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Programme of Lectures Thursday, 22 May Association Internationale des Egyptologues International Association of Egyptologists University of the Aegean Internationaler Ägyptologen Verband Department of Mediterranean Studies Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists University of the Aegean Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008 Programme of Lectures Thursday, 22 May 10:00 – 18:00 Registration 18:00 – 18:30 Opening Ceremony 18:30 – 19:30 Opening Lecture at Delphi Amphitheater: Mr. Abd Sabry Aziz (SCA), Recent Discoveries in Egypt 20:00 Welcome reception Friday, 23 May DELPHI AMPHITHEATER NAFSIKA HALL A NAFSIKA HALL B NEFELI HALL A NEFELI HALL B MORNING SESSIONS ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPT – GREECE BELIEF -SYSTEM PHILOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS 9:00 – 9:30 J. ANDERSON B. HAYDEN H.G. TOLMACHEVA M. CAMPAGNO H.I.M. GHALY ET AL . Five years of excavations Demotic marriage The Heron cult in Egypt Some reflections on Geoarcheological at Dangeil, Sudan: A new documents as evidence for during the Old and the kinship terms in the investigations on the West Amun temple of the Late the perception and use of Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts Bank (Thebes Mountain): Kushite period coinage among Egyptians an integrated approach in the Ptolemaic Period 9:30 – 10:00 W. MÜLLER A. GIANAKOULAS G. SCHREIBER J. GEE M. BARTA Syene/Aswan - The city at Egypt in the Homeric Crocodile gods on a late Textual criticism and Remote sensing and the First Cataract and its poems: an egyptological group of hypocephali textual corruption in satellite imaging on the archaeology perspective Coffin Texts 131-142 pyramid fields 10:00 – 10:30 C. VON PILGRIM N. LAZARIDIS A.A.A. GABER M. NUZZOLO C. PRICE Settlement structures of The dynamics of Some snake deities from Sun temples and Pyramid The preliminary report of the Old and Middle comparison: a progress the temple of Edfu Texts: king’s path to the geophysical survey of Kingdom on the east bank report on a comparative eternity through the the area to the east of the in Aswan study of the use of sayings evolution of cult Step Pyramid, 2007 in works of ancient season Egyptian and Greek literature 10:30 – 11:00 R. PREYS B. EGEDI L.E. DIAZ -IGLESIAS H. HAYS T. HERBICH Kom Ombo et Shedbeg: Greek loanwords and two LLANOS Old Kingdom sacerdotal Magnetic surveying of temple et nécropole à grammatical features of The role of Osiris in the texts archaeological sites in the 2 l’époque gréco-romaine pre-coptic Egyptian mythological cycle Nile Delta, Egypt devised around Heracleopolis Magna 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & refreshments DELPHI AMPHITHEATER NAFSIKA HALL A NAFSIKA HALL B NEFELI HALL A NEFELI HALL B MIDDAY SESSIONS ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPT -GREECE BELIEF -SYSTEM PHILOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGY & ART 11:30 – 12:00 S. ALLEN A. BUSCH P. KOUSOULIS R. LANDGRÁFOVÁ & H. F. HÖFLMAYER & A. The pottery from the The problem of an Naming and classifying NAVRATILOVA ZDIARSKY pyramid complex of “international repertoire” the demonic: ancient Texts from an era of Synchronizing Egypt and Senwosret III at Dahshur reconsidered – Royal Egyptian demonology in crisis: database of FIP and the Aegean: a after the Middle Kingdom iconography and private context Early Middle Kingdom radiocarbon-based contexts exemplified on a biographical texts approach unique group of cosmetic boxes 12:00 – 12:30 S. VEREECKEN P. BUTZ Y. KOENIG M. DEPAUW L. EVANS The Old Kingdom tombs Egyptian stylistic Un nouveau papyrus Quantifying language Animal behaviour in at Dayr Al Barsh ā: influence on stoichedon magique : Le papyrus des shifts in Graeco-Roman Egyptian art overview of the pottery and the Hekatompedon Sept Propos de Mehet Egypt on the basis of corpus from Zone 07 Inscription at Athens Ouret (pLouvre 6838- Trismegistos 6841+ 6848) 12:30 – 13:00 R. SCHIESTL & A SEILER K. SAVOPOULOS A. ROCCATI F. NAETHER M.H. EL-WESHAHY Possibilities and The perception and role of The language of the Magic in the internet: The representation of wild Limitations of Fine Dating Egyptian tradition in Qeheq investigation by genre in animals in the Egyptian Egyptian Middle Hellenistic Alexandria Trismegistos environment on ostraca Kingdom Pottery – the (3 rd -1st centuries BC) Middle Kingdom Pottery Handbook 3 14. 