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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> The History Blog is a terrific place. They
> routinely have interesting stories, and there's no
> shortage of pixels for photos.
>
> I believe a Hounds & Jackals set was found
> with Tut, but I don't recall any mention of
> dice/counters.
Murray Nuttall Handbook of Tutankha
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Some years ago I wrote an article on this subject, and the main conclusions were this:
a) Slavery usually applied to captives of war or servants by in debenture, but their rights were protected by law, and they were released from servitude after a specific period of time (as determined usually by the king/government/custom);
b) Part of these rights were for slaves to marry as they choose, t
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Rick:
As per your frustration:
Grajetzki, W. 2005. Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary. London: Golden House Publications.
HTH.
Regards,
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Nonpseudo Wrote:
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> Does anybody happen to know which Egyptian myths
> are dated to the reign of Akhenaten or thereafter
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It is thought that the "Myth of the Heavenly Cow," which describes the reasons for the imperfect state of the world in terms of humankind's rebellion against the supreme sun god Ra, which forms
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Interestingly it has a painted bead-net shroud.
> We're discussing these in a different thread right
> now. I haven't located any of these bead-net
> garments in anything other than a funerary site.
> Is it possible they were only used for funeral
> rituals and never meant to be worn?
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Shamanism is only briefly hinted at by certain Egyptological works:
Helck, W. 1984. Schamane und Zauberer. In I. d'Égyptologie, Ed., Mélanges Adolphe Gutbub: 103-8. Montpellier: Publication de la Recherche - Université de Montpellier.
Neureiter, S.2005. Schamanismus in Alten Ägypten. SAK 33: 281-330.
Ritner, R. K. 1993. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studie
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
L Cooper Wrote:
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> I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a
> translation. It is on p. 106 of Mariette's
> Mastabas (B 13 - tomb of Beb-ib?) and it's the
> short sequence just below and to the left of the
> number "520" there.
>
> To me it looks like it is saying something like,
&g
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Pacal Wrote:
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> I would also think that that one of the reasons
> right is favoured over left is because most people
> are right-handed.
This is Lakoff's and Needhams' general theory of values attached to direction, body orientation, etc. How orientation is used by the ancient Egyptians, however3e, does not always fo
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
As an Egyptian friend once told me, "With enough money, you can always buy the justice you want."
Probably much to do with the result here.
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Pistol Wrote:
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> Hi Katherine,
>
> my understanding is the menat originates in
> Hathor's depiction as a cow in repose, the menat
> 'handle' is always depicted atop the back of the
> cow's neck.
The menat is shown in just about every context, but it always concerns the goddess Hathor.
It is h
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
L Cooper Wrote:
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> On page 233 of Budge's "Osiris and the Egyptian
> Resurrection" is a reproduction showing Thutmose
> III paying homage to the goddess Hathor.
>
> I have two questions regarding this image: First,
> can anyone tell me where the original of this
> depiction is from? As best I ca
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> > (in RE: My MA Thesis)
> > Odd: I should think the UCL thesis website
> should have it, but it doesn't.
> >
> > Let me see what I can do.
>
> You might upload a PDF here -
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
L Cooper Wrote:
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> Katherine - is your M.A. Dissertation available
> online in some way? I don't find it, nor does it
> seem to be available through Ethos. I would be
> very interested to read it.
Odd: I should think the UCL thesis website should have it, but it doesn't.
Let me see what I can do.
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
To me, Sethe's comments about west and east being a product of designating areas of the Nile Delta make a great deal of sense.
Unlike the middle and southern sections of Egypt which are strictly verdant (Black land) and arid (Red land) within a mile or so of each other, the Delta's verdant triangle stretches out for miles on either side of the main Nile river - extensive enough to
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Northampton Council Sekhemka statue 'now in US'
Quote: "Last week BBC News revealed how the council, which made £8m from the sale, had been warned by lawyers not to sell it for "financial motives".
A real travesty.
