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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

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- Museum Studies, History of Collections (Archaeology), Akhmim, Egyptian Coffins

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

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 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 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

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.

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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- Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptology, Egyptian Archaeology, Religious Geography
- by B. Andelkovic
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- Egyptology, Book of the Dead, Ancient Egyptian Mummies, Akhmim