DÆS
Lørdagsseminar om Post-Amarna-grave
Mødedato: Lørdag 30.4 2022 kl. 11-16
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Kl. 11 – Lise Manniche, mag art., PhD
Variationer over et tema. Musikalske billeder i og efter Amarnatiden
I Amarna-tidens billedkunst møder vi både tradition, nyfortolkning og radikale ændringer. Blandt mange, markante eksempler præsenteres her et enkelt: musikken som den afspejles i kunsten i de 17 turbulente år af Akhenatens regering.
I hvilket omfang overlevede kongens straksløsninger under hans umiddelbare efterfølgere i gravene i Theben og Memphis? I relief og maleri lå der et stort ansvar hos omridstegneren, som gengav det, han anså som korrekt her og nu i forhold til opgaven, men vi kan ikke forvente, at han også havde kendskab til alle detaljer i instrumenter og opførelsespraksis.
Kl. 12.15 – Frokost (medbring selv mad og drikke)
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Kl. 13 – Gabriele Pieke, Curator, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
Finding a New Balance. Non-Royal Tombs of the Post Amarna Period in Western Thebes
The paper gives an overview on the development of non-royal funerary monuments at Thebes from the reign of Tutankhamun to Horemheb in terms of social stratum of owners, the location of the monuments in the necropolis, and the architecture of the cult chapels. The changes in tomb decoration will be illustrated by some selected chapels, which were built shortly after the Amarna period such as Parennefer/ Wennenfer, Amenhotep Huy, or Neferhotep.
These tombs exhibit iconographic programs, which rely on traditional images on the one hand but also integrate new concepts and even Amarna motifs. The concept and composition of some of these chapels appear to be strongly influenced by the Amarna period, while at the same time explicit image quotations link the tombs to their pre-Amarna neighbours at Thebes. The preserved funerary sculpture likewise attests traditional Theban forms but also certain shifts.
Kl. 14.15 – Pause
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Kl. 14.45 – Nico Staring, F.R.S.-FNRS / Université de Liège
Saqqara during the post-Amarna period
The Amarna period presents an exciting episode in pharaonic history. The period spans less than two decades yet witnessed major social and religious transformations. Akhenaten, ordered the construction of a rock-cut tomb east of his new city, and the highest palace officials and administrators (the ‘elite’) followed his example. In so doing, they left the necropolises associated with the traditional foremost cities of the kingdom, Thebes and Memphis.
Soon after king Akhenaten died, his city, Akhetaten, entered a process of abandonment. The elite moved north to Memphis and built their tombs on the desert plateau west of the old city. This lecture focuses on the Memphite necropolis of Saqqara during the post-Amarna period, and explores what effects the events of the Amarna and post-Amarna period had on the cemetery’s development and tomb art.
I Slangegudindens By: Flinders Petrie at Tell Nabasha
Støbeform til sistrum
Mødedato: Lørdag 21.5 2022 Kl. 14.00
Lokale: KUA – 15A.0.13
I Slangegudindens By: Flinders Petrie at Tell Nabasha, v. Dr Nicky Nielsen, Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology, Manchester University
I foråret 1886 udgravede den britiske arkæolog Flinders Petrie og hans assistent Francis Griffith et stort område i det østlige Nildelta der er kendt som Tell Nabasha (eller Tell Nebesheh). Området husede engang den regionale hovedstad Imet, et af de primære kult-centre for slangegudinden Wadjet.
Dette foredrag udforsker Petries udgravninger i områder blandt andet ved at præsentere ikke-udgivne artefakter som Petrie fandt i området og som i dag opbevares på British Museum i London samt Boston Museum of Fine Art. Udover disse præsenteres også arkivmateriale fra Egypt Exploration Society, the Griffith Institute og Petrie Museum i London samt resultater fra foredragsholderens egne udgravninger ved Tell Nabasha.
Dr Nicky Nielsen har siden 2014 arbejdet på materiale fra Tell Nabasha, og han er forfatter til den kommende bog Excavating the City of the Snake Goddess: Flinders Petrie at Tell Nabasha.
Demotic Medical Papyri in Denmark
Amber Jacob
Mødedato: Torsdag 2.6 2022 Kl. 17.30 – døren låses 17.20!
