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- Textiles, Akhmim, Akhmim, Egypt

The research paper discusses the problem of distorting the body proportions in Ramses II statues during the inadequate restoration operations carried out in the 21st century in Egypt. It also discusses the correct artistic body proportions and formation of Ramses II, which must be followed when assembling and restoring statues depicting this figure, at the same time taking into consideration other, unrestored statues, reliefs and paintings of the same subject. In addition, it looks at global restoration technologies that can help to solve the problem of improper restoration in Egypt.

- by Sara A. Abdoh
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- Egyptology, Art History, Technology, Conservation

The present paper provides the first complete analysis of the CT scan of stolist-priest of Akhmim, Nesmin son of Djedhor (son of Wennefer, son of Djedhor), born to Chay-Hathor-Imw. At the time of death (350‒325 B.C.) Belgrade Nesmin (also known as the Belgrade Mummy) was between 35 and 40 years old. A proper bioanthropological study is presented. The mummification features are discussed. The distribution of funerary amulets on the mummy has been established. A densely rolled papyrus scroll (Book of the Dead, ca. 9 m long), located between the body and the outer bandages near the left upper arm, is confirmed. The mummy’s cultural biography is specified. A museum superstition phenomenon is noted.

- by B. Andelkovic
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- Egyptology, Mummy Studies, Ptolemaic Period, Book of the Dead

The aim of this article is to publish and study the stela of Nes-Hor, found at Akhmim and currently stored in the Egyptian Museum Cairo. It contains an important version of the solar hymn BD 15. The columns of texts are arranged in a unique way. In addition to translation and textual analysis, the present study provides a commentary on the content, palaeography and philology of the texts. A genealogical notice will contribute to the understanding of the community of Akhmim during the Greco-Roman Period.
یھدف ھذ المقال إلي نشر ودراسة لوحة "نس- حور" التي عثر علیھا في أخمیم وھي الآن في مخازن المتحف المصري بالتحریر. تحتوي ھذه اللوحة علي نسخة ھامة من الفصل ١٥ من كتاب الموتي وموضوعھ "ترنیمة إلي إلھ الشمس". الملفت للنظر أن أعمدتھا الكتابیة قد رتبت بطریقة فریدة. تقدم ھذه الدراسة نشرا لھذه اللوحة یتضمن قراءة وترجمة وتحلیلا وتعلیقا خطیا ولغویا علي النصوص الھیروغلیفیة٬ فضلا عن محاولة لفھم شجرة
عائلة صاحب ھذه اللوحة.

- by Ali Ali Abdel Halim
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- Religion, Egyptology, Egyptian Ritual Texts, Palaeography

The mummy and coffin of the Akhmimic stolist-priest Pa-di-heru-pa-khered have resided at the Milwaukee Public Museum since 1887 and he has been CT-scanned on several occasions, the most recent being in April 2011. The original version of this research paper is on file at the museum, and it was prepared following the 2011 scan in order to make the basic biological profile of this young Akhmimic adult available to the scholarly community. Aspects of Pa-di-heru-pa-khered's acquisition are covered and details of Ptolemaic Period mummification are discussed.

- by Jonathan Elias
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- Egyptology, Paleopathology, History of Egyptology, Ptolemaic Period
- by Marion Claude
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Art, Onomastics, Prosopography

The anthropoid wooden coffin with plinth (L. 183.5 cm), datable to the mid-4th century B.C. (30th Dynasty), names Nefer-renepet, a dancer of Min from Akhmim. This object represents one of the artistically and technically superior coffins produced by Late Period Egyptian coffin workshops. It was formerly part of the Amherst collection, and was purchased by Ernest Brummer at a Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge auction in London in 1921, then donated the same year to the National Museum in Belgrade. The interior of the lid is distinguished by a remarkable ‘gliding Nut motif with upward streaming hair’ (an extremely important iconographic element) while the interior of the trough is dominated by a line drawing of Imentet wearing a diagonally-veined maat-feather on her head. The interior decoration includes inscriptions written on the side facets. Written hastily in whitish-yellow line on a rough ground of thick black pigment (in contrast to the fine outer decoration of the coffin) these barely legible Stundenwachen texts, are nonetheless significant, and are to be identified as abbreviated texts derived from the Book of Day and Book of Night. They are a manifestation of Late Period magical symbolism stemming from New Kingdom funerary compositions. Their presence on the coffin, however hurried, was intended to ease Nefer-renepet’s passage through the netherworld. Since 1992 the coffin of Nefer-renepet is kept in the Archaeological Collection of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

- by Jonathan Elias and +1
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Ancient Egyptian Magic

In the first decade of the last century, George Reisner acquired a brilliantly-colored coffin for Phoebe A Hearst's growing anthropological collection at University of California, Berkeley (PAHMA 6-19228). Little information on the circumstances of the coffin's purchase-or of its origin-was given to the museum. However, a recent examination of the coffin's texts and iconography has shed new light on its owner, origin, and the religious thought that went into its unique iconographic program. This features the sons of horus as naked, animal-headed children, as well as a scene with Osiris standing in a thicket of trees.

