03/11/2023
Incredible Late Period hieroglyphs ๐๐
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02/11/2023
A bit late for but here's a to a particularly macabre-looking decorated coffin(?) fragment of the Graeco-Roman Period now . It shows a deity apparently in the act of harvesting heads...
Does anyone know a parallel?!
31/10/2023
On , I just wanted to flag the extensive Egyptomania woven into 's Edgar Allan Poe-fest 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. I especially enjoyed the references to the 19th Dynasty female pharaoh Tawosret and the sapphires spuriously said to have been used in her mummification... ๐
We may not have her sapphires but does hold some bright blue faience foundation deposits from Tawosret's west bank Theban temple! ๐
27/10/2023
One of the excitements of working with collections is noticing details that have previously escaped your attention. This week, thanks to visiting researcher Martin Odler, I saw these hieroglyphs on a 5000 year old copper adze from Abydos.
Can you make them out...? ๐
26/10/2023
to last year's exhibition & this gloriously painted vignette of the god Re-Horakhti from the Book of the Dead papyrus of Queen