Mary Had a Little Ram

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Brink ◽  
Salima Ikram ◽  
Zulema Barahona-Mendieta ◽  
Pia Frade
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Dense Deposit ◽  
Pottery Sherds

The Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga (Proyecto Djehuty) has been working in the Eighteenth Dynasty Theban Tombs of Djehuty (TT 11) and Hery (TT 12) and their environs since 2002. The excavators uncovered a deposit west of the courtyard of TT 11, consisting of a wrapped ram, a wooden coffin, and a dense deposit of pottery sherds. This is possibly one of the earliest excavated animal burials in the Theban area, and unusual in the fact that it is of a ram. This article focuses on exploring and contextualising this rare find of the late Second Intermediate Period/early New Kingdom.

A Family of Lector-Priests at Edfu: Oriental Institute Stela E11455 and the 'Ib Family during the Early Eighteenth Dynasty

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Bandy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Scribal Culture ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This article presents the study of two stelae from Edfu dating to the early Eighteenth Dynasty that represent members of the same extended family of lector-priests from Edfu (Oriental Institute E11455 and Princeton Y1993-151). The texts of both stelae were published in the early twentieth century; however, neither stela has been comprehensively published. The two stelae present the opportunity to revisit the family’s genealogy and chronological position. The study also considers dating criteria for late Second Intermediate period and early Eighteenth Dynasty stelae and assesses the contemporary positioning and role of lector-priests. Finally, it briefly addresses the influence of documentary scribal culture on monumental inscriptions vis-a?-vis the late Second Intermediate period–early New Kingdom Tell Edfu Ostraca.

Tell el-Retaba 2012: the pottery

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 164-172
Author(s):  
Anna Wodzińska
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Area 7 ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
First Time ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

Archaeological remains excavated by the Polish–Slovak Archaeological Mission in Tell el-Retaba can be well dated to the New Kingdom till the Late Period. During the 2012 season domestic layers from the Hyksos period were found, indicating that the site was occupied for the first time around the end of the Thirteenth and beginning of the Fifteenth Dynasties. Next to the houses three Hyksos graves were found. Archaeological work also revealed houses from the early Eighteenth Dynasty located just above the Hyksos structures in Area 7. Very interesting material came from the late Twentieth Dynasty and Third Intermediate Period houses excavated in Area 9. Rich pottery assemblages mostly of domestic character have been recovered from all of the structures.

An Early Eighteenth Dynasty Monument of Sipair from Saqqâra

1989 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Jaromir Malek
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Small Fragment ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty

The monument discussed here may have been the pedestal of a stela, but is only recorded in copies made by Hay and Wilkinson early in the last century (a small fragment which used to be in Berlin is now lost). Sipair was an ‘Overseer of the treasury’, probably under Amosis. His presumed tomb at Saqqâra would be the earliest New-Kingdom tomb known in the area. One of Sipair's epithets refers to chariotry, and the hieroglyph used in it is the earliest representation of a horse from ancient Egypt. Memphite examples of titles connected with chariotry are listed, and Second Intermediate Period and early Eighteenth Dynasty evidence from the Memphite area reviewed.

The Second Intermediate Period and early New Kingdom at Deir al-Barsha

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (XV) ◽  
pp. 101-130
Author(s):  
J. Bourriau ◽  
M. De Meyer ◽  
L. Op de Beeck ◽  
St. Vereecken
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period

Egyptian Conquest and Administration of Nubia

2021 ◽  
pp. 326-341
Author(s):  
Dominique Valbelle
Keyword(s):  
New Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Sacred Image

After the Second Intermediate Period (1730–1552 bce), the reconquest of Lower Nubia and the conquest of Upper Nubia by the Egyptian army happened in several phases during the New Kingdom, the powerful realm of Kush being supported by large African coalitions. Since the reign of Thutmose III (1458–1426 bce), the country being at last pacified, an administrative disposal was improved to exploit the resources of Nubia, whose knowledge increased until the death of Sety I. Rameses II (1279–1214 bce) was mostly interested in Lower Egypt where he built several temples devoted to the cult of his own sacred image but apparently less in Upper Nubia. After his reign, the interest of Egypt for the Nubian territories decreased along with its political and economic supremacy.

Nubians in Egypt from the Early Dynastic Period to the New Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
Georg K. Meurer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Early Dynastic

Nubians lived in Egypt from Predynastic times and through all periods. In the Aswan region, they were part of the indigenous population from Old to Middle Kingdom (A-Group, C-Group). From late Middle Kingdom through Second Intermediate Period, representatives of the Pan-Grave culture, presumably to be identified with the Medjay, and later the Kerma culture was present in Upper Egypt (Theban area) progressively up to the Delta at Tell el-Dab’a until the 18th Dynasty. Despite the official Egyptian dogma that regarded foreigners as elements of chaos, the reality shows that Nubians were integrated in the Egyptian society when accepting the Egyptian way of life. This is also visible in the wider range of occupations performed by native Nubians. While from time to time foreign groups also left the Egyptian Nile Valley, this Egyptianization or cultural entanglement resulted in a disappearing of foreigners in the sources.

New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty

Artibus Asiae ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Nora Scott ◽  
Cyril Aldred
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty

The Theban Kingdom of Dynasty 16: Its Rise, Administration and Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Ilin-Tomich
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
The North

This paper focuses on the emergence of the Theban kingdom of Dynasty 16 in the Second Intermediate Period and explores the historical repercussions of its assumed struggle with the declining state of Dynasty 13 centered at Itjtawy. A revision of the recent evidence from Edfu raises doubts about the alleged contemporaneity of Sobekhotep iv and Khayan. A survey of administrative titles in the sources pertaining to the Theban kingdom testifies that it arose independently based on the local power structures of the Late Middle Kingdom rather than because of a relocation from the north. The separation of the nascent Theban kingdom from the state of Dynasty 13 and a surmised consequent confrontation between these entities had an impact on the ideology of the new polity and influenced the policy of its direct successor—the state of Dynasty 17 and the early New Kingdom. The original lack of legitimacy of Dynasty 16 could have been one of the reasons for overstating the power of the Hyksos in historical texts—in order to justify Theban claims to rule in Middle and Lower Egypt.

Tell Retaba. Season 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Hudec ◽  
Łukasz Jarmużek ◽  
Lucia Hulcova ◽  
Emil Fulajtar ◽  
Veronica Dubcova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nile Delta ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The 2017 season of archaeological excavation at the site of Tell el-Retaba in the Nile Delta in Egypt led to several interesting discoveries. Two of these concerned burials: a Hyksos tomb from the Second Intermediate Period, robbed but with some remains of the original furnishings, and pit burials from the early Eighteenth Dynasty, one of which was richly endowed with silver jewelry. Meriting note is the discovery of moats belonging to the defenses of the Nineteenth Dynasty fortress. Exploration of a crowded Third Intermediate Period settlement was continued.

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