scholarly journals Two Egyptian Heart-Scarabs from Sicily and a Parallel from Berlin

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Laroche ◽  
Gloria Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Rare Variant ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
The City ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Two Egyptian heart-scarabs, both connected to the city of Cefalù, are presented here: the first one, at Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, was published in 1942 by E. Bacchi, as one of the few heart-scarabs found outside Egypt, on the rock of Cefalù. Its text has been checked and some new readings are proposed. Inscribed for a Chantress of Bastet, it shows a peculiar decoration on the first register, looking like a lunette, then the traditional beginning of Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, typical for heart-scarabs, combined with a rare variant. It had remained a unicum until July 2020, when a parallel in the Berlin Museum came to our knowledge, and this is published here as well: the same decoration in the first register and the same text, although shorter. Mainly on the base of prosopographical data, a date to the Twenty-second Dynasty seems appropriate for the Berlin scarab, and consequently for the one in Palermo, which could even belong to a member of the same family. The owner of the scarab in Berlin shows a set of priestly titles that are typical of Per-Sopdu/Saft el-Henna, which therefore may be an indication of its origin. The second “Sicilian” scarab, held at Cefalù itself in the collection of Enrico Pirajno Baron of Mandralisca, after whom the Museum is named, is unpublished. Its owner was another Chantress, serving Amun-Re, and nearly contemporary: it is to be dated to the early Third Intermediate Period, Twenty-first – Twenty-second Dynasty. In the Appendix at the end, notes and remarks on the provenance of the two scarabs in Sicily, documenting mainly the discovery of the Palermo scarab. ملخص تظهر هنا قطعتان تمائم جعران القلب المصرية، ترتبط كلاهما بمدينة تشِفالو: القطعة الأولى، معروضة في المتحف الأثري الإقليمي في مدينة باليرمو، نُشِر عنها في عام 1942 من قبل إ. باكي كاحدى جعران القلب الفرعونية النادرة التي وُجدت خارج الأراضي المصرية. تَحدّث المؤلفون عن ظروف اكتشافها، تحققوا مرة أخرى من النص واقترحوا بعض القراءات الجديدة. كانت تملكها مطربة باستيت، وهو لقب لم يتم تناوله  ضمن المنشورات الحالية لمجموعة جعران القلب. إنها على غرار جعران القلب التي لم ينشر عنها ومحفوظة في برلين، من المدهش أنها تنتمي على الأرجح إلى شخص من نفس أفراد تلك العائلة، تعود غالباً إلى تاريخ الأسرة الثانية والعشرين. كانت تنتمي جعران برلين إلى والد الإله أنوبيس وإلى الكاهن بتاح-ون، وهو لقب خاص لبير-سوبدو / سفت-الحنا. تميمة جعران القلب الثانية الموجودة في جزيرة صقلية، محفوظة في نفس موقع تشِفالو، في متحف ماندراليسكا، لم يُنشر عنها أي مقال: مرة أخرى شاءت الظروف أن تكون مالكتها مغنية، لكنها كانت  تخدم آمون رع. تعود القطعة أيضاً إلى أوائل فترة الإنتقال الثالثة. 

scholarly journals Die Mumienbinde des Monthemhat (Turin Cat. 1873.2) – Ein weiterer Beleg für die Zusatzkapitel 173 und 174

