed account of the war if the people subdued in it was valiant and with female genitalia added to the account if the foe showed cowardice. The earliest and at the same time the lengthiest evidence of the fable is Herodotus’ narration (II. 102). The prevailing opinion that the prototype for Sesostris was Senwosret III is undoubtedly true; more reasons can be found to connect Herodotus’ account with the background of his reign is found in his Nubian inscription of Year 16 (the Semna Stela BM 1157, ll. 9-12 = the Uronarti Stela Khartoum 3, ll. 6-10), where any unhelpful general retreating from Nubian foes is described as Hm (Wb. III. 80.7; actually, an obscenity written with the hieroglyphic sign GG(SL) N41 that symbolized exactly the female genitalia and likely to be translated as “effeminate”, “unvirile”; note the root Hm “to retreat” cf. Wb. III. 79 similar in phonetic and writing and also present in the same passage of the inscription). There are reasons to believe that the Nubian inscriptions of Senwosret III praising his military effort were lavishly propagated in his reign, which contributed to shaping his image of the great conqueror (not quite up to reality, as his effort was certainly greater than the extent of his conquests). Eventually, the Late Egyptian historiography contaminated the reminiscences of all the stages of Egyptian expansion in the 2nd Millennium B.C. within the story of Senwosret III/Sesostris and probably attached to it the recollections about the stelae posited at the Euphrates’ frontier by Thutmosis I and III. Hence the inclusion in the story of Sesostris of his vast conquests in Asia, added with his advent to Europe (Thrace and Scythia), probably, as it has been suggested by the students of the topos, under the influence of the Persian time, in order to position Sesostris as a much more successful conqueror that the Achaemenids.


The false name of the paper in its English abstract in the .pdf-version is due to the unhelpful editing in the Nauka ('Science') Publishing House.

Wrw-en-Keftw : ipotesi ed argomenti per la presenza minoica nell'Egitto della XVIII Din. Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia, 2012.

by Tiziano Fantuzzi

Egypt Exploration Society Invades ... London Underground?

by Amara Thornton

Thornton, A. 2012. Egypt Exploration Society Invades ... London Underground? The EES Newsletter, 4, pp.4-5.

“Barques sur le Nil...”. La légende de Nectanébo comme récit de dé-légitimation

by Philippe Matthey

A paraître dans : C. Bonnet, A. Declercq, I. Slobodzianek (sous la direction de), Les représentations des dieux des autres, Supplemento a Mythos 2 (nuova serie).

Résumé:

On peut lire dans le Roman d’Alexandre et dans le Songe de Nectanébo deux scènes où le pharaon... more Résumé:

On peut lire dans le Roman d’Alexandre et dans le Songe de Nectanébo deux scènes où le pharaon Nectanébo obtient des visions de dieux juchés sur des bateaux : dans les deux cas, ces visions sont annonciatrices de la fin de son règne. Cet article tente de démontrer que ce genre d’image trouve probablement son origine dans une adaptation littéraire des processions festives égyptiennes, et dans une inversion de leur mise en scène au sein des Königsnovelle du Nouvel Empire, où les dieux apparaissent généralement pour légitimer la cause d’un pharaon.

Abstract:

Two scenes in the Alexander Romance and Nectanebo’s Dream show pharaoh Nectanebo experiencing visions of gods appearing on boats: the visions foreshadow in both cases the end of Nectanebo’s reign. This article attempts to demonstrate that this kind of image is a literary adaptation of ancient Egyptian
ritual processions, and a twist on the classic theme of the Pharaoh’s legitimation by the gods as it was invented in the New Kingdom Königsnovelle.

Questioning the OK capital of Memphis

by Serena Love

The capital city of Memphis was ancient Egypt’s oldest and largest city. However, the city’s origin is shrouded in... more The capital city of Memphis was ancient Egypt’s oldest and largest city. However, the city’s origin is shrouded in mythical origin. This study challenges five different references to Memphis, from both classical and historical accounts and concludes that Memphis’ boundary should be redefined. These accounts are reviewed to illustrate confusion amongst early travellers and historians as to the precise location of Memphis and to highlight the association between the capital and the pyramids. For the Old Kingdom, the urban limits of Memphis should not be restricted to the modern mound of Mit Rahina, but rather the boundaries should be expanded to parallel the Old Kingdom pyramids. Recent archaeological investigations, employing sub-surface sampling techniques, have revealed contemporary Old Kingdom occupational debris scattered throughout the entire Memphite region. The inclusion of archaeological material, in combination with the historical records, will create a different interpretation for Egypt’s ancient capital city.

