The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt – og sommerfest
Mødedato: Tirsdag d. 23. maj Kl. 18
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The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt, v. Professor Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol
For a few decades during the 8th to 7th centuries BC, there was a remarkable reversal of the age-old imperial domination of Nubia by Egypt. In the wake of the fragmentation of the Egyptian state during the 8th century, the Kushite state that had evolved in Nubia since Egyptian withdrawal at the beginning of the 11th century expanded northwards, ultimately absorbing the south of Egypt, including Thebes itself. Having established themselves as overlords of the various regional rulers in Egypt, the Nubian pharaohs led a national revival in Egypt, until an Assyrian onslaught drove them back into Nubia, where their composite of Egyptian and Nubian culture would survive into the 4th century AD.
Aidan Dodson has taught Egyptology at the University of Bristol, UK, since 1996, and has been honorary full Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a former Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society. The author of some 25 books and over 400 articles and reviews, The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: their lives and afterlives is due to be published by the American University in Cairo Press at the end of 2023.
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Rescuing More of the Lost City of the Pyramids
Mødedato: Lørdag d. 4. marts kl. 14
Lokale: Online via Zoom og i KUA 15a.0.13
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Rescuing More of the Lost City of the Pyramids – Season 2023 Update, v. Mark Lehner, Director and President of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. (AERA)
For 35 years, teams from Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) have been clearing, mapping and excavating in the Heit el-Ghurab (HeG) site of 4th Dynasty settlement (c. 2600 BC), about 400 meters south of the Great Sphinx, finding the houses, barracks, bakeries, workshops and cattle corral of the pyramid builders. Heit el-Ghurab, ‘Wall of the Crow’ in Arabic, is the name of the site, after the 200-meter long, 10 meter-tall, stone wall with a great gate that borders the site on the Northwest.
In the last two years the AERA team has been able to find major parts of the site that had been covered for more than 40 years by a sports club and soccer field, which were removed in 2021. The focus is on the Royal Administrative Building (RAB), which contained the central grains store for the pyramid builders’ city. AERA excavated the northern end of the RAB, protruding from under the soccer field, between 2002 and 2007. Now, the AERA team excavates rest of the building to the south, under the hypothesis that it was an important element of a wider palace city at Giza, the earlier parts of which are attested in the newly-discovered Wadi el-Jarf Papyri. I report to the Danish Egyptological Society the latest findings, fresh from the field, and from the work in progress.
Den svarta pyramiden
Norden Vue des Pyramides
Mødedato: Torsdag d. 16. 3 2023 kl. 18
Lokale: KUA – 15A.0.13
Den svarta pyramiden: Fakta och fiktion i nordisk tidigmodern egyptologi v. Joachim Östlund, docent och lektor i historia vid Lunds Universitet
I början av 1700-talet kom vetetenskapsresenärer från Sverige och Danmark att besöka Egypten i syfte att utforska dess fornhistoria. Dessa expeditioner genomfördes under en tid då nya vetenskapliga ideal kom att utmana äldre teorier om det forntida Egypten. Detta föredrag handlar om vilka teorier som överlevde, utmanades eller omvärderades samt vilken kunskap som producerades om det forntida Egypten i Norden.
Lørdagsseminar om Amarna
Mødedato: lørdag d. 25. marts 2023 kl. 11-16
Kl. 11 – Gravpladserne i Akhetaten, v. Ph.d. Sofie Schiodt, Postdoc Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen
Siden 2006 har et internationalt hold af forskere foretaget udgravninger af en række gravpladser i Amarna (oldtidens Akhetaten). Denne by blev grundlagt af farao Akhenaten, som kun regerede i 17 år, hvorefter byen blev forladt, og den giver dermed et enestående øjebliksbillede af Ægypten i det 14. århundrede f.v.t. I december 2022 færdiggjorde vi den sidste udgravningssæson ved gravpladserne, og mens der stadig ligger meget databehandlingsarbejde forude, har udgravningerne allerede givet os et fascinerende indblik i, hvordan livet så ud for den almene ægypter under Akhenaten. I dette foredrag vil jeg fortælle om de opdagelser, vi har gjort i løbet af det årelange arbejde, og hvilken ny viden det bidrager med.
