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On the Orientation of the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
On the orientation of the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor Amelia Carolina Sparavigna To cite this version: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna. On the orientation of the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor. Philica, Philica, 2018. hal-01700520 HAL Id: hal-01700520 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01700520 Submitted on 4 Feb 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. On the orientation of the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor Amelia Carolina Sparavigna (Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino) Abstract The Avenue of Sphinxes is a 2.8 kilometres long Avenue linking Luxor and Karnak temples. This avenue was the processional road of the Opet Festival from the Karnak temple to the Luxor temple and the Nile. For this Avenue, some astronomical orientations had been proposed. After the examination of them, we consider also an orientation according to a geometrical planning of the site, where the Avenue is the diagonal of a square, a sort of best-fit straight line in a landscape constrained by the presence of temples, precincts and other processional avenues. The direction of the rising of Vega was probably used as reference direction for the surveying. -
A Journey Into Immortality,” Which Opened on July 17 and Runs Until February 2, 2020
E X H I B I T I O N MUAM JOUMRNEY IES INTO IMMORTALITY by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli Photos courtesy the exhibition, unless ottherwise noted hanks to Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801) and its extensive scientific stud y of ancient Egyptian culture, during the first half of the Nineteenth Century Egyptomania spread across Europe. Art collectors, antique deal - Ters and merchants in Egypt, as well as — above all — European consuls in Egypt collected and ship- ped home artifacts and mummies, those consuls us- ually selling these to their own or other governments. This is how many of the great European private and public Egyptian collections started in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and Italy . The core collection of Florence’s Egyptian Museum — founded in 1885 and today housed in the city’s Museum of Archaeology (and considered the second-best in Italy, after Turin) — came primar- ily from four sources, its initial nucleus preceding even Egyptomania and dating to the 1700s, original- ly be longing to Florence’s greatest art-patronage family from the Renaissance onwards, the Medicis. The second source was Giuseppe Nizzoli, an Austrian diplomat of Italian origin in the service of the Austrian consul in Egypt. In 1824 he sold his collection in three parts: to the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna; to Pelagio Palagi, a collector in Bologna, whose portion became the core Egyptian collection of his hometown; and to Leopold II, arch- duke of Tuscany. Florence’s third source was the joint Franco- Tuscan Expedition from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and back again, lasting from July 31, 1828, to No - vember 27, 1829, co-directed by Jean-Fran çois Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini. -
Nr. 31/1, 2011
31/1 31. 31. J UNI 2 0 1 1 ÅRGANG PAPYRUS Æ GYPTOLOGISK T IDSSKRIFT Indhold PAPYRUS 31. årgang nr. 1 2011 ENGLISH ABSTRACTS The triads of Mycerinos Johnny Barth Everyone interested in ancient Egypt is familiar with at least one of the triads of Mycerinos. Superb works of art, some in mint condition – but questions about them remain to be asked, in particular as to their original number and significance. The author assesses the evidence. Late 18th dynasty harems Lise Manniche The Amarna correspondence reveals exciting aspects of the rhetoric among sovereigns in the Near East in the late 18th dynasty, and it also provides a unique insight into human resources in the institution of an Egyptian harem. Pictorial and other evidence, however disjointed, adds to our understanding of its significance which was not solely aimed at the sexual gratification of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt. Mummy bandages in Danish Collections Thomas Christiansen A much neglected source of copies of chapters of the Book of the Dead is to be found on mummy bandages from the very end of the pharaonic period to the first Haremsbeboer: kvinde ved navn Tia, “amme” for prinsesse Ankhesenpaaten. century AD. For technical and other reasons their artistic qualities do not compete with those on papyrus, Blok fra Aten-templet i Amarna, nu i Metropolitan Museum of Art, New but they are nevertheless of interest as a niche medium York (foto LM). for conveying a message important to Egyptians at the time. The author presents examples from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, the National Museum and the Carlsberg Papyrus Collection in Copenhagen. -