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Töpfer
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Funerary Texts ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The mummy bandage of Monthemhat, son of Nestanetjeretten, carries Book of the Dead Spell 133 and parts of two funerary spells which were added to the corpus of Book of the Dead spells after the Third Intermediate Period. Since Supplementary Chapters 174 and 173 – according to Pleyte's numbering – are (so far) attested only on papyrus Leiden T 31, this mummy bandage must be regarded as a unique example of those compositions. The aim of the article is to make the texts on the bandage available in transliteration, translation and commentary in order to provide a basis for future Egyptological discussion about the contextualization of these supplementary chapters. It is most likely that the Pleyte spells 173 and 174 were not originally intended to be part of the Book of the Dead; rather, they must have originated as Osirian liturgies and were added into the corpus of funerary texts at a later date. The owner of the mummy bandage, named Monthemhat, seems to be identical with a member of a family of Theban priests attested from the Ptolemaic till the early Roman Period on the evidence of numerous funerary papyri and temple graffiti. According to the known genealogy of that family, Monthemhat lived in the 2nd half of the 1st cent. BC and/or the early 1st cent. AD. The Turin mummy bandage Cat. 1873.2 may thus well be the latest known attestation of Book of the Dead spells on textiles. ملخص البحث: لفائف مومياء منتو-م-حات، ابن نس-تا-نتشرت-تن، تحمل التعويذة (133) وأجزاء من إثنين من التعاويذ الجنائزية التى أضيفت كمدونة (كمجموعة) لتعاويذ كتاب الموتى بعد عصر الإنتقال الثالث. بما أن الفصول التكميلية أرقام (173 ، 174 ) تم توثيقها فقط وفقاً لترقيم بلينى على بردية ليدن ( T 31 )، يجب إعتبار لفائف هذة المومياء كمثال فريد لهذة التكوينات. فالهدف من هذا المقال هو جعل النصوص الموجودة على اللفافة متاحة كتابةً وترجمةً وتعليقاً وذلك من أجل توفير أساس لمناقشات علم المصريات فى المستقبل فى سياق هذة الفصول التكميلية. كما أنه من الواضح أن تعاويذ بلينى أرقام (173 ، 174 ) لم يكن القصد منها فى الأساس أن تكون جزءاً من كتاب الموتى بل بدلاً من ذلك نشأت كطقوس دينية أوزورية وأضيفت لأصول هذه النصوص الجنائزية فى وقت لاحق. ويبدو أن صاحب لفائف المومياء متشابه لعضو من أعضاء عائلة كهنة طيبة والتى أستمرت من العصر البطلمى وحتى الفترة المبكرة من العصر الرومانى كدليل على العديد من البرديات الجنائزية ونقوش المعابد. وطبقاً لعلم الإنساب المعروف لهذه العائلة فإن منتو-م-حات قد عاش فى النصف الثانى من القرن الأول قبل الميلاد أو فى أوائل القرن الأول الميلادى. لفائف مومياء تورين والتى تحمل رقم كتالوج Cat. 1873.2 ربما أنها أحدث إثبات معروف لنصوص كتاب الموتى مكتوبة على النسيج.

scholarly journals It Looks Like a Hypocephalus, but It Is Not: Some Extraordinary Papyrus Fragments in the Museo Egizio (Provv. 6133)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Katrin Gill
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Text ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Dead ◽  
First Time ◽  
Book Of The Dead

This paper publishes for the first time and discusses a fragmentary papyrus in the Museo Egizio in Turin (Provv. 6133). It provides the repositioning of the fragments, a transliteration and translation of the text, and a commentary. It also provides some evidence that the original layout of the text on the papyrus was oval, with inscriptions from Book of the Dead spells and depictions of the so-called “entourage of Osiris” that are mainly known in this sequence from coffins and/or sarcophagi of the Late and Ptolemaic Period. ملخص البحث: تُنشر وتناقش هذه الدراسة لأول مرة بردية ممزقة من المتحف المصري بتورينو (Provv. 6133). كما توفر إعادة تجميع أجزاء البردية، وترجمتها ونقلها حرفيًا، والتعليق عليها. كما تقدم بعض الأدلة على أن تصميم النص الأصلي الموجود بالبردية كان بيضاويًا، يحتوي على نقوش من كتاب الموتى وصور لما يسمى بـ "حاشية إله الموتى (أوزوريس)" التي عرفت بشكل أساسى في هذا السياق من خلال توابيت وأكفان العصر المتأخر الفرعوني والعصر البطلمي.

scholarly journals Two Titles for the Book of the Dead (P. Turin Cat. 1828/1–2)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Text ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

Publication of two hieratic titles for the Book of the Dead appended to two complete New Kingdom papyri inscribed with extracts of BD 78 (P. Turin Cat. 1828/2) and BD 125 (P. Turin Cat. 1828/1), respectively. The author argues that the titles are not contemporary with the two papyri and that the manuscripts were made from a longer roll that was appropriated at a later date and cut into two or more sections. ملخص البحث: ينشر المقال عنوانين باللغة الهيراطيقية لـ "كتاب الموتى" ملحقان ببرديتين كاملتين من برديات عصر الدولة الحديثة نقش عليهما مقتطفات من الفصل 78 من كتاب الموتى "(بردية رقم 1828/2 المتحف المصري في تورينو) "(P. Turin Cat. 1828/2)، ومن الفصل 125 من كتاب الموتى "(بردية رقم 1828/ 1 المتحف المصري في تورينو "(P. Turin Cat. 1828/1) (، على التوالي. يقول المؤلف بأن العناوين ليست معاصرة للبرديتين وبأن المخطوطات تم صنعها من لفائف طويلة تم الإستيلاء عليها في وقت لاحق وتجزئتها إلى جزأين أو أكثر.