Kl. 12.15 – Frokost (medbring selv mad og drikke)
Kl. 13 -The Great Aten Temple at Amarna: 2012-2022, v. Barry Kemp – zoom i lokalet
The Great Aten Temple at Amarna: 2012-2022, v. Barry Kemp, Director of the Amarna Project, Senior Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University
The Amarna Project commenced its work at the site of the Great Aten Temple in 2012 and has continued until now. The temple comprises a space measuring 750 x 270 m, surrounded by a thick mud-brick wall. Inside are the remains of two stone temples: the Long Temple towards the front (in the past identified with the building with the ancient name Gempa-aten) and the Sanctuary towards the back. This leaves the greater part of the space within the enclosure unaccounted for.
Most of the expedition’s work so far has been concentrated on the Long Temple and the ground in front. It had previously been excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society in 1932 (the director being John Pendlebury). In further pursuit of an answer, in 2021 and 2022 a new excavation was begun at the very back of the temple enclosure (carried out by Fabien Balestra, a member of the expedition). It began with a re-examination of a wide gateway flanked by buttresses attached to the enclosure wall, first identified in 1932. Beyond it and within the temple enclosure, two adjacent areas have been excavated.
The programme of the expedition includes the rebuilding of the outlines of the temple in new stone blocks once an area has been cleaned and recorded by drawing and photography. The costs of the stone blocks (purchased from a fine limestone quarry at El-Tura) are partly borne by public subscription.
For details of how to become engaged see:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/be-part-of-the-great-aten-temple
Reports on the work at the temple can be found (freely available) at:
https://www.amarnaproject.com/pages/recent_projects/excavation/great_aten_temple/
The Amarna Project’s free newsletter, Horizon, can be found at:
https://www.amarnaproject.com/downloadable_resources.shtml
The digital reconstructions of the temple which appear in the lecture are the work of Paul Docherty.
Kl. 14.15 – Pause
Kl. 14.45 – Colours for the Aten: The Manufacture of Glass and Faience in the workshops of Amarna, v. Anna K. Hodgkinson
When the new capital city of Akhetaten was established, workshops and craftspeople were required to furnish and embellish the palaces, temples and the villas of the elite. Colourful inlays from faience, glass and stone were produced, and these would adorn architecture, wooden furniture and burial equipment, creating beautiful marshland scenes and images of royal power.
Jewellery, and cosmetic vessels from faience and glass, were popular throughout the population and produced in great numbers. Focussing on the results of recent fieldwork at Amarna site M50.14-16 and glass-working experiments, this lecture will discuss both how glass- and faience objects were made, and what role a domestic workshop had in the city of Amarna.
The Obelisks of the Caesars: Egyptomania in Ancient Rome v. Luigi Prada efterfulgt af auktion over Lises bøger og effekter
Mødedato: Tirsdag d. 18/4 2023 kl 18.00
Lokale: KUA2 10.3.28 (frokoststuen på TORS)
Først foredrag efterfulgt af auktion over Lises bøger og effekter
The Obelisks of the Caesars: Egyptomania in Ancient Rome v. Luigi Prada, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Uppsala Universitet
Today, there are more obelisks standing in Rome than there are in any other city, including Egypt—with more to be found in other locations around Italy and what used to be the Roman Empire.
Starting with Augustus and for centuries since, the Romans removed from Egypt tens of obelisks to display them in their cities as monuments to their power. But the Roman interest in Egypt’s obelisks was not limited to their re-use as political propaganda. In several cases, the Romans themselves commissioned new obelisks, having them carved with unique and peculiar inscriptions.
