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CATALOGUE OF DIGITAL LIBRARY - EGYPTOLOGY - CATALOGO DE BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL - EGIPTOLOGIA - ( UPDATED DECEMBER 2016 )
Juan José Castillos
(Books and papers have been entered in alphabetical order as they were incorporated into the Library, therefore it is a primarily chronological and then alphabetical list)
Introduction bibliographique à l'Égyptologie
Benoit Claus
OLD KINGDOM ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 7 Proceedings of the international conference, Università Degli Studi Di Milano 3–7 July 2017 (Edal 6)
False Doors from Pepy I’s Necropolis
2019 •
Rémi Legros
For more than fifty years the French archaeological mission at Saqqara (now French-Swiss Mission), discovered in the Necropolis of Pepy I very numerous testimonies of private activity. They complete the image of this site, revealed by its prestigious royal monuments. This documentation, which today represents several thousand pieces, consists in particular of offering tables, fragments of mastabas and False Doors. False Doors are presented here in order to give an overview of this corpus and provide the first estimate of its interest and value, expecting a forthcoming publication, more complete and exhaustive.
Death is only the beginning : Egyptian funerary customs at the Macquarie Museum of Ancient Cultures
2017 •
Effy Alexakis
Founded in 1974 as the Ancient History Teaching Collection (AHTC), the Museum of Ancient Cultures (MAC) is the archaeological museum of Macquarie University. The MAC main collection comprises c. 4700 genuine artefacts from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, Rome, the Near East and the Indus Valley. The Egyptian collection is widely regarded as one of the most important in Australia. This is the first catalogue of the collection detailing 72 Ancient Egyptian artefacts associated with funerary customs, from the Predynastic to the Coptic period. Divided into two parts, the catalogue aims to explore Ancient Egyptian funerary culture through an illustration of the MAC collection. Part One provides a series of articles on aspects of Ancient Egyptian funerary beliefs and practices. Part Two comprises the catalogue of artefacts, divided into four sections: pottery, funerary equipment, funerary texts, and religion and magic. In addition to high resolution photographs, each object receives detail...
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The Two Kites and the Osirian Revolution
2019 •
Racheli Shalomi-Hen
In this paper I should like to offer a new reading of OK private scenes of funeral processions, as well as a new understanding of the introduction of Isis and Nephthys into Ancient Egyptian religious thought. It appears that scenes of funeral processions in private tombs emerged simultaneously with Osiris’ first appearances in private burials. Moreover, it seems that detailed descriptions of the private funerals are an expression of covert identification of the non-royal dead with Osiris. ‘The Two Kites’ were part of the official personnel in private funerals. Through an analysis of funeral scenes on the one hand, and the appearance of Isis and Nephthys as ‘The Two Kites’ in PT on the other hand, I shall delineate the ways in which the religion, that evolved around the figure of Osiris, appropriated old features of non-royal religious practices, in order to secure the implementation of its new ideas. The identification of Isis and Nephthys with ‘The Two Kites’ reflects a process that took place at the end of the 5th Dynasty and through the 6th Dynasty. Their role of ‘The Two Kites’ or ‘The Kite’ and ‘The Screecher’ in the PT, was therefore closely related to the ceremonial funerary role of mourning women, which was embedded in OK non-royal funerary traditions, and echoed in OK funerary art.
Kuraszkiewicz K., Kopp E., Takács D. (eds.). ‘The Perfection that Endures…’. Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Warsaw: University of Warsaw.
A New Old Kingdom Painting from the Eastern Necropolis at Giza
2018 •
Maksim Lebedev
The paper discusses a recently discovered painting from the rock cut tomb of Perseneb at Giza (GE 20-22). Described by Lepsius (LG 78) and Mariette, the tomb has been sporadically referred to in Egyptological publications mainly because of an unusual number of rock cut statues prepared for the owner. A routine architectural and epigraphic survey of the tomb brought to light a new important feature of its decoration – fragments of a polychrome painting over a thin layer of white plaster covered with a thick layer of the 19th century soot. The remaining colors made it possible to reconstruct the original composition of the painting characterized by a rare combination of standard scenes (a marsh scene, agricultural scenes, a naval scene, figures of the owner and his wife). A careful study of the remaining iconographic features made it possible to date the painting to the second half of the Fifth Dynasty. The tomb of Perseneb presents a rare example of a painted rock cut chapel for almost all other paintings on plaster known from Giza chapels, except for those in the tomb of Mersyankh III, come from contemporary mastabas.
'the Perfection that Endures...' Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology
Décrets de la nécropole royale de Pépy Ier
2018 •
Rémi Legros
Pepy I’ necropolis delivered many fragments of decrees, which are the subject of this article. The corpus discovered by the MafS includes fragments of widely varying size and interest. If some of them contain only a few signs, others are almost complete. As a whole, they reflect the significance of such documents in the organization of funerary cults. Issued by Pepy II for the queens, they refer to the moving of statues from one complex to another. Very close to other documents already known, these new decrees also specify some provisions regarding personnel and institutions in charge of worship. Particular attention is paid to ȝḥt-fields and jzn-territory.
The perfection that endures…’ Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. K. O. Kuraskiewicz, E. Kopp and D. Takács. Warsaw, University of Warsaw: 61-76.
Created for Eternity. Statues and serdabs in the late Fifth Dynasty tombs at Abusir South
2018 •
Miroslav Barta, Hana Vymazalová
The recent exploration by the Czech mission in Abusir South brought to light a family cemetery of high officials and solar priests from the late Fifth Dynasty. This cemetery included mastabas and rock-cut tombs with courtyards, and the majority of these tombs contained serdabs for the owners’ statues. More than twenty unique statues were discovered on this site, some of them almost complete, while others were in fragments. This articles aims to explore the discovered serdabs and statues in the context of the Fifth Dynasty evidence and place it within the context of the social and religious changes of the late Fifth Dynasty, especially during the time of King Nyuserra.
Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Edyta Kopp und Dániel Takács (eds.), ‘The Perfection that endures…’ Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw)
Eyes, False Doors and Pyramid Text 534 § 1266–1267
2019 •
Christoffer Theis
This article offers an equation between eyes on false doors and Pyramid Text 534. It is argued, that eyes on false doors are not the eyes of the deceased, but evil eyes, which shall prevent a god or a human being from going through the door. The archaeological remains of false doors with eyes are collected and linked with the evil eyes, which are mentioned in Pyramid Text 534 § 1266c on a double door. These eyes can be interpreted as magical protection for the tomb of a king or the last resting-place of a private individual.
Gundacker, R. 2018 The Names of the Kings of the Fifth Dynasty According to Manetho in K. Kuraszkiewicz et alii (edd.), 'The Perfection that Endures', Warsaw, 133-174
Roman Gundacker
The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty may serve as a prototypical example for the re-evaluation of Manetho’s king-list: Userkaf, Sahure, Neferirkare, Shepseskare, Reneferef, Nirewoser, Djedkare-Isesi and Unas are all recorded in the king-list of Manetho as transmitted by Sextus Julius Africanus according to the Ecloga chronographiae of George Syncellus. Although the names as preserved have obviously suffered on a long way of copying manuscripts over and over again, a closer look at the Greek transcriptions reveals the high quality and the still unbroken relevance of Manetho’s Aegyptiaca for modern Egyptological scholarship, when dealing with chronology, onomastics and linguistics. As will be shown, there is a line, identifiable with variable degrees of difficultly but finally clearly discernible, which leads all the way down from the Old Kingdom to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca.