Jean Francois Champollion the Father of Egyptology by John Warren Anyone Who Has Studied Ancient Egypt Will Be Familiar with Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Champollion The Father of Egyptology by John Warren Anyone who has studied ancient Egypt will be familiar with Jean Francois Champollion. He was, after all, credited with deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone and thus giving scholars the key to understanding hieroglyphics. For this effort along, he is frequently referred to as the Father of Egyptology, for he provided the foundation that scholars would need in order to truly understand the ancient Egyptians. Even though he suffered a stroke, dying at the age of forty-one, he himself added to our knowledge of this grand, ancient civilization by translating any number of Egyptian texts prior to his death. Champollion was born on December 23rd, 1790 in the town of Figeac, France to Jacques Champollion and Jeanne Francoise. He was their youngest son, and was educated originally by his elder brother, Jacques Joseph (1778-1867). While still at home, he attempted to teach himself a number of languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Chaldean and Chinese. In 1801, at the age of ten, he was sent off to study at the Lyceum in Grenoble. There, at the young age of sixteen, he red a paper before the Grenoble Academy proposing that the language of the Coptic Christians in contemporary Egypt was actually the same language spoken PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com language to be at least an evolutionary form of the language spoken in the pharaonic period, spiked with the tongues of its foreign invaders such as the Greeks. His studies continued at the College de France between 1807 and 1809, where he specialized in Oriental languages. -
Dipartimento Amministrativo Per Le Attivita' Istituzionali
Call for the selection of no. 1 temporary research associate position: The University of Pisa announces the public selection, assessed by qualifications and interview, for the assignment of n. 1 grant for research activities (hereinafter referred as “research grants”) as provided in the Annex A, with a specific tab for each project listing the reference structure, the research object, the scientific field, a summary of the background and skills of the fellow, information relating to the interview. Research grants will be funded on the POR FSE TOSCANA 2014-2020 resources in the frame of the Regione Toscana project Giovanisì (www.giovanisi.it ), aiming to enhance young people’s autonomy. Successful candidates will have to carry out their research activities mainly (at least 50% of the research activity period) with one of the operators of the regional cultural and creative network that collaborates on the project and is a mandatory component of the partnership. Contract duration: 24 months Gross annual salary: € 28.000,00 Admission requirements: - Hold a master degree at the time of application submission; - Be under the age of 36 by the application submission; Successful candidates currently holding other fellowships or research grants, are asked to renounce before the acceptance of the research grants referred in this notice, without prejudice to the provisions stated in the Law 30/12/2010 n. 240, art. 22, subparagraph III (exception laid down for the scholarships awarded by national or foreign institutions and aiming to complement the research activities with a stay abroad). The selection does not enable nationality limitations and follows the cross-cutting priorities of gender equality and equal opportunities. -
EGYPT in PISA by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli
EGYPT IN PISA by Lucy Gordan-Rastelli Torso segment of a y article “Mummies: A Journey Into Immortality” in the winter 2019-20 life-sized statue of Amenhotep III, found issue of the Journal (Vol. 30, No. 4,) concluded with: “The exhibition at Soleb in Nubia & ends with an excellent video of Guidotti [director of the Egyptian collec - today in the Egyptian collection of the Uni - tion in Florence] and the University of Pisa Egyptologist Dr. Flora Sil - versity of Pisa. vano discussing mummification techniques and how those evolved over M time.” My list of Italian museums with Egyptian collections does not in- 41 Kmt Left, Native of Pisa & father of Italian Egyptology Ippolito Rosellini (1800-1843) in a de - tail of a large painting by Guiseppe Angelelli depicting members of the Franco-Tuscan Ex - pedition to Egypt, 1828-1829. Above, Engraved frontispiece of Rosellini’s I Monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia , published in five volumes (1832-1844). clude Pisa, so I contacted Associate Prof. second-most important plaza, mag nificent an “adopted” one. Birga’s actual name Flora Silvano at Pisa’s University, to Piazza dei Cavalieri, or Knights’ Square. was Sofia Massimina Francesca Livia. find out more. A short walk away is Piazza dei Miraco- Her mother was Laura Rosellini, the From doing the research for my li, or Square of Miracles, where the city’s second to the last of Gaetano Rosellini’s article “Egypt on the Arno” (15:2, Sum - cathedral and baptistery and famous six children. Gaetano was the brother of mer 2004), and from Dennis Forbes’s Leaning Tower are located. -
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM NEWSLETTER Free Copy