Egyptian Manuscripts in the Wellcome Collection

1994 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
S. G. J. Quirke ◽  
W. J. Tait
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Publication of Wellcome Egyptian Manuscripts 2 to 10: part of a late Ramesside letter; a Third Intermediate Period Amduat papyrus including Hours 1 to 3; a Ptolemaic Book of the Dead in hieratic; the Demotic Bryce Papyrus; a Coptic homily on the Three Holy Children; two frames of Coptic fragments; and three modern liturgical books in Coptic. A note is included on Wellcome Egyptian Manuscript 1, fragments from hieratic prescriptions of the New Kingdom.

Prediction of solid waste generation and finding the sustainable pathways in the city of Dhaka

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1587-1601
Author(s):  
Md. Sazol Ahmmed ◽  
Md. Faisal Arif ◽  
Md. Mosharraf Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Hidden Layer ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

PurposeSolid waste (SW) is the result of rapid urbanization and industrialization, and is increasing day by day by the increasing number of population. This thesis paper emphasizes on the prediction of SW generation in the city of Dhaka and finding sustainable pathways for minimizing the gaps in the existing system.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the survey of different questionnaires of the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) was conducted. The data of SW generation, for few years of each month, in the city of Dhaka were collected to develop a model named Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The ANN model was used for the accurate prediction of SW generation.FindingsAt first, by using the ANN model with the one hidden layer and changing the number of neurons of the layer different models were created and tested. Finally, according to R values (training, test, all) the structure with six neurons in the hidden layer was selected as the suitable model. Finally, six gaps were found in the existing system of solid waste management (SWM) in the DSCC. These gaps are the main barrier for the better SWM.Originality/valueThe authors propose that the best model for prediction is 12-6-3, and its training and testing results are given as 0.9972 and 0.80380, respectively. So the resulting prediction is so much close in comparison with actual data. In this paper, the opportunities of those gaps are provided for working properly and the DSCC will find the better result in the aspect of SW problem.

scholarly journals Death and the city

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Cvijanović
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Personal Loss ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The author argues that the politicization of life discussed by many modern and contemporary political thinkers cannot be treated differently, and hence without the similar curiosity and importance, from the politicization of death. The dead body represents a powerful symbol and as such it is often politicized. The paper deals with the problem of postmortem violence and juridico-political mechanisms aimed at excluding from the political body those not being alive but whose dead presence threats the living. For that purposes the author reconstructs Sophocles’ Antigone as a paradigmatic text whose reinterpretation and contextualization serve for rethinking the Greek conceptualization of the dead, and the ways in which the state penetrates into the realm of private attachments and funeral rites, especially when dealing with dead traitors/terrorists. Assuming an equal ontological status of every dead body, the author, on the one hand, defends mortalist humanism as an equal ability to grieve someone’s personal loss against the state-sanctioned politics of mourning, and on the other hand, argues that subjecting the dead to bare death, i.e. by turning them to political corpses as legally constituted dead human entities disposed to postmortem political exclusion, degradation, violence, or to other dehumanizing or depersonalizing practices, accounts for the illegitimate expansion of political power, and thus for the rule of terror, as well as for the ultimate human evil.

Compositional Format and Spell Sequencing in Early Versions of the Book of the Dead

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 19-53
Author(s):  
Peter Dorman
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Book Of The Dead

Recent studies of the early development of the Book of the Dead have tended to focus on the content of this group of spells, the objects on which the spells are written, the sequences in which they occur, and their early prototypes, which appear on Middle Kingdom coffins. The physical presentation of the first texts that can be described as fully in the Book of the Dead tradition, however, illustrates how scribes addressed the challenges of transmission of this mortuary corpus hand in hand with the evolution of novel burial practices in the Theban region beginning in the late Second Intermediate period, including the introduction of anthropomorphic coffins, linen shrouds, and papyrus rolls. Both hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic scripts were employed on these media, along with compositional formats suitable to them, as well as the appearance of scribal sketches that evolved into the vignettes for which the quintessential New Kingdom Books of the Dead are justly renowned. An “Ahmoside” sequencing tradition prior to the co-rule of Hatshepsut/Thutmose III is further defined, and the codicil to BD 72 is examined for its relation to the use of linen versus papyrus in Theban burials of the period.

scholarly journals "Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths": A New International Project on Coptic Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Buzi ◽  
Julian Bogdani ◽  
Nathan Carlig ◽  
Maria Chiara Giorda ◽  
Agostino Soldati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Catalogue ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