Antikmuseet på Aarhus Universitet,
Victor Albecksvej, Århus C, bygning 1414
Demotic Medical Papyri in Denmark: Insights into Medical Practice in Graeco-Roman Egypt, v. Amber Jacob, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NY
This paper will present an overview of an unpublished corpus of Demotic medical texts currently being edited for publication by the author. The corpus comprises the largest collection worldwide of Egyptian medical texts from the Graeco-Roman period, deriving from the well-documented Tebtunis Temple Library in the Fayum Oasis.
The majority of this material is held in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection at the University of Copenhagen, with a smaller number of fragments in other collections. Having a known archaeological context for these texts is in itself unique amongst medical papyri from Egypt, and the corpus affords opportunities for research goals in largely unexplored avenues of ancient medicine.
For instance, Tebtunis has additionally yielded around thirteen Greek medical papyri, some of which were likely copied by the same bilingual Egyptian scribes responsible for the Demotic texts. The corpus thus provides an unprecedented opportunity for a case-study in the cross-cultural exchange of medical knowledge in antiquity. Further, the corpus reveals insights into previously unrecognized features of Egyptian medicine, including the first discovered Egyptian treatise on nephrology, the branch of medicine concerning the kidneys.
Dermatological treatises reveal a point of common concern between the Demotic and Greek texts and form connections with other papyri from the library concerning cult-hierarchy. The proctological material, however, represents a distinctly Egyptian tradition. The manuscripts also contain a trove of information on ancient pharmacy and botany. This paper will provide an overview of the main medical themes and methods of the texts while also seeking to illuminate their professional, social context and the manuscript tradition in which they were written.
Archive or not? Amarna letters in Egyptian perspective
Amarna – Central city plan
Mødedato: Onsdag 11.5 2022 kl. 19.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
Archive or not? Amarna letters in Egyptian perspective, v. Jana Mynářová, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Charles University, Prague
Because of the richness of details and the very nature of the individual texts, the Amarna letters traditionally occupy a very prominent position in the discussion of relations between Egypt and its partners in the ancient Near East, especially in the second half of the second millennium BCE.
At the same time, however, these texts, written in cuneiform on clay tablets, form an integral part of the rich body of Egyptian material culture from Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten).
The aim of this lecture is to present the historical and social context in which cuneiform and Egyptian cultures interacted on Egyptian soil and what their immediate cultural and political relationship was. Based on the analysis of archaeological and written sources, the background of this largely hybrid tradition will be reconstructed.
Demotic Medical Papyri in Denmark – og sommerfest
Amber Jacob
Mødedato: Onsdag 8.6 2022 Kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
Sommerfest efter foredraget
Demotic Medical Papyri in Denmark: Insights into Medical Practice in Graeco-Roman Egypt, v. Amber Jacob, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NY
This paper will present an overview of an unpublished corpus of Demotic medical texts currently being edited for publication by the author. The corpus comprises the largest collection worldwide of Egyptian medical texts from the Graeco-Roman period, deriving from the well-documented Tebtunis Temple Library in the Fayum Oasis.
The majority of this material is held in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection at the University of Copenhagen, with a smaller number of fragments in other collections. Having a known archaeological context for these texts is in itself unique amongst medical papyri from Egypt, and the corpus affords opportunities for research goals in largely unexplored avenues of ancient medicine.
For instance, Tebtunis has additionally yielded around thirteen Greek medical papyri, some of which were likely copied by the same bilingual Egyptian scribes responsible for the Demotic texts. The corpus thus provides an unprecedented opportunity for a case-study in the cross-cultural exchange of medical knowledge in antiquity. Further, the corpus reveals insights into previously unrecognized features of Egyptian medicine, including the first discovered Egyptian treatise on nephrology, the branch of medicine concerning the kidneys.
Dermatological treatises reveal a point of common concern between the Demotic and Greek texts and form connections with other papyri from the library concerning cult-hierarchy. The proctological material, however, represents a distinctly Egyptian tradition. The manuscripts also contain a trove of information on ancient pharmacy and botany. This paper will provide an overview of the main medical themes and methods of the texts while also seeking to illuminate their professional, social context and the manuscript tradition in which they were written.
