Wednesday, September 20, 5-7 PM

Location: NES Lounge, 254 Barrows Hall, Barrow Lane and Bancroft
Way, UC Bekeley.

Organizer and event contact:
Rita Lucarelli: rita.lucarelli@berkeley.edu

Each paper will be 30-minutes in length followed by 5 to 10 minutes
for questions and discussions.

5:00 Alexander Schütze (Munich University) Statues, Stelae
and Private Legal Documents: The Agency of Things in the
Petition of Peteese (P. Rylands 9)

P. Rylands 9 contains the lengthy petition of a scribe of the
temple of Amun at el-Hibe dating to the early reign of Dareios I.
The papyrus is considered as an important source for the
history, administration and society of Late Period Egypt. In
the petition, Peteese tells the story of five generations of his
family going back to the early reign of Psametik I. The
narrative is structured by several transfers of property rights
on the prebends of the high priest of Amun at el-Hibe being
the subject of the petition. In this paper, I will focus
on how actors mentioned in the petition used private legal
documents written on papyrus but also statues and stelae
to enforce their claims on these prebends. Furthermore,
I will highlight how the specific materiality of these
objects influenced the behaviour of the actors. Aim of the paper
is to illustrate the practice of documenting legal transactions
as a technique to reduce uncertainty regarding the enforcement
of legal claims in Late Period Egypt.

5.40: Mélanie Flossmann-Schȕtze (Munich University) The
Ptolemaic settlement of the Ibiotapheion at Tuna el-Gebel.
Current research of the Joint Mission of Cairo and Munich
Universities

Since 1989 the Joint Mission of the Faculty of Archaeology,
Cairo University, and the Institute of Egyptology and
Coptology, LMU Munich, has been working at the animal
necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel and its associated buildings
and institutions. Numerous sanctuaries, administrative
buildings and at least two or three settlements were
attached to the Ibiotapheion, the burial grounds for sacred
ibises and baboons. Being the largest animal cemetery in
Egypt after Saqqara, the institution of animal cult at Tuna
el-Gebel was managed by one or more religious associations.
The aim of the project presented in this paper is to
reconstruct the living environment and social life of these
specific religious associations in the Hermopolites. Their
members lived in a settlement beside the Ibiotapheion,
characterized by huge tower-houses. Research focuses on the
one hand on the material culture of the living quarters,
on the other hand textual evidence from the cemetery
and settlement allows us to elucidate many aspects of daily
life.

6.20: Andrzej Niwinski (Warsaw University) The
development of the iconographic repertoire of the
21st Dynasty coffins as new criterion for dating

The 21st Dynasty coffins have a complex iconography. A
typology of these objects was proposed 30 years ago (A.
Niwiński, 21st Dynasty Coffins from Thebes. Chronological
and Typological Studies. = THEBEN V, Mainz1988) and it
is generally still in use. This typology was based on the
formal criteria of the decoration and will be re-discussed
during this lecture. Five phases of the development of
the iconographic repertoire have been distinguished, which
follow subsequent sub-periods of the history of the
21st Dynasty, marked out by some important events
at Thebes. During this lecture it will be also discussed
how the iconographic study of coffins helps the
understanding of the phenomenon of the coffin re-use,
which is often encountered in the 21st Dynasty.