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM NEWSLETTER FREE COPY January – April 2010 Issue 7 IN THIS ISSUE: Egypt’s New Kingdom Treasures Visiting Hours: 9 am - 6.30 pm Entrance Fees: General Working Hours: 9 am - 3.30 pm Foreign Adults: 60 LE Editorial Committee: Foreign Students (with valid ISIC ID): 30 LE Dr Zahi Hawass Egyptian and Arab Adults: 4.00 LE Dr Wafaa al-Saddik Egyptian and Arab Students: 1.00 LE Maather Aboueich, Editor Mummy Rooms (one ticket for both rooms): Mennat-Allah El Dorry, Editor-in-Chief Phone: +2-02-25782452 Patsy Gasperetti, Language Editor Fax: 2-02-25796974 Foreign Adults: 100 LE Rebecca Hodgins, Editorial Assistant Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Foreign Students (with valid ISIC ID): 60 LE The Newsletter appears three times a year. Graphic Design: Magdy Ezzeldin Egyptian and Arab Adults: 10 LE For queries and PDF subscriptions, Egyptian and Arab Students: 5 LE please e-mail Printing supervision: Amal Safwat [email protected] Printed in Egypt by All information in the Newsletter is correct www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg is not valid. The Supreme Council of Antiquities at the time of publication. A new website is under construction. 2 EGYPTIAN MUS A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR E U M gyptian antiquities have long Egypt” exhibition which opens at The Franklin Institute Ne enchanted the international in Philadelphia on June 5th, 2010, and travels to four WSL E public. Museums around the world North American cities until January 2011. E TT strive to host travelling exhibitions The popularity of Egyptian antiquities stems from E R on Egyptian antiquities, which the skill that ancient Egyptian artisans employed Issue 7 / January – April 2010 – Issue 7 / January are always a success. -
House of Eternity: Tomb of Nefertari
20 HOUSE OF ETERNITY beyond the broad and the thermal stress of hot days and swath of cultivation cold nights. Such forces of nature broke down the rock still more into scree that between the river now rings the bases of the cliffs. In this and the Libyan plateau. desolate region lie the world-famous ceme The plateau is a vast desert region teries of western Thebes: the Valley of that extends westward from the Nile more the Kings, the Tombs of the Nobles, and than a thousand miles. Made of fossil-rich the Valiey of the Queens. limestone laid down by incursions of Placing their cemeteries to the west Previous page: ancient seas, it stretches from magnificent was instinctive for the ancient Egyptians, A view across the cliffs formed over millennia by the mean who localized the netherworld in the land river Nile toward derings of the river. Innumerable bays and of the setting sun. This association took western Thebes. canyons have been etched by wind, sand, on particular meaning in Thebes because Kadesh The main wadi in the • Valley of the Queens ME DITER R ANEAN SEA showing some of the tombs of queens and royal children. Nefertari's tomb is indicated. Photo: A. Siliotti. LOW E R E GYPT u P PER E GYPT VALLEY OF THE QUEENS ( Aswan High Dam THE VALLEY OF THE QUEENS Thebes - in the work a benchmark ever since. men's village at Deir el Schiaparelli and his Medineh and in the assistant Francesco Valley of the Queens. Ballerini assigned num of the great western peak of Qurna, by far 1906, ERNESTO SCHIAPARELLI In while work bers to all the tombs in the most prominent landmark around. -
Newsletter Egypt and Sudan
Newsletter Egypt and Sudan Issue 5, 2018 Introduction Neal Spencer Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan In 1972, fifty years after the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, fifty objects from the king’s burial were displayed at the British Museum in a special exhibition, attracting 1.7 million visitors over nine months. Such visitor numbers remain unheard of today, though a new record has just been set for a touring British Museum exhibition. The Hong Kong Science Museum welcomed over 850,000 visitors to Egyptian mummies: exploring ancient lives last summer. Such exhibitions take years of planning, and the last weeks have seen us send the latest group of Egyptian mummies to a London hospital for dual-energy CT-scanning. While the scanning will reveal new insights into the ancient individuals, some will undoubtedly become the stars of future exhibitions, whether in Bloomsbury or beyond. Back at the British Museum, the Roxie Walker Galleries of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology (Rooms 62–63) were updated with new displays to reflect the fast-changing world of bioarchaeological research, while nearby a rare queen’s diadem was put on display, a three-year loan from the al-Sabah collection. Other contributions in this newsletter highlight collections research and conservation, fieldwork and training programmes. As 2017 drew to a close, the British Museum was awarded two major grants. The Cultural Protection Fund will support a project entitled Circulating Artefacts: a cross-platform alliance against the looting of pharaonic antiquities, working with colleagues in Egypt and Sudan to track objects circulating on the art market and in private collections – this will also be a fantastic research resource. -