DÆS-sommerfest onsdag d. 8.6 2022 efter foredraget
Lørdagsseminar om Bes
Bes. Glyptoteket ÆIN 220 (foto: Anders Sune Berg)
Mødedato: Lørdag d. 25/9 2021 kl. 11-16
Lokale: KUA1 22.0.11
11.00 – Foredrag 1, v. Lise Manniche, mag art., PhD
12.15 – Frokost (medbring selv mad og drikke)
13.00 – Foredrag 2 v. Olaf Kaper, Professor of Egyptology, Leiden University
14.15 – Pause
14.45 – Foredrag 3, v. Christian E. Loeben, August Kestner Museum Hannover
I forbindelse med BES-udstillingen på Glyptoteket (30/4-31/10 2021) vil lørdagsseminaret handle om Bes. Udstillingen er blevet til i samarbejde med Allard Pierson Museet i Amsterdam og August Kestner Museet i Hannover.
I Amsterdam var Olaf Kaper gæstekurator for udstillingen, og i Hannover, hvor udstillingen rejser til efter København, er Christian E. Loeben kurator. Det er således disse to, der sammen med Lise vil fortælle den lille, grimme, kære dæmongud Bes.
Lyden af Bes v. mag.art., PhD. Lise Manniche
I de senere år er der kommet fokus på “lyde” i det gamle Ægypten, ikke bare klangen af musikinstrumenter, men lyd generelt. Dette særlige fagområde kaldes nu for “arkæoakustik” eller “soundscapes” (modsat “landscapes”). Efter at have beskæftiget mig med Bes’ udseende, hans betydning for fertilitet og fødsler, og i et vist omfang med hans musikinstrumenter er det derfor nærliggende at præsentere “Lyden af Bes” i en lidt bredere sammenhæng og med særlig fokus på hans stemme, og hvordan han brugte den.
The small gods of Ancient Egypt: examining Bes and Tutu v. Olaf Kaper, Professor of Egyptology, Leiden University
The gods of the ancient Egyptians were very many indeed, and the gods were grouped together in many different ways. Bes belongs to a class of gods that we may call “small gods”, with the use of an ancient Egyptian term. This lecture will discuss the place of Bes in the pantheon and compare him to the god Tutu, with whom Bes is sometimes depicted together.
By looking at the role of the small gods, we can understand better how the Egyptians saw their world and how they dealt with the overwhelming amount of divine beings that could help or threaten them.
Bes and Thoeris, two “small gods” in Ancient Egypt: same competence – different careers v. Christian Loeben, Museum August Kestner, Hannover
It is a remarkable phenomenon: The goddess Thoeris, Egyptian Ta-Weret (“The-Great-One”), has enjoyed adoration for the longest time in Egyptian history. However, Bes who really became Bes only as late as in Dynasty 26 (c. 600 B.C.E.) would very quickly supersede the venerable goddess as the most popular deity in the realm of Egyptian private life.
The lecture will analyse the mechanisms behind it and will finally show that the career of Bes in the later phases of Egyptian religion was not only an extraordinary one but was also exceedingly diverse.
Det abeagtige Egypterland. Fordom og fascination i Thomas Manns Josef og hans brødre
Thomas Mann
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 7/10 2021 kl. 17.20 – døren låses!
Antikmuseet på Aarhus Universitet,
Victor Albecksvej, Århus C, bygning 1414
Det abeagtige Egypterland. Fordom og fascination i Thomas Manns Josef og hans brødre, v. Morten Dyssel, cand.mag. i tysk, Formand for Det Danske Thomas Mann Selskab
Foredraget analyserer fremstillingen af egyptisk væsen og civilisation i den tyske forfatter Thomas Manns monumentale bibelgendigtning Josef og hans brødre (1933-1943).
På den ene side fungerer Egypten som eksplicit mod- og fjendebillede til Guds udvalgte folk Israel, og på den anden side er der ikke så få ligheder endda mellem ‘det abeagtige Egypterland’ og de åndeligt selvbevidste israelitter.
Der gives udvalgte eksempler på den egensindige brug af det gamle Egyptens mytologi, teologi, kultur, litteratur, arkitektur, kunst og politik med særligt henblik på den digteriske forvaltning og fortolkning af dette oldtidshistoriske stof i Thomas Manns episke romantetralogi.
Professional weavers and their looms in Roman Egypt
Romersk tunika
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 14/10 2021, kl. 19.00
Lokale: KUA1 22.0.11
Professional weavers and their looms in Roman Egypt, v. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, Post-Doc. Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Research (CTR), Københavns Universitet
In addition to agriculture, textile production was one of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy from the Pharaonic era to the medieval Arab period. The question of the different types of looms and the specialised weavers is one of the most crucial issues for understanding the evolution of textile production and its technological development in the Nile Valley.