Far from being spoils of war, such obelisks stand as ancient monuments of cultural appropriation, through which Rome’s emperors and notables claimed for themselves Egypt’s linguistic, religious, and artistic traditions.
This talk will present the story of Rome’s fascination with ancient Egypt and its obelisks, focusing on a number of particularly significant case studies. By integrating the study of their social and cultural context with newly prepared textual and epigraphic analyses of their inscriptions, it will show how Egyptian obelisks—commissioned by both emperors and private citizens—not only fitted in the Empire’s political agenda, but also constituted part of the cultural life of its elites.
Kharga routes
Mødedato: Onsdag d. 3/5 2023 kl 19.00
Lokale: KUA 22.0.11
Kharga routes, v. Professor Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo
Since 2001, the North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS) has been systematically exploring the northern portion of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert. NKOS has worked on identifying and locating new archaeological sites, assessing the extent of the visible sites, as well as recording evidence for desert travel along the paths connection the various sites.
By combining all this information, it clearly appears that Kharga was an important desert crossroad where the north-south caravan route (known as the Darb el-Arbain) met an east-west route, that connected to the neighbouring Dakhla Oasis, and ultimately to the Gifl el-Kebir area, as well as to Lower Egypt via the other Western Desert oases. Then importance of this east-west axis has hitherto been underestimated.
Oldægypten i København: De Dødes By
Obelisk på Frederiksberg Gamle Kirkegård © www.gravsted.dk (foto:fl)
Mødedato: Lørdag d. 13. maj Kl. 14
Mødested: Nørrebros Runddel ved indgangen til Assistens Kirkegård.
Oldægypten i København: De Dødes By. Gåtur med Ph.d. Ole Herslund
Vigtigt! Husk at medbringe et Rejsekort eller lign., da turen delvist går via Metroen. Turen slutter ved Frederiksberg Gamle Kirkegård.
På tværs af landet kan man på diverse kirkegårde se historiske gravmonumenter, der er direkte inspireret af faraonisk arkitektur og symbolik.
De gamle kirkegårde i København og på Frederiksberg er ingen undtagelse, så endnu engang er det tid til at snøre vandreskoene og denne gang besøge nogle af de gravanlæg, som har hentet inspiration fra det oldægyptiske formsprog. Turen tager os delvist igennem vores egen historie og kulturarv men giver også mulighed for at opridse både paralleller og kontraster mellem dansk gravskik og den faraoniske verden.
En verden, der jo er så kendt for sine elaborerede og ofte monumentale begravelser. I punktnedslag vil der være fokus på såkaldt mausoleum-kultur, gravbesøg, ihukommelse af forfædre og hvorledes monumentale gravanlæg kan være med til at skabe en fælles kulturel hukommelse.
En fremtid for fortiden – og julefest
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Mødedato: Tirsdag 6.12 2022 kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
En fremtid for fortiden – om forsøget på at bevare ”il-zimaan il-gamiil”, v. Katrine Mandrup Bach, Cand.scient.anth., ph.d.- studerende, Antropoligi, Aarhus Universitet
I Ægypten bliver historiske bygninger revet ned, nye motorveje sendes gennem gamle islamiske kirkegårde og grønne områder forsvinder til fordel for parkeringspladser. Imens bygger staten en ny storslået hovedstad kun 50 km udenfor Cairo. Store byggeprojekter er ikke noget nyt i landet, men den nye administrative hovedstad og massive nedrivninger har fået flere til at spørge: ”Hvad skal der dog ske med Cairo?”
Siden revolutionen i 2011 er der blevet dannet en lang række initiativer, som alle forsøger at bevare nogle af de gamle bygninger og byområder, som er truet med nedrivning. Det er særligt bygninger fra perioden 1850-1950, som er kendt som il-zimaan il-gamiil, den smukke tid, som bliver revet ned til fordel for nye tætpakkede højhuse.
