Sensuous Experience, Performance, and Presence in Third Intermediate Period Biography

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Frood
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

This chapter analyses biographical motifs relating to sensory experience found in inscriptions largely belonging to one tenth-century bc priestly family in Thebes. The four statues which are the focus of discussion (CG 42225; CG 42226; CG 42227; CG 42228) were dedicated in the temple precinct of Karnak by Hor IX for himself, his ancestor, and his wife. Inscriptions on a statue of Horakhbit I (CG 42231) from Karnak are also treated. Celebration of the senses is found in these texts through the fusion of biography with themes known from harpists' songs, a genre previously associated with tombs; the use of myrrh, a pleasurable and ritual substance; and through phraseology that mobilises the sensuous geographies of sacred space. Study of how such motifs relate to other features of biography across the statues offers insights into transformations of more than one genre and developments in the function of statues in temples.

scholarly journals Deux fragments de portraits funéraires romains de Deir el-Bahari

2011 ◽  
pp. 259-266
Author(s):  
Zsolt Kiss ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Context ◽  
Small Fragment ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Two fragments of painted Roman funerary portraits on wooden panels of the Fayum type, discovered in 2001 during a revisiting of the Third Intermediate Period shaft tombs inside the Chapel of Hatshepsut in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, come from 19th century excavations, hence are without anything but a general context. The pieces are very small—fragment of a robe, sliver of a face with one eye—but in a brilliant analysis of iconography and style Kiss identifies one as a depiction of a female, possibly a priestess of Isis, from the second half of the 2nd century AD, and the other as a male portrait from the 2nd century. The portraits may belong to what some scholars have called “Theban” painted funerary portraits and they must have come from a Roman necropolis in West Thebes, possibly Deir el-Medineh. On any case, they are proof that mummies with painted portraits of the deceased on wooden panels fitted into the cartonnages were not unknown in ancient Thebes.

scholarly journals Beiträge zur Geschichte der Dritten Zwischenzeit

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Karl Jansen-Winkeln
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genealogical Data ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

In this short Beiträge three points relevant to the history of the Third Intermediate Period are presented. 1. The genealogical data of the family of the army scribe Nespaqashuty written on a fragmentary block statue from Karnak have hitherto been misunderstood. The owner of the statue is not Nespaqashuty ii, who lived in the time of Siamun, but a grandson of Amenemone i. The statue may have been dedicated by his son Ankhefenkhons during the time of Osorkon ii. 2. According to stela Cairo je 66285, the Libyan chief and later king Shoshenq i had a statue of his father Nimlot A erected in the temple of Abydos. The offering established for this statue is written with a hieroglyph simply to be read ḥtp “offering,” not ẖntj “statue” or qnyt “portable image” as proposed before. 3. Some aspects of the chronological and political relations between Bocchoris and Shabako and their predecessors Tefnakhte and Piankhy are considered as well as the supposed reason for the attack on Bocchoris by “Sabakôn.”

Banganarti and Selib in 2011/2012 and 2013

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 369-388
Author(s):  
Bogdan Żurawski
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Dam Construction ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
Large Building ◽  
The Church

In the course of two seasons in 2012 and 2013 the team carried out excavations and research on the living quarters alongside the fortifications of Banganarti, including a large building (E.1) and eastern tower. Work on the restoration/conservation of the Upper Church progressed according to plan, combined with limited iconographic studies. The team also worked at the sites of Selib and Soniyat. At Selib explorations continued at three locations. The phasing of the church at Selib 1 was established (separate report by A. Cedro), leading to a reconstruction of the plan of the earliest two buildings. A Meroitic(?) structure was investigated at Selib 3 and the Meroitic settlement at Selib 2 continued to be investigated (separate report by R. Hajduga and K. Solarska). A tachymetric plan and magnetic map of the environs of the Kushite temple at Soniyat was accomplished, recording a huge building (palace?) of apparently Kushite date (Napatan ceramic forms and Egyptian imports dating from the Third Intermediate Period) to the north of the temple. A separate team undertook a reconnaissance in regions scheduled to be flooded due to new dam construction projects in Kajbar and Shereik (Third and Fifth cataracts), staying on to record in detail a number of Makurian fortresses.