The purpose of the new project presented in these pages is to offer an innovative approach to the study of the evolution of Coptic literature and, more specifically, to the corpus of writings produced in Egypt between the third and the late eleventh centuries, and expressed in the different dialects of the Coptic language. Its aim is to provide a new perspective on the cultural landscape of Christian Egypt by interweaving literary, historical, codicological and archaeological data, and producing a series of scholarly tools, till now unavailable, in a digital environment, including an archaeological Atlas of late antique and early mediaeval Coptic literature that will be searchable at different chronological, regional and thematic levels. As part of the above-described research activities and goals, a complete catalogue of the Coptic papyrus codices preserved in the Museo Egizio will be produced, as well as an edition of their titles and scribal subscriptions. The fragmentary codices in question, purchased in Egypt by Bernardino Drovetti in the 1820s, are a unique example of an entire well-preserved late antique institutional library – very likely originally belonging to the cathedral of This/Thinis – reflecting the literary tastes and dogmatic orientations before what can be defined as the ninth-century Coptic book revolution, which significantly changed bookmaking in Christian Egypt. The library of Thi(ni)s is a crucial and transitional instance in the history of Coptic books, which saw on the one hand the creation of new codicological and palaeographical features and on the other the progressive emergence of multiple-text codices. ملخص البحث: الغرض من الدراسة الجديدة التى يتم عرضها فى هذا البحث هو تقديم نهج مبتكراً لدراسة تطور الآدب القبطى، وبشكل أكثر تحديداً إلى مجموعة الكتابات المنتجة فى مصر بين القرن الثالث حتى نهاية القرن الحادى عشر والتى تم التعبير عنها فى لهجات مختلفة للغة القبطية. هدفها هو توفير منظور جديد للمشهد الثقافى فى مصر المسيحية من خلال تداخل البيانات الأدبية والتاريخية والآثرية والكوديكولوجية (دراسة الكتب القديمة)، وإنتاج سلسة من الأدوات العلمية حتى الآن غير متوفرة فى بيئة رقمية من خلال أطلس آثرى لأدب أواخر العصور القديمة والأدب القبطى من العصور الوسطى، والقابلة للبحث علي مختلف المستويات الزمنية والإقليمية والموضوعية. وكجزء من الأنشطة والأهداف البحثية الموصوفة أعلاه سيتم التحقق من فهرس كامل لمخطوطات البردى القبطية المحفوظة بالمتحف المصرى بتورينو، بالإضافة إلى نسخة من عناوينها ومعلومات عن أسم الكاتب ودار النشر والتاريخ الذى نشرت فية . نحن بصدد دراسة سبعة عشر مخطوطة مجزأة والتى تم شراؤها من مصر بواسطة برناردينو دروفيتى عام 1820م، وهى تعد مثال فريد للحفظ الجيد الكامل لمجموعة من الكتب التى تعود إلى أواخر العصور القديمة، من المحتمل أن تنتمى فى الأصل إلى كاتدرائية زيس والتى تعكس الأذواق الأدبية والتوجهات العقائدية قبل ما يمكن تعريفة بأنة القرن التاسع للثورة الكتابية والتى غيَرت بشكل كبير صناعة الكتب فى مصر المسيحية، فإن مكتبة زيس هى مثال حاسم وإنتقالى فى تأريخ الكتب القبطية التى شهدت من جهة خلق ملامح جديدة كوديكولوجية ورقمية وحياتية ومن جهة أخرى ظهور تدريجى للنصوص المركبة التعددية.2

Polluting till death and beyond

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Peripheral Zone ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
African City ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine residents’ perception on the polluting effects of the disposal of the dead in Ile-Ife, a traditional African city. This came about based on the recognition of the disposal of corpses and carcasses as sources of environmental pollution in the built environment. The perception study becomes imperative since introduction of perception is adjudged a tool for proffering solution to different problems in the different human endeavours and a method of getting policy information from the people that will be eventual subjects of the policy. Design/methodology/approach The study used household survey through questionnaire administration. The city of Ile-Ife was stratified into residential zones comprising the traditional zone, the transition zone and the peripheral zone. Across the zones, a total of 306 residents were systematically sampled on which the designed questionnaires were administered. Findings Dumping was the commonest method of the disposal of carcasses and burial was the commonest for corpses. The practices of the disposal of dead in the city were without consideration for its polluting effect and public health concern. Research limitations/implications The study is capable of generating hypotheses for future research in the area of environmental studies, especially in the global south. Practical implications The findings and recommendations of this study can provide information on future policy making, review and implementation on the disposal of the dead and other related issues in environmental studies both in the city and others with similar setting. Originality/value This paper is based on primary data from a survey of residents of Ile-Ife, Nigeria in March 2015. Its value lies in its capacity to suggest policy response for enhanced liveable environment through a study on residents’ perception, a bottom-up approach to policy making.

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