This presentation is an attempt to re-interpret some of the evidence, mainly papyrological and iconographic, which could add new data to the study of professional weavers and their looms in Egypt in the Roman period.
This research is conducted in the framework of the group ‘Egyptian weaving Tools and Looms’ of twelve experts coming from various horizons: archaeology, experimental archaeology, textile analysis, ethnographic research and Greek papyrology The goal of the project is to write a collective article on tools and looms in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the early Arab period.
The group has been created in 2020 to continue our collective research started in 2017 with the workshop Egyptian Textiles and their Production: ‘Word’ and ‘Object’ (for the publication, see: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/egyptextiles/), organised as part of the MONTEX project under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no MSCA 701479, hosted by Saxo-Institute: CTR.
Lokaleændring!!! I Nordens fodspor
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Mødedato: Tirsdag d. 7/12 2021 Kl. 18.00
Lokale ændret til: KUA1 4A.0.69
I Nordens fodspor, v. Lektor Emeritus Paul John Frandsen
To kæmpestore fransksprogede bind med ca. 160 kobberstik blev det synlige resultat af Frederik Ludvig Nordens deltagelse i en dansk ekspeditions rejse op og ned ad Nilen i 1737.
Den første danske udgave kom så sent som for 10 år siden. Foredraget vil følge Nordens rejse til 2. katarakt med udgangspunkt i en PowerPoint-præsentation af hans aldrig publicerede rentegninger, der i dag befinder sig på Det kongelige Bibliotek.
JULEFEST efter foredraget. Vi følges til frokoststuen i TORS.
Ægypten før faraonernes tid – et tekstilhistorisk synspunkt
Kjole fra Tarkhan
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 28/10 2021 Kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA1 15a.0.13
Ægypten før faraonernes tid – et tekstilhistorisk synspunkt, v. Anne Drewsen, cand.mag. Nærorientalsk Arkæologi, gæsteforsker Centre for Textile Research
Grundstenen til det faraoniske Ægypten, vi kender, blev lagt i den prædynastiske periode i tiden før 3000 f.Kr. Aftenens foredrag fortæller historien ud fra tekstilhistoriens synspunkt og kommer ind på rituelt brug af tekstil, tekstilfremstilling og handel med tekstiler samt trækker tråde til det faraoniske rige.
I historien indgår også begravelsen af elefanter, krokodiller og en flodhest svøbt i tekstil, de første forsøg på mumificering, og hvorfor det er interessant, hvor råvaren til tekstil, hør, kommer fra.
Ingeniøren og de ægyptiske mumier: En kioskbasker fra 1910’erne
Mødedato: Tirsdag d. 2/11 2021 kl. 17.20 – døren låses!
Antikmuseet på Aarhus Universitet,
Victor Albecksvej, Århus C, bygning 1414
Ingeniøren og de ægyptiske mumier: En kioskbasker fra 1910’erne, v. Thomas Christiansen, PhD i ægyptologi
En barok historie, der omhandler antikvitetshandel, en anløben ingeniør og tre ægyptiske mumier og deres kister, udfoldede sig i København i starten 1910’erne. Den vakte stor opsigt i samtiden og blev rapporteret i en lang række dagblade, men er sidenhen hensunket i glemsel.
Historien fortjener at blive genfortalt nøje, da den udover sin iboende underholdningsværdi indeholder vigtige og hidtil ukendte informationer om betydningsfulde ægyptiske antikviteter, der i dag er udstillet på henholdsvis Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek og Antikmuseet i Aarhus.
Bogauktion og Ingeniøren og de ægyptiske mumier
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 4/11 2021 kl 18.00
Lokale: KUA2 10.3.28 (frokoststuen på TORS)
Først bogauktion (bogliste kommer senere)
Derefter:
Ingeniøren og de ægyptiske mumier: En kioskbasker fra 1910’erne, v. Thomas Christiansen, PhD i ægyptologi
En barok historie, der omhandler antikvitetshandel, en anløben ingeniør og tre ægyptiske mumier og deres kister, udfoldede sig i København i starten 1910’erne. Den vakte stor opsigt i samtiden og blev rapporteret i en lang række dagblade, men er sidenhen hensunket i glemsel.
Historien fortjener at blive genfortalt nøje, da den udover sin iboende underholdningsværdi indeholder vigtige og hidtil ukendte informationer om betydningsfulde ægyptiske antikviteter, der i dag er udstillet på henholdsvis Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek og Antikmuseet i Aarhus.