- by Marion Claude
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Religious Geography

The aim of this presentation is to give an overview of the religious geography of the 9th Upper Egyptian province and more specifically of the place the sacred area of Athribis had in the local religious network. Attention will also be given to the contexts and mentions of the temple of Athribis and its deities in the other written sources stemming from the province, in order to exemplify the influence of the temple in a setting otherwise rather dominated by the temple of Akhmîm (Ipu). In reverse, the importance of the sacred area of Akhmîm, the provincial capital, in the texts of the temple of Athribis will be examined closely, so as to narrow down the relations between the two sanctuaries.

Very few instances of surgical trepanation/craniotomy are seen in the Egyptian archaeological record. The rarity of the procedure reflects the tendency among ancient Egyptian physicians (reflected in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus) to avoid operating on head injuries. Recent CT examinations of a 26th Dynasty mummy associated with the funerary specialist Djedhor, found at Akhmim around 1886, have revealed evidence of a surgical opening with substantial dimensions (53 mm A-P x 43.5 mm R-L) in the summit of his cranium . This opening is arguably one of the boldest craniotomies carried out in ancient Egypt. The earliest scan carried out on this mummy (1986) missed this feature altogether, but a second scan in 2006 detected it and resulted in a 3D-printed model of the skull which showed a lesion in the upper margin of the subject’s left orbit. This lesion is considered serious enough to have induced ancient physicians to have attempted trepanation as a means of reducing intracranial pressure for purposes of relieving the subject’s pain. The linkage of the two features is plausible. The latest CT exam (April 2011) was undertaken to provide better views of the edge of the trepanation hole to establish whether there is remodeling of the bone suggestive of healing, or whether the procedure was conducted post-mortem as part of ritual processing during mummification.

- by Jonathan Elias
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- Egyptian Archaeology, Ancient Medicine, Ancient Egyptian Magic, Saite Period

An anthropoid wooden coffin with human mummy was purchased in Luxor in February 1888 by the Serbian mécène and world traveler Pavle Riđički (1805‒1893). Due to historical, political and cultural circumstances the first studies of the mummy did not start until May 1993. The ancient ‘patient’ ‒ Nesmin, stolist-priest of Akhmim, son of Djedhor (son of Wennefer, son of Djedhor) born to Chay-Hathor-Imw/Tjay-Hathor-imw ‒ who became known as the Belgrade mummy ‒ underwent a CT scan at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology Center. The present paper provides the first complete analysis of the CT scan. At the time of death (350‒325 B.C.) Belgrade Nesmin was between 35 and 40 years old. A proper bioanthropological study is presented. The mummification features are discussed. The distribution of funerary amulets on the mummy has been established. The mummy’s cultural biography is specified. A museum superstition phenomenon is noted.

- by Jonathan Elias and +1
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptian religion, Mummy Studies

The coffin of Iwefaa in the collection of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, was purchased for the collection by George Reisner, and little information on its origins was preserved. Here, it is demonstrated that the coffin can be stylistically placed in a well-known group of coffins from Akhmim, dating from the Kushite and Saite Periods. Iwefaa's coffin has several unique features which set it apart from other members of this group. One of these is the inscription, in the small area between vignettes on the top of the foot, of highly abbreviated excerpts from two spells from the Book of the Dead: Spell 91, and Spell 89. This paper translates these spells. It also compares them to more complete editions on other coffins on the premise that the editing choices give insight into which aspects of the spell the scribe held to be most important.

- by Ali Ali Abdel Halim
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- Religion, Egyptology, Epigraphy, Egyptian Hieroglyphs

- by Sara A. Abdoh
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- Egyptology, Art History, Technology, Conservation

The anthropoid wooden coffin with plinth (L. 183.5 cm), datable to the mid–4th century B.C. (30th Dynasty), names Nefer-renepet, a dancer of Min from Akhmim. This object represents one of the artistically and technically superior coffins produced by Late Period Egyptian coffin workshops. It was formerly part of the Amherst collection, and was purchased by Ernest Brummer at a Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge auction in London in 1921, then donated the same year to the National Museum in Belgrade. The interior of the lid is distinguished by a remarkable ‘gliding Nut motif with upward streaming hair’ (an extremely important iconographic element) while the interior of the trough is dominated by a line drawing of Imentet wearing a diagonallyveined maat-feather on her head. The interior decoration includes inscriptions written on the side facets. Written hastily in whitish-yellow line on a rough ground of thick black pigment (in contrast to the fine outer decoration of the coffin) these barely ...

- by Jonathan Elias
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Art, Ancient Egyptian Iconography

This paper aims at presenting my current post-doctoral research project. In the last centuries of the pharaonic period in Egypt, Akhmim was a very important city and its temple of Min, Horus and Isis was one of the largest sacred areas of the country. Unfortunately, the history of this sanctuary and its priests is not very well-known, mostly because the many objects belonging to the priests that were found during excavations at the end of the 19th Century are now dispersed throughout the world. As a part of my doctoral thesis, I endeavoured to gather many of these objects in order to study the temples, divinities and priestly titles of the city. But the funerary material of the priests also allows for a reconstruction of the families and a prosopographical study of the priests through an analysis of their career, the inheritance of their titles from father to son and mother to daughter, their matrimonial strategies and so on. In this paper I will give you an overview of the results of this study and highlight the importance of prosopographical research for the field of Egyptology and the knowledge of the Egyptian society.