Une volonté de s' approprier symboliquement les qualités de l'autruche serait à l'origine de certains jeux graphiques dans l'art rupestre du Sahara oriental. - Les Cahiers de l'AARS, 13, 2009: 81-84.

by Julien d'Huy

http://aars.fr/

L’homme qui voyait l’autruche rapide, vigilante, belliqueuse, a sans doute envié ces qualités, au point de vouloir se... more L’homme qui voyait l’autruche rapide, vigilante, belliqueuse, a sans doute envié ces qualités, au point de vouloir se les approprier. C’est ce qui explique toute une série de jeux graphiques dans l’art rupestre du Sahara oriental, où l’on peut par ailleurs voir l’une des sources de la symbolique égyptienne de l’oiseau.

The man who had seen a fast, watchful, warlike ostrich, doubtless envied these qualities, to the point of wanting to appropriate them. That explains a whole series of graphic games in the rock art of Eastern Sahara, where we can besides see one of the sources of the Egyptian symbolism of this bird.

Du Sahara au Nil: la faible représentation d'animaux dangereux dans l'art rupestre du désert Libyque pourrait être liée à la crainte de leur animation. - Les Cahiers de l'AARS, 13, 2009: 85-98.

by Julien d'Huy

Co-authored with Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
http://aars.fr/

Fuyant l’aridification de leur territoire pour rejoindre les régions plus clémentes de la vallée du Nil, peut-être en... more Fuyant l’aridification de leur territoire pour rejoindre les régions plus clémentes de la vallée du Nil, peut-être en empruntant ce qui allait devenir la piste d’Abū Ballās, les habitants du Djebel el-’Uweynāt et du Gilf Kebīr auraient emporté avec eux leur crainte de représenter des animaux dangereux.

Fleeing the increasing aridity of their territory in order to reach the more favourable regions of the Nile valley, perhaps following what was to become the Abu Ballas track, the inhabitants of the Djebel el-‘Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir may have taken with them their fear of representing dangerous animals.

From the Sahara to the Nile - The low representation of dangerous animals in the rock art of the Libyan desert could be linked to the fear of their animation. - Translated by Geoffrey Kolbe. - Les Cahiers de l'AARS, 13, 2009: 85-98.

by Julien d'Huy

Traduction de l'article "Du Sahara au Nil - La faible représentation d'animaux dangereux dans l'art rupestre du désert Libyque pourrait être lié à la crainte de leur représentation" - Cahiers de l'AARS 13: 85-98.

English translation of the paper "Du Sahara au Nil - La faible représentation d'animaux dangereux dans l'art rupestre du désert Libyque pourrait être lié à la crainte de leur représentation" - Cahiers de l'AARS 13: 85-98.

Fleeing the increasing aridity of their territory in order to reach the more favourable regions of the Nile valley,... more Fleeing the increasing aridity of their territory in order to reach the more favourable regions of the Nile valley, perhaps following what was to become the Abu Ballas track, the inhabitants of the Djebel el-‘Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir may have taken with them their fear of representing dangerous animals.

New evidence for a closeness between the Abu Râ’s shelter (Eastern Sahara) and Egyptian beliefs. - Sahara, 20, 2009: 125-126.

by Julien d'Huy

Sahara, 20, 2009: 125-126.
www.saharajournal.com/

"Une mystérieuse route sud-orientale sous le règne de Ramsès III"

by Claire Somaglino

Co-authored with P. Tallet, published in BIFAO 111, 2011, p. 361-369

« Rire, fécondité et dévoilement rituel du sexe féminin d’Hathor à Baubô, un parcours revisité », dans : Et in Aegypto et ad Aegyptum, Recueil d’études dédiées à Jean-Claude Grenier (Annie Gasse, Frédéric Servajean et Christophe Thiers (éds.), CENiM 5, vol. 4, Montpellier, 2012, p. 755-772.

by Youri Volokhine