My
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Try:
Abd el Moneim, M. A. M. 2000. Knobbed bowls of the late Predynastic - Early Dynastic Period. In K. Kroeper, L. Krzyaniak, and M. Kobusiewicz (eds), Recent research into the Stone Age of Northeastern Africa: 149-157. Poznán: Poznán Archaeological Museum.
Allen, R. O., M. S. Rogers, R. S. Mitchell, and M. A. Hoffman 1982. A geochemical approach to the understanding of ceramic technology
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> Another article
>
>
>
> (Won't work if you have an ad-blocker)
Knew that was going to happen once Rupert Murdoch took over NG. I refuse to lower my ad blocker, so I will have to put up with the quoted sections on EEF.
My
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
On another note, Reeves' theory about the gold mask of Tutankhamun being reused from Nefertiti is also questioned:
"(..) Dr. Reeves believes that Tutankhamun's famous gold mask was actually made for another pharaoh—and a female one at that.
However Christian Eckmann, the German expert brought in to repair the mask's damaged beard, refutes it. He has probably examined the m
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Byrd Wrote:
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> Temples were an echo of the Egyptians' idea of the
> cosmos and were aligned on an east-west grid
> (following the path of the sun.)
>
> A discussion of this can be found here beginning
> on page 148:
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True, but temples are rarified structures, separate in their meaning and orientation
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
As far as I am aware, the use of star orientation was not a settled featured of city planning. One has to recall that settlements of humans probably took place before elaborate formation of ideas about the stars/sun/etc. This would make sense as a nomadic group slowly became more a pastoral group, leading to urban dwelling, where necessity was more a feature that strictly religious or orientation
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Folks, rather than speculate, shall we just wait?
Until all work is done, simply going on and on about it is just useless.
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> One can only hope that, wherever it ends up, it's
> kept safely, and that people are able to see and
> admire it.
Probably not, as today's updated story indicates the statue was actually purchased by an American owner (not Qatari, as previously reported).
This whole situation, as you can see, has
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian statue sold by Northampton Borough Council granted export licence
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The issue of an export licence to the anonymous overseas owner was deferred several times by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
As neither group could find a buyer, an export licence is now to be granted.
"After a year under export deferral, no buyer has come forward to purchase the
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Dr Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> > Yes and in this case the light of science in
> fact
> > shows there is nothing behind that wall.
> > At the same time the light is showing that
> > Nefertiti is in fact in the Cairo Museu
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Is it just me or does she look a lot like her
> husband?
It was a fairly common practice in the Old Kingdom for couples to "resemble" one another, using the male's features to carry over to the spouse. One can also see the same "resemblance" with the statues of Menekare and his que
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Frankly I don't believe for one moment that
> Britain would ever see the statue again once it
> was safe in Cairo, do you? It would be a pity if
> it disappeared into a private collection. I wonder
> who bought it?
>
The BBC indicates the buyer was a businessman living in Qatar. That
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
UPDATE:
Egyptian ambassador proposes plan to share Sekhemka
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The Egyptian embassy is prepared legally to own the sculpture and lend it for equal periods to the British Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The proposal would represent an unprecedented compromise between two nations that want to display the same antiquity. Sekhemka is arguably the finest piece of non-royal sculpt
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
The old saw about the finding of a papyrus that "...would reveal to the world the other side of the Exodus story" was in fact a publicity stunt, as mentioned by Carter's lecture manager named (as I recall) Kendall.
Carter would rail on in his American lectures about his find and need for funds to complete the excavation, and the story of his appeals to the British embassy offici
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Principia Wrote:
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> Quick question: Do the plates in these volumes
> have high enough resolution to easily make out the
> glyphs?
>
> For example, the ceilings of Seti and Ramses IV
> & VI?
Here's a scan of the Ramses IV image from EAT/I, Plate 35, from my copy from Yare Egyptology:
I think you can
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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Ancient Egypt
Byrd Wrote:
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> Mafdet IS the name of a feline-headed goddess who
> is a major deity in the minor deities category (in
> our modern interpretation -- we tend to focus on
> "deities we know about" and she's not one of the
> major ones mentioned when anyone brings up Egypt.)
> Some modern interpretations
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Katherine Griffis-Greenberg
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