Ægyptens kulturarvslovgivning definerer nemlig ’kulturarv’ som bygninger, ting eller steder, der er mere end 100 år gamle, hvilket betyder at meget af landets moderne og yngre kulturarv er kommet i en særligt prekær situation.
Katrine Bach er i gang med at skrive afhandling om en gruppe af kulturarvsinitiativer, der arbejder på at ændre definitionen af ’kulturarv’. Med afsæt i ni måneders etnografisk feltarbejde i Cairo og Port Said vil hun fortælle om de helt særlige omstændigheder, der har gjort det svært at sikre bevaringsværdige bygninger i Ægypten – fra lovgivningen og interessen i den ægyptiske oldtid til kolonihistorien og den nuværende politiske situation.
JULEFEST efter foredraget. Vi følges til frokoststuen i TORS.
Oldægypten i København: De Levendes By
Rundetårn 1912
Mødedato: Onsdag 17.8 2022 kl. 17.30 v Rundetårn
Oldægypten i København: De Levendes By. En byvandring v. Ole Herslund
Turen starter ved Rundetårn og slutter ved Hovedbanegården KBH H
Igennem de sidste 400 år har Ægyptens arkitektoniske formsprog og symbolik tjent som inspirationskilde til en række bygninger og monumenter opført på tværs af det historiske København.
Så vi snører vandreskoene, drager gennem Indre By og besøger de steder der bærer referencer til oldtidens Ægypten. Her kommer vi på en tur gennem vores egen historie, kulturarv og fælles hukommelse, mens de enkelte arkitektoniske værker afslører fortidens skiftende ideologier, viden, forventninger og fordomme om den faraoniske verden.
En verden som danskerne historisk set, og til stadighed, forbinder med guddommelig kongemagt og civilisation, okkultisme, magi og mystisk, slaveri og udfrielse, orientalisme og underholdning, mens byen samtidig rummer monumenter over ægyptologisk forskning, ekspeditioner og samlinger i verdensklasse. – Ole vil på et senere tidspunkt arrangere en gåtur i de dødes København.
Textiles in Ancient Egypt: a view from the New Kingdom
Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi
Mødedato: Torsdag 22.9 2022 kl. 19.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
Textiles in Ancient Egypt: a view from the New Kingdom, v. Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoc at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen
Textiles in Ancient Egypt, as well as in other ancient societies, were used for multifold purposes: from dressing the people to furnishing the house, from religious ceremonies to wrapping and covering the bodies of the deceased.
In Pharaonic Egypt, textiles were made primarily of linen, and they still impress modern scholars with their extreme fineness and the high craftsmanship of their creators. There are no doubts that textiles and their production occupied a very important role of the Egyptian economy.
But what are the sources that we can use to understand the New Kingdom textile industry? Which objects have preserved, what can they tell us and how can we study them to learn as much as possible?
This presentation will give an overview of the available sources, archaeological and textual, that can offer a picture of the textile production in the New Kingdom. Furthermore, it will focus on a case study, Deir el-Medina, to highlight the potential of a complete approach on the topic but also the limits of the materials under study.
Nogle væsentlige slanger i Oldtidens Ægypten
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Mødedato: Torsdag 27.10 2022 kl. 18.00
Lokale: KUA – 15A.0.13
Nogle væsentlige slanger i Oldtidens Ægypten, v. Mette Gregersen, Cand.phil.
I Oldtidens Ægypten har slanger i lighed med andre dyr spillet en vigtig rolle. Generelt gennemsyrer Dualismen mange forhold i landet, og ikke overraskende gør den sig også gældende, når det drejer sig om slangerne i religion og mytologi.
Således er de to køn repræsenteret både i form af venligsindede, beskyttende eksemplarer og det stik modsatte. Disse ærefrygtindgydende og skræmmende skabninger er først og fremmest afbildet i grave, på tempelvægge og på steler; men forekommer eksempelvis også som symbol på kongemagten i form af en kobraslange på kongens pande.
Foredraget vil på baggrund af kildemateriale i form af tekster og billeder belyse nogle af disse specielle væsener, først og fremmest Wadjet, Apophis og Mehen som nok de kendteste, men også mindre kendte som bl.a. Ouroboros, Meretseger, Renenutet og Sa-Ta. Eksempler fra litteraturen og her i blandt forskellige myter med slanger som væsentlige aktører berøres også.
News from the Tomb of the Sculptor Ipuy (TT 217)
Mødedato: Torsdag 3.11 2022 kl. 18.00
Lokale: 15A.0.13
Samt på zoom med dette link (håber vi)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86456006321?pwd=NmhuU2g0NmNzVDNNa2hyWWlyZ0Q2Zz09
der i dette semester underviser på ToRS, Københavns Universitet, Se her: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kathrin-Gabler.
The rock-cut tomb of the sculptor Ipuy, TT 217, is located in the Western Necropolis of Deir el-Medina. Built in the first half of the reign of Ramesses II (1279–1250 BC), its chapel features polychrome wall paintings that depict various professional scenes of an exceptional nature. Therefore, TT 217 is special among the 53 decorated tombs on-site. The funerary complex has been only partially investigated and documented, especially by Norman de Garis Davies while working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Davies 1927).
The lecture will highlight the microcosm surrounding the tomb and the family of Ipuy and show the first results after fieldwork in 2021 and 2022, with a particular focus on the documentation of over 1000 wall and statue fragments collected by Davies in the early 20th century. TT 217 will be comprehensively re-investigated, documented, contextualized and published in the next years with modern techniques and methods, as part of the mission Deir el-Médina, in cooperation with the Ifao Cairo.
Lørdagsseminar om Tutankhamon og hans grav
’First steps of tomb found.’ 4. november1922
Mødedato: Lørdag 19.11 2022 kl. 11-16
Lokale: KUA – 22.0.11 og på zoom
Kl. 11 – Lektor Emeritus Paul John Frandsen
Tutankhamons grav. Arkæologi og politik
Fundet af Tutankhamons grav for 100 år siden var et højdepunkt udforskningen af den faraoniske kultur. Men det blev også et afgørende vendepunkt i vilkårene for al fremtidig arkæologisk virke i Ægypten, og vigtigst af alt blev det begyndelsen til nedsmeltningen af det britiske verdensherredømme.
Kl. 12.15 – Frokost (medbring selv mad og drikke)
Kl. 13 – Regine Schulz, Executive Director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim
Thought on pictorial programs of Tut-ankh-Amun’s jewelry
Amulets and jewelry items with amulet functions were important in Ancient Egypt, not only in daily life but also for life after death. They mediate a variety of different religious aspects and functions.
Therefore, they also played an essential role in the richly equipped and well-preserved tomb of Tut-ankh-Amun. The objects placed on and at the mummy were especially important since they should protect the deceased king on his journey to and life after death in the heavenly sphere.
Kl. 14.15 – Pause
Kl. 14.45 – Tom Hardwick, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Tut-ankh-mammon: Howard Carter and the market for Egyptian art, 1920-1940.
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922 was not just an archaeological landmark: it was also watched closely by the art market.
Carter and Carnarvon were not just excavators, but avid collectors and canny dealers in Egyptian objects at a time when their status and values were changing. Exhibitions and auctions brought Egyptian objects to eager audiences anxious for new sensations and potential profits.
One might think the tomb of Tutankhamun would be unaffected by this boom, but even excavated objects were subject to the vagaries of the market. Tutankhamun’s “wonderful things” were assessed and priced up from the moment the tomb was opened. Archival material reveals how objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb were monetized and offered for sale during Carter’s lifetime and after his death.
Tom Hardwick is a curator and Egyptologist who has curated collections and exhibitions in the UK, Egypt, and United States. He is a specialist in Egyptian art, the history of collecting, and the forgery of works of art.