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Southampton Ancient Egypt Society The newsletter of The HOTEP Southampton Issue 17: March 2017 Ancient Egypt Society Review of the February meeting February Quiz Answers: On Saturday 18 February we welcomed Paul Collins, Curator of the This quiz was in two parts. ancient Near East at the Ashmolean Museum, Before you could match the kings to the Oxford, to talk about Egypt and the names of their wives you had to identify Assyrian Empire. Taking the Assyrian point the kings themselves. of view Paul explained how Egypt was seen by the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent and chronicled the interactions between B th A D Egypt and Assyria from the 18 Dynasty to the end of Dynasty 25. He showed how the two empires vied for control of the Levant, a region of strategic and economic importance, and described their different approaches to the needs of trade and C government. This was illustrated with carefully chosen images backed up by a A: Ramesses II B: Tutankhamun C: Amenhotep III D: Akhenaten range of textual evidence, for example the (Luxor) (Karnak) (BM) (Louvre) Amarna Letters, which showed how international relations developed over the Matching spouses from the list: years as Assyria’s power and sphere of A: Nefertari & Merytamun influence increased. By B: Ankhesenamun matching events described C: Tiye & Sitamun in the Bible, especially the D: Nefertiti military campaigns in Syria- That left the following ladies un-paired. Palestine, to contemporary Ahotep was the name of two queens, wives Egyptian and Assyrian texts of Seqenenre Tao II and Amenhotep I. and by dispelling some Mutnedjmet was the wife of Horemheb. common misconceptions Tausert, the wife of Seti II, became Pharaoh Paul went a long way in her own right, the last ruler of Dynasty 19. towards unravelling the Ahmose was the wife of Tuthmose I, and complexities of the period. mother of Hatshepsut. He finished his talk with a Just to confuse matters, Merytamun was ‘What happened next?’ also the name of a wife of Amenhotep II, and moment which was greeted Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of King Ahmose I, by a ripple of approval. This was the mother of Amenhotep I, mother and was by far the best talk we son being worshipped as royal patrons of Deir Taharqa’s son have had in some time. el-Medina. captive in Nineveh We are looking forward to the Ashmolean exhibition on If you want to unravel more royal the beginnings of the Mesopotamian and relationships have a look at ‘The Complete Egyptian states around 3000 BC, which Paul Royal Families of Ancient Egypt’ by Aidan and his colleague Liam MacNamara are Dodson and Dyan Hilton (2004) Thames & preparing for 2018/9. Liam has already been Hudson. approached to give us a talk next season. In the News An App for your appraisal Saturday 11 March 2017 The discovery of a colossal royal Author Ira J Rampil, describes statue was announced on the BBC News and his new app as ‘a new education in the papers. The following is a summary of reference app I have written for the article in the Daily Telegraph under the students and enthusiasts of headline ‘Ramesses the Great discovered ancient Egypt. It is called “Pharaohs of under Cairo housing estate’ Egypt” and it is a self-contain (sic) graphics A joint German-Egyptian archaeological team database and Field Guide to the cartouches of working in the Cairo suburb of Matariyyah has the ancient kings. When the app has an found a statue, broken into several pieces, active network connection, it also provides the believed to be of Ramesses II. The muddy Wikipedia biographic entry for each Pharaoh.’ area being redeveloped is surrounded by The app is more fully described at: unofficial apartment blocks. Previously www.aviametrix.com/pharaohs/ Egyptian authorities had declared it to be of I have purchased this app, price £2.99, and I no archaeological interest and had allowed can see how the comprehensive lists of the establishment of a Thursday Market in the cartouches, mainly given in their horizontal area. The statue had to be lifted by form, might be of use. However, the app mechanical diggers giving rise to accusations gives no indication of the vertical forms and of unprofessional practices but there is really the many variant ‘spellings’ of some common no other way to deal names that might be expected, Ramesses II with such a massive being a prime example. find in a site which is On opening the app the first thing you badly contaminated are asked is to allow the app access to your with sewage and camera and picture album. The idea is for where the water people to photograph their discoveries to be table is high, (left). shared with other enthusiasts but being very The top of the crown, which is as tall as a wary of such ‘sharing’ sites (I do not do child, had to be packed in mud before it could