The tombs of Asasif: archaeological exploration in the 2013/2014 season

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Chudzik
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

In the 2013/2014 season, a Polish team from the University of Wrocław started work in the northern part of the Asasif necropolis, near the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari. An archaeological survey was carried out on the Asasif slope. Cleaning work and documentation were undertaken of the architecture of four private tombs: MMA 509/TT 312, MMA 512, MMA 513/TT 314 and MMA 514, as well as the archaeological finds thereof. The rock-cut tombs belong to a Middle Kingdom necropolis and were all reused in later times, especially in the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period.

Remarks on royal statues in the form of the god Osiris from Deir el-Bahari

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-389
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Szafrański
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Reconstruction Project ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period ◽  
North And South

This article recapitulates information available, and mostly not published yet, on the statues in the form of the god Osiris from the Upper (Coronation) and Lower Porticoes of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. This includes the North and South Colossi, both of which were recently restored in a pilot reconstruction project undertaken by the Polish team, revising a missed restoration attempt by earlier excavators. Other examples include a sandstone painted statue of Amenhotep I, from Asasif, in the form of the mummiform figure of the god Osiris, which was also reconstructed, a fragmentary sandstone statue of Amenhotep III in the form of Osiris, as well as two fragments of statues of Osiris from the Third Intermediate Period burial ground discovered in the area of the temple of Hatshepsut.

Preliminary assessment of human remains from the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Roselyn A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Excavations over the course of many seasons by the Polish-Egyptian Mission in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari have revealed the presence of multiple intrusive burials within and around the temple structure itself. These burials are dated much later than the construction of Hatshepsut’s temple, most of them seemingly from the Third Intermediate Period, and have been heavily disturbed over the millennia. This article presents a preliminary assessment of human remains from some of these burials. The remains are highly fragmentary and in varying states of preservation, from mummified to completely skeletonized. Only two individuals are present as nearly complete mummies. A brief inventory indicates the presence of multiple individuals, both adults and juveniles, and both male and female. At least one instance of a healed traumatic injury is visible in one of the mummified individuals. This preliminary study is intended to establish a foundation for future research regarding the life histories of these individuals.

scholarly journals Estudio preliminar sobre la tumba 22, hallada en el noroeste del templo de Millones de Años de Tutmosis III

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-226
Author(s):  
Javier Martínez Babón
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theban Necropolis ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

So far, five tombs have been discovered in the northwest corner of the site of the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III. These tombs date from the end of the Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period. From the architectural point of view, they correspond to two historical moments, on which the oldest one has evidence of a destructive flooding. Tomb no. XXII is especially interesting because many mummy and goods were found in it. This discovery will provide new information on the Late Period Theban necropolis

Tombs of the Third Intermediate Period on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of Hatshepsut

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Zbigniew E. Szafrański
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

A newly discovered necropolis on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of Hatshepsut was in use from the Twenty-second until the beginning of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. The archaeological material coming from the backfill of the tombs proved to be mixed but datable. Interesting observations concern the structure and architecture of the tombs and their substructure.

Third Intermediate Period funerary assemblages from the Chapel of Hatshepsut: Coffins and cartonnages from the Twenty-second to the Twenty-fifth Dynasties

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-324
Author(s):  
Frédéric Payraudeau
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The text catalogues the best preserved pieces of coffins and cartonnages excavated from the burials made on the Third Terrace of the Temple of Hatsheput in the Third Intermediate Period when the ruins were used as a burial ground for noblemen, in particular the family of Vizier Padiamunet. Hundreds of fragments were found since the 1930s (not all have survived and the fragmentation and mixing of the finds make it a very difficult material to study). On typological and epigraphic grounds the remains were assigned to the third part of the Twenty-second and the larger part of the Twenty-fifth Dynasties.

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