Sociale netværk blandt gravejere i det Ny Rige
Amenemhets grav (TT82)
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 18/11 2021 Kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA1 15a.0.13
Sociale netværk blandt gravejere i det Ny Rige – en præliminær udredning af trådene, v. Rune Olsen, Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Dette foredrag fokuserer på det igangværende projekt “Navigating new economic networks in ancient Egypt”, som er sponseret af Carlsbergfondet, og som huses af McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research på University of Cambridge.
Projektet forsøger at kortlægge de sociale og økonomiske netværk, som eksisterede mellem gravejere af monumentale klippegrave i det Ny Rige. Store mængder af ressourcer og arbejdskraft blev tydeligvis brugt i konstruktionen af disse grave, men det er ikke tydeligt, hvorfra disse investeringer kom. De fleste af de private gravejere repræsenterede dog de statslige institutioner og administration, og det er tænkeligt, at man har udnyttet sin position til at omdirigere arbejdskraft og ressourcer fra kongelige/statslige byggeprojekter til egne formål.
Ved hjælp af analysemetoden “Social Network Analysis” er det muligt at kvalificere denne påstand og identificere de sammenfald i strukturerne af gravejernes netværk, som indikerer adgang til de nødvendige ressourcer. Samtidig undersøger projektet tesen om, at de steder, hvor grupperinger af gravejere og deres familiemedlemmer forekommer i netværkene, faktisk udgjorde kernen i de statslige institutioner og administrationscentre i oldtidens Ægypten. Foredraget vil præsentere baggrunden for projektet, give en statusrapport på projektforløbet, og berette om nogle af de uventede udfordringer, det seneste år har budt på.
El-Reis: Co-curated exhibitions
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 25/11 2021 Kl. 17.30 – NY TID!!!!
Lokale: KUA1 15a.0.13
El-Reis: Co-curated exhibitions as means of connecting to heritage, v. Wesam Mohamed, PhD-studerende Aarhus Universitet
Efter foredraget vil vi se livestreaming af åbningen af sfinxalleen mellem Luxor og Karnak – Opetfesten genskabt.
Since the 19th century and until today, Egyptian local workmen proved to be very central to the success of all archaeological work, inside both sites and museums.
However, their work has been unrecognized for a long time and their history was kept in the shadow of other big names. El-Reis, is a co-curated exhibition which was recently organized in Luxor to introduce the Egyptian workmen as mediator between archaeology and the locals, to foster community engagement with archaeology, and to promote ownership and inclusiveness. More than 500 images were displayed at the exhibition, in addition to a variety of personal possessions. Most of which were brought to us by the workmen.
The exhibition focused on the use of exhibitions as ‘laboratories’ to locate and refine best practice in community engagement, with the aim of facilitating sustainable protection of heritage into the future. It gives understanding to multiple perspectives through the participation of the workmen, and the debates around identity, post-colonialism, the protection of antiquities, as well as contributing theoretical understanding of the value of heritage.
This talk will discuss means of community engagement to heritage through the work of the local workmen in archaeology, and how one exhibition could provide a rich platform of invaluable discussions.
El-Reis: Co-curated exhibitions
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 2/12 2021 kl. 17.20 – døren låses!
Antikmuseet på Aarhus Universitet,
Victor Albecksvej, Århus C, bygning 1414
El-Reis: Co-curated exhibitions as means of connecting to heritage, v. Wesam Mohamed, PhD-studerende Aarhus Universitet
Since the 19th century and until today, Egyptian local workmen proved to be very central to the success of all archaeological work, inside both sites and museums.
However, their work has been unrecognized for a long time and their history was kept in the shadow of other big names. El-Reis, is a co-curated exhibition which was recently organized in Luxor to introduce the Egyptian workmen as mediator between archaeology and the locals, to foster community engagement with archaeology, and to promote ownership and inclusiveness. More than 500 images were displayed at the exhibition, in addition to a variety of personal possessions. Most of which were brought to us by the workmen.
The exhibition focused on the use of exhibitions as ‘laboratories’ to locate and refine best practice in community engagement, with the aim of facilitating sustainable protection of heritage into the future. It gives understanding to multiple perspectives through the participation of the workmen, and the debates around identity, post-colonialism, the protection of antiquities, as well as contributing theoretical understanding of the value of heritage.
This talk will discuss means of community engagement to heritage through the work of the local workmen in archaeology, and how one exhibition could provide a rich platform of invaluable discussions.