FaceBook, Snapchat etc) I clicked the ‘no’ be lifted safely. (below) button. Users must be aware that they may Dietrich Raue, heading the German team, be giving away the copyright to their own says the statue appears to be a standing images let alone what other access you might portrait of Ramesses II, about 26 feet tall and be granting unknowingly. made of quartzite, a very hard crystalline form The main content is quite derivative. of sandstone. A life-size statue of Seti II, The timeline is taken directly from Ramesses’ grandson, was also found on the Pinterest.com and the sign lists in the sections site. Matariyyah is devoted to writing and reading hieroglyphs built over the ancient are of poor resolution with no acknowledged city of Heliopolis, source, though some of the cartouches are Egyptian Iunu, the said to have been copied from James P Allen’s Biblical On, the cult ‘Middle Egyptian’. centre for the sun- The American author admits to being a god Ra, patron of ‘motivated amateur’ rather than a trained royalty. Egyptologist, inspired by a fortnight’s trip to Egypt partly guided by Zahi Hawass. A little Update: The Daily Telegraph 17 March web research identifies him as an emeritus Egypt’s antiquities minister says a massive professor of anaesthesiology. I would be statue found in Cairo and thought to be of interested to hear what others think about one of the country’s most famous pharaohs this app. may actually be of another ancient Egyptian Hilary ruler. The minister, Khaled al-Anani, told a news conference yesterday that the colossus discovered last week in an eastern Cairo suburb almost certainly depicts Psamtik I, who ruled Egypt between 664 and 610 BC. Moving the new discovery An exhibiti on you might want to see The exhibition explores Lawrence Alma- Tadema’s fascination with the representation Located on the edge of Holland Park in of domestic life in Antiquity and how this Kensington, Leighton House Museum is related to his own domestic circumstances in one of the most remarkable buildings of the the two remarkable studio-houses that he 19th century. Owned and operated by the created in St John’s Wood together with his Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the wife Laura and daughters. Born in the north house was the former home and studio of the of the Netherlands, the exhibition traces his leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord early training and move to London in 1870 Leighton (1830-1896). where he established a hugely successful The house, at first career at the heart of the artistic constructed on a establishment. His work fixed ideas in the modest basis, grew popular imagination of what life in the ancient to become a past ‘looked like’ – ideas and images that ‘private palace of were taken to the stage, film and that remain art’ visited by with us today. The exhibition includes many of the great important works by Tadema himself, his wife artists of the day Laura and daughter Anna with loans coming and regarded as from public and private collections one of the internationally. ‘At Home in Antiquity’ finds architectural sights a perfect setting in Leighton’s own studio- of London. house and includes ‘In My Studio’ presented Leighton’s ‘The Music Lesson’ (1877) The Arab Hall, by Alma-Tadema to Leighton as a token of his designed to esteem and now in a private collection. display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, is the centrepiece of the house. A compelling vision of the Orient is created through the Islamic tiles, mostly brought back from Damascus in Syria, combined with the gold mosaicked interior, marble columns and golden dome. The opulence continues through the richly decorated interiors, adorned with elaborate mosaic floors and walls lined with peacock blue tiles by the ceramic artist William De Morgan. Frederic, Lord Lei ghton (1830-96), was one The Alma-Tadema show also includes the of the pre-eminent artists of his day. most expensive classical Victorian work of art, President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to the $36m painting ‘The Finding of Moses’. 1896, he achieved great fame and influence (above) (The Guardian Monday 3 October as a figurehead for art in late Victorian 2016) society; a period when art enjoyed unprecedented public interest and Leighton House Museum, appreciation. 12 Holland Park Rd, Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity London, W14 8LZ 7 July 2017 – 29 October 2017 Times: Open daily except Tuesdays, The largest exhibition about Leighton’s 10am - 5.30pm contemporary, Lawrence Alma-Tadema to be Website: www.leightonhouse.co.uk shown in London since 1913, At Home in Tel: 020 7602 3316 Antiquity is organised by the Fries Museum, Advance booking is not available - The Netherlands (the artist’s home town) and Tickets on the door only.
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