Scribbling Through History Ragazzoli, Chloé; Harmansah, Ömür; Salvador, Chiara ...
2018, 2018-05-31
eBook
For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th ...century and has been embraced by modern street culture: graffiti have been left on natural sites and public monuments for tens of thousands of years. They mark a position in time, a relation to space, and a territorial claim. They are also material displays of individual identity and social interaction. As an effective, socially accepted medium of self-definition, ancient graffiti may be compared to the modern use of social networks. This book shows that graffiti, a very ancient practice long hidden behind modern disapproval and street culture, have been integral to literacy and self-expression throughout history.
This article is the publication of Ashmolean Museum AN 1888.561, a small, damaged limestone object carved with images of deities and texts relating to the Nineteenth Dynasty high priest of Onuris, ...Minmose. These features, as well as the object’s distinctive form, are described, and a brief commentary is given for the texts. It is suggested that the object might be a votive Isis-throne.
هذه الورقة عبارة عن نشر للقطعة الموجودة في المتحف الأشمولي والتي تحمل الرقم AN1888.561 وهي عبارة عن قعطة متآكلة من الحجر الجيري منحوتة عليها تصاوير للآلهة ونقوش تعود الى رئيس كهنة أورنوريس، والذي يعرف بإسم مينموس ويعود الى عهد الأسرة التاسعة عشر. تم وصف ملامح هذه القطعة وشكلها المميز بالإضافة الى شرح مقتضب للنصوص. ومن المقترح ان هذه القطعة هي نذر لعرش إيزيس.
Egypt and Sudan Elizabeth Frood
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization,
03/2013
Book Chapter
This chapter considers the archaeological material held by the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) from Egypt and Sudan that dates from the beginning of the Old Kingdom (Fourth Dynasty, from c. 2575 BCE) to the ...end of the Late Period (i.e. to Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt, 332 BCE). These collections have been largely unstudied, therefore quantifying their extent is particularly difficult. However, we can estimate that the Museum holds c. 12,413 archaeological objects from Egypt and Sudan (some of which were historically recorded on the PRM database as from Nubia)¹ that date from this timeframe. This material includes, in
Re-publication of a statue fragment from Abydos, now in The Manchester Museum, including the first photographs of the object and new translations of its biographical inscriptions. The statue displays ...an otherwise unattested combination of iconographie features, including a possible representation of an jmjwt against one shoulder.
Edition of British Museum stela EA 1199, which preserves a biography of Nebwawy, High Priest of Osiris in the reign of Thutmose III, with a new facsimile, translation, commentary, and discussion. ...Translations and commentaries are also provided for two other stelae attributed to Nebwawy now held in the Cairo Museum, one of which also bears a biographical text (CG 34018). The discussion centres on the treatment of time-frames and assesses the function of these in relation to priestly function and career in this life, as well as provision for the next world. EA 1199 provides perhaps the only narration of a role in the Osiris mysteries known from the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Elite self-presentation through the biographical genre is a defining element of ancient Egyptian high culture from the Old Kingdom until the Roman period. My thesis centres on the biographical texts ...produced during the Ramessid period (c. 1280-1070 BCE), a time of significant change in elite domains of representation. Since biography has not been seen as a significant genre of this period, these texts, which are inscribed on statues, stelae, temple walls, and in tombs, have not been gathered together or studied as a corpus. Yet they are a key to exploring the diverse and highly individual ways in which a self could be fashioned and presented. I take a holistic approach to the interpretation of these texts, in order to examine the ways in which they were incorporated into their spatial and visual settings and could extend beyond them. My introduction sets out my aims and the broader anthropological framework which I apply to the Egyptian sources. The following four chapters are case-studies. Chapters two to four are organised according to site (Thebes and el-Mashayikh, Karnak, and Abydos), comparing strategies of self-presentation in tomb and temple contexts. The fourth is thematically oriented, and looks at the image and role of the king in non-royal biographies. In the final chapter, I draw together the results of my individual case-studies, discussing their common textual themes, the interplays of traditional and innovative motifs within them, as well as the implications of their diverse monumental contexts. I hope to demonstrate that the holistic approach I apply is relevant for the study of monumental discourse in other periods in Egyptian history and has the potential to locate the Egyptian material within broader frameworks for the study of premodern societies.
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