Southampton Ancient Egypt Society
The newsletter of The HOTEP Southampton Issue 16: February 2017 Ancient Egypt 2017 Society Review of the January meeting All our speakers are made well aware On Saturday 21 January we welcomed of the length of our meetings at the time of Alan Reiblein, from Manchester, to talk booking and are asked to prepare a 90- about Egyptian Wall Painting. He started minute presentation. From his website it by explaining how there was a wealth of out- appeared that Alan was an experienced of-copyright material available free of charge speaker but his talk was of barely one hour’s from the American Library of Congress which duration and not as well illustrated as it could had provided him with many translations of have been. When it finished at 3.30 I tried to ancient and Classical texts. Alan used extracts extend the afternoon by means of questions from these to give us an overview of how and some input of my own but I suspect that Egyptian art was viewed by the Greeks and some members of the audience, which how Classical appreciation of non-Greek art included several visitors who had been drawn influenced the way modern scholars have to the Society by the appeal of the subject, interpreted Egyptian styles, especially the will have gone away disappointed. If you have conventions regarding the portrayal of the had a good, or bad, experience with a talk we human figure. He compared the similar would be glad to know because personal conventions of representing three-dimensional recommendation is the best guarantee of objects in two dimensions adopted by other finding the best speakers and avoiding the contemporaneous societies. -
Archeologia, Storia Dell'arte, Del
Sede Amministrativa: Università degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: Archeologia, Storia dell’Arte, del Cinema e della Musica ___________________________________________________________________ SCUOLA DI DOTTORATO DI RICERCA IN : Studio e Conservazione dei Beni Archeologici e Architettonici CICLO: XVII “ L’Università di Padova in Egitto. Analisi e ricostruzione dello scavo a Tebtynis attraverso la documentazione inedita ” Direttore della Scuola : Ch.mo Prof. Giuseppe Salemi Supervisore : Ch.mo Prof. Paola Zanovello Dottorando : Giulia Deotto 1. Indice 1 Indice 1. Indice pag. 3 2. Finalità della ricerca pag. 9 3. Carlo Anti e l’Egitto: studio dell’attività scientifica del professore 3.1. Carlo Anti prima della Missione Archeologica in Egitto: spunti per una ricerca sullo studio dell’Egitto Antico nell’ambito delle discipline classiche pag. 10 3.1.1 Brevi cenni biografici pag. 10 3.1.2 Elenco delle opere e degli scritti di Carlo Anti pag. 15 3.2. La Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto (1928-1930) pag. 22 3.2.1 L’archeologia italiana in Egitto prima di Anti: dal Museo Greco- Romano di Alessandria alla Missione di Schiaparelli e alla Società Italiana per la Ricerca dei papiri. pag. 22 3.2.2 La Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto con Carlo Anti: gli esordi pag. 26 3.2.3 Primi passi nella terra del Nilo: Anti e gli altri studiosi italiani presenti in Egitto pag. 42 3.2.4 I fondi della Missione all’inizio della ricerca pag. 45 3.2.5 Il resoconto finanziario della campagna 1928-1929 pag. 51 3.2.6 La missione a Menshiah attraverso le fotografie pag. -
Queen Nefertari's Tomb
This exhibition celebrates the role of women—goddesses, queens, and artisans—in Egypt’s New Kingdom period (c. 1539–1075 BCE), when Egyptian civilization was at its height. These women, including great royal wives, sisters, daughters, and mothers of pharaohs, are brought to life through refined statues, exquisite jewelry and personal objects, votive steles, stone sarcophagi, and painted coffins, as well as items of daily life from the artisan village of Deir el-Medina, home to the craftsmen who built the royal tombs. Drawn from the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, one of the most important and extensive collections of ancient Egyptian works in the world, these treasures showcase the legacy of these amazing women—whose status often verged on divine—and also trace the journey of discovery made by the Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli on the banks of the ancient Nile. Nefertari, whose name means “beautiful companion,” was one of the most celebrated queens of ancient Egypt and the favorite wife of pharaoh Ramesses II (reigned 1279 –1213 BCE). Until the early 1900s, Nefertari was known only through a few sculptures, tomb paintings, and hieroglyphs related to Ramesses II. In 1904, Schiaparelli, then director of the Museo Egizio, discovered her tomb—the most richly decorated in the Valley of the Queens—establishing Nefertari’s revered status. Although the contents had been looted in ancient times, the brilliant murals decorating the tomb depict the perilous journey Nefertari had to make on her path to immortality. Schiaparelli made other significant discoveries in the village of Deir el-Medina that reveal what daily life would have been like for the artisans who constructed Nefertari’s magnificent tomb.