- by Marion Claude
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- Prosopography, Akhmim, Ancient Egyptian Prosopography

Séminaire donné le 22 octobre 2015. 7e séance des séminaires Antheia (ED1). Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4).

7e journée des jeunes chercheurs du Labex Hastec, 16 avril 2019

9e Journée Egypte gréco romaine 26 avril 2019

The authors present a new publication of Tamin’s coffin from the collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article provides a detailed discussion of the coffin’s provenance.... more

- by A. A. Krol
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- Coffins, Ptolemaic Period, Akhmim, Offering List

Andelkovic B. and Teeter E. 2005

- by B. Andelkovic
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- Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptian mummies, Akhmim
- by Jonathan Elias
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- Archaeology, Art, Museum Studies, Egyptian Art and Archaeology
- by Rafed El-Sayed
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- Egyptian Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Ceramics (Archaeology), Akhmim
- by Jonathan Elias
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptian Archaeology, Mummy Studies, Ptolemaic Egypt
- by Alexandra Küffer
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- Art, Museum Studies, History of Collections (Archaeology), Collection

ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to study the stela of Nes-Hor, found at Akhmim and currently stored in the Egyptian Museum Cairo. It contains an important version of BD 15 (solar hymn). Its columns are arranged in a unique way. In addition to translation and analysis, the present study provides a commentary on the content, palaeography and philology of the texts. A genealogical notice will contribute in understanding the community of Akhmim in Greco-Roman Period.

- by Ali Ali Abdel Halim
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- Religion, Genealogy, Titles, Book of the Dead

Paper presented at the Second Vatican Coffin Conference, June 6-9, 2017

- by Tamás Mekis and +1
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- History of Collections, Book of the Dead, Offering tables, Priesthood

Le Musée d'Yverdon et région abrite une collection d'antiquités égyptiennes comprenant la momie du prêtre Nes-Shou et son trousseau funéraire. Cet ensemble funéraire de l'Egypte antique - le plus complet conservé en Suisse - a récemment... more

- by Alexandra Küffer
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- Museum Studies, History of Collections (Archaeology), Akhmim, Egyptian Coffins
- by Luigi Prada
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- Egyptology, Museum Studies, History of Museums, Demotic
- by Maximilien Durand
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- Coptic Studies, Coptic textiles, Coptic (Archaeology), Textiles (Art History)

The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment – an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun’s disc, and its form is planar, although it occasionally has a concave shape (in such cases, it protects the head as a funerary cap). The earliest known example can be dated to the 4th century BC and the latest to the 2nd/1st century BC. The Hypocephalus: an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet analyses both the written records and iconography of these objects. So far, 158 examples are known; several, unfortunately, from old descriptions only. The relatively low number shows that the object was not a widespread item of funerary equipment. Only priest and priestly families used them, those of Amon in Thebes, of Min in Akhmim, and the ones of Ptah in Memphis. Among the examples, no two are identical. In some details, every piece is an individualized creation. Ancient Egyptian theologians certainly interpreted hypocephali as the iris of the wedjat-eye, amidst which travels the sun-god in his hidden, mysterious and tremendous form(s). The hypocephalus can be considered as the sun-disk itself. It radiates light and energy towards the head of the deceased, who again becomes a living being, feeling him/herself as ‘one with the Earth’ through this energy. The texts and the iconography derive principally from the supplementary chapters of the Book of the Dead. Some discs directly cite the text of spell 162 which furnishes the mythological background of the invention of the disc by the Great Cow, who protected her son Re by creating the disc at his death.

‘THE TEXTILE CENTRE AKHMÎM-PANOPOLIS (EGYPT) IN LATE ANTIQUITY.
MATERIAL EVIDENCE FOR CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SOCIETY, RELIGION, INDUSTRY AND TRADE’ - International Workshop, organised by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie and Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – SPK,
28th – 30th September 2017

This article deals with a set of wooden chests uncovered in the necropolis of Akhmim at the end of the 19th century and now kept in the Egyptian Museum and the Agricultural Museum in Cairo. They were interpreted as coffins belonging to mummified falcons. The study of these objects and their decoration shows that they played a role in the cult of the sacred falcons, whether living or dead. One of these chests displaying hieroglyphic inscriptions identifies the falcon with the god “Haroeris lord of Letopolis”, who was worshipped during the Roman period in the city of Edfa near Akhmim.

- by Anaïs Tillier
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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Egyptian religion, Akhmim
- by Tamás Mekis
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- Thebes, Akhmim, Ptolemaic Prosopography, Funerary equipment
- by Maximilien Durand
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- Coptic Studies, Coptic textiles, Coptic (Archaeology), Textiles (Art History)
- by Maximilien Durand
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- Coptic Studies, Coptic textiles, Coptic (Archaeology), Textiles (Art History)