30 – 16.00: Plenary lectures at Delphi Amphitheater: 1. C.J. EYRE , Economy and society in Pharaonic Egypt 2. J.P. ALLEN , The historical inscriptions of Khnumhotep at Dahshur 16.00 – 16.30: Coffee & refreshments DELPHI AMPHITHEATER NAFSIKA HALL A NAFSIKA HALL B NEFELI HALL A NEFELI HALL B AFTERNOON SESSIONS ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPT -GREECE BELIEF -SYSTEM CULTURAL HERITAGE PHILOLOGY 16:30 – 17:00 E. BROVARSKI N. AYERS E.A. GUZZON C. DE SIMONE S. RZEPKA The Abu Bakr cemetery Egyptian imitations of Local priestly titles: a big The memorandum of Deir el-Medina Mycenaean pottery picture understanding between community in the light of Egypt and Sudan in the rock graffiti field of cultural heritage 17:00 – 17:30 S. THOMAS A. HASSLER R. BUSSMANN M. HELMY U. VERHOEVEN Excavations in the small Mycenaean pottery in King and temple in the Hidden histories project at Literarische Graffiti in domestic/industrial area at Egypt reconsidered: old Eleventh Dynasty the Petrie museum of Grab N13.1 in Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham contexts and new results Egyptian Archaeology Assiut/Mittelägypten (UCL) 17:30 – 18:00 J. KREJ ČÍ I. HEIN T. SORIA R. HÖLZL T. GILLEN Abusir royal necropolis in Cypriot and Aegean Xm(w) nTr mAat : Law Unknown treasures in Register in the Medinet the light of new features in the New and administration of museum storages: finds Habu historical discoveries Kingdom Egypt: cultural justice in Ancient Egypt from the early inscriptions elements interpreted from archaeological expeditions archaeological fields of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Egypt and Nubia during the years 1910 to 1912 18:00 – 18:30 J. HUDEC M. MINAS -NERPEL C. LORD R. MÜLLER - T. POMMERENING New research in Tell er- Ptolemaic queens in How now sick cow? The WOLLERMANN Milch einer Frau, die Retaba Egyptian temple reliefs: Veterinary Papyrus – then Ägypten in Iran einen Knaben geboren hat intercultural reflections of and now political authority, or religious imperatives? 4 Saturday, 24 May DELPHI AMPHITHEATER NAFSIKA HALL A NAFSIKA HALL B NEFELI HALL A NEFELI HALL B MORNING SESSIONS ARCHAEOLOGY EGYPT -GREECE BELIEF -SYSTEM ARCHAEOLOGY & ART LITERATURE 9:00 – 9:30 C. PÉREZ -DIE F. BOSCH -PUCHE F. FEDER S.A. LAEMMEL R. ENMARCH The necropolis of First The pharaonic titulary of Egyptian mortuary Beyond the royal horse The language of grief: Intermediate Period /early Alexander the Great liturgies: an updated stud: pottery from Stratum reflections on the laments Middle Kingdom at overview Ba, Area Q IV at of Isis and Nephthys in Ehnasya el Medina Qantir/Pi-Ramesse some mortuary liturgies (Herakleopolis Magna). attested in the Coffin Excavations 2004-2007 Texts 9:30 – 10:00 D. SILVERMAN L. OHANIAN J.M. BOEHMER D.A. ASTON J.-R. PÉREZ -ACCINO Saqqara in the Middle Alexander and Egypt: Dramatic rituals of Blue-painted pottery at the Who is the sage talking Kingdom some investigations transformation in old end of the Eighteenth about? Neferti and the kingdom funerals Dynasty Egyptian sense of history 10:00 – 10:30 N. SHIRAI , W. WENDRICH , S.L. LIPPERT A. PRIES C.M. GUIDOTTI M. ORRIOLS -LLONCH R. CAPPERS . Agriculture in in Graeco- Die Variation der Essai de classification de Semen ingestion and oral An archaeological survey Roman Egypt – a research Tradition. Modalitäten der la céramique de sex in ancient Egyptian in the northeastern part of database Ritualadaption im Alten Antinoopolis texts the Fayum Ägypten I. Standardrituale im Wandel – Tradierungsmuster von den Pyramidentexten bis zur Römerzeit 10:30 – 11:00 R. SCHIESTL S. ALLAM L. MARTZOLFF C. RAEDLER Å. ENGSHEDEN Locating the cemetery of A field for (read by C. KOCH ) Potsherd scrapers and Les pièces du puzzle the residential elite of the interdisciplinary research Die Variation der their function at the toponymique dans le nord Thirteenth Dynasty at Tradition. Modalitäten der workshops of the du Delta Dahshur Ritualadaption im Alten residence at Piramesse Ägypten II. L’adaptation d’un rituel sur les murs d’un temple à la Période Tardive : l’exemple du rituel divin journalier 5 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & refreshments DELPHI AMPHITHEATER NAFSIKA HALL A NAFSIKA HALL B NEFELI HALL A NEFELI HALL B MIDDAY SESSIONS HISTORY SOCIETY & BELIEF -SYSTEM ART BURIAL CUSTOMS ARCHAEOLOGY 11:30 – 12:00 G. DREYER G. CRISCENZO LAYCOCK K. GRIFFIN T. HARDWICK M. RAVEN Dating by events – The The Nome: naturally Links between doorways The king as a falcon: a The tomb of Akhenaten's use of year-names during occurring local unit, or and the rekhyt in ancient “lost” statue of Thutmose royal butler Ptahemwia at the Early Dynastic Period artificial device of the Egypt III rediscovered Saqqara and the Old Kingdom state? 12:00 – 12:30 M. FAROUK K. COONEY C.L. WADE D. LABOURY P. VERLINDEN Timeline of officials of In life as death: funerary Sarcophagus circle: the Colossi and perspective. Child burials in the the Old Kingdom deposits as remnants of goddesses in the tomb On the statues of Dakhla Oasis social and political change Amenhotep IV at the in late New Kingdom Gem-pa-Aton of Karnak Thebes 12:30 – 13:00 J.J. SHIRLEY R. VAN WALSEM R. LUCARELLI A. MEZA M. BABA & Politics of placement: the Demonstration of the Ancient Egyptian demons. An Egyptian-Phoenician S. YOSHIMURA Theban necropolis in the Leiden MastaBase cd- The evidence of the statuette in Seville Recent discoveries of Eighteenth Dynasty rom. A tool for magical and funerary intact tombs at Dahshur quantitative and papyri of the New North: burial customs of qualitative study of Old Kingdom and of the Third the Middle and New Kingdom elite tombs from Intermediate Period Kingdoms the Memphite area 14:30 – 16:00: Plenary lectures at Delphi Amphitheater : 1.
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