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.
Generalforsamling og astrologiske manualer fra tempelbiblioteket i Tebtunis
Loftdekoration fra Senmuts grav (Neugebauer og Parker 1969, Egyptian Astronomical Texts III, pl. 1)
Mødedato: tirsdag d. 18.01 2022 kl. 18.00 – Lokale 22.0.11
Først generalforsamling fulgt af foredrag ca. kl. 19.
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Astrologiske manualer fra tempelbiblioteket i Tebtunis, v. Ida Adsbøl Christensen, PhD Student at ISAW, New York University
Astrologi og andre former for varselstagning var særdeles populært i det græsk-romerske Ægypten, hvor det lader til at have spillet en vigtig rolle i mange ægyptiske templer. Et stort antal astrologiske papyri skrevet på græsk og demotisk har overlevet frem til i dag, men kun en brøkdel af især det ægyptiske materiale er endnu blevet studeret.
Tempelbiblioteket i Tebtunis indeholder mere end 50 manualer i astrologisk praksis, dvs. teoretiske tekster, der angiver og forklarer, hvordan forskellige himmellegemers positioner bør fortolkes. Disse manuskripter repræsenterer den suverænt største gruppe af videnskabelig litteratur i tempelbiblioteket. I nutiden bliver astrologi som oftest anset for at være pseudovidenskab, men denne praksis udgjorde en yderst central form for videnskab blandt mange oldtidskulturer i Mellemøsten og Middelhavsområdet.
De astrologiske manualer fra Tebtunis er endnu upublicerede, men igangværende studier af materialet har vist, at håndbøgerne bl.a. indeholder instruktioner til udarbejdelsen af horoskoper og detaljerede beskrivelser af astrologiske fænomener og deres betydninger for menneskelige skæbner. Dette foredrag giver et overblik over disse emner med udgangspunkt i en gruppe astrologiske manualer fra Tebtunis, der hver især giver forskellige indblik i, hvordan oldtidens ægyptere forsøgte at tilegne sig viden om, hvad fremtiden ville bringe.
Lockande långt borta – Oasen Siwa genom historien
Siwa
Mødedato: Torsdag 3.3 2022 kl. 19.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
og på zoom. Link findes i nyhedsmailen.
Lockande långt borta – Oasen Siwa genom historien, v. Sofia Häggman, Museumsinspektør, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Sofia er desværre forhindret i at komme til København, men Tine vil sætte storskærm op på KUA, så I kan se foredraget sammen. Men I kan altså også se det hjemmefra via zoom-linket i nyhedsmailen.
I dag är Siwa en ganska isolerad och bortglömd oas, långt ute i Egyptens västra öken. Men under antiken var oasen känd i hela den grekiska Medelhavsvärlden. Den var säte för guden Zeus-Ammons orakel och lockade besökare från när och fjärran. Alexander den store själv besökte orakeltemplen i Siwa, när han erövrade Egypten. Men vad hände sedan? Och vad händer i Siwa idag?
Sofia Häggman har sedan 1995 periodvis bott i Siwa, där hon arbetat med både dadelodling och museiprojekt. Hon kommer i sitt föredrag att berätta om Siwa under antiken, men även också i senare tidsperioder
Champollion og 1500 års hieroglyfstudier
Champollion
Mødedato: Torsdag 31.3 2022 kl. 19.00
Lokale: KUA – 23.0.49
Champollion og 1500 års hieroglyfstudier, v. Lektor Emeritus Paul John Frandsen
For præcis 200 år siden blev hieroglyfskriften endelig dechifreret. Forud for denne bedrift var der gået 1500 år med undertiden intense forsøg på at forstå ægypternes skrift. Foredraget handler om hvorfor man i Antikken, Renæssancen og Oplysningstidens i det hele taget interesserede sig for denne skrift og hvordan man greb studierne af den an. Og så handler det naturligvis også om fundet af Rosettestenen, der blev nøglen til dechifreringen, som Champollion med rette fik æren af.
Til foredraget vil der være mulighed for at drikke et glas vin.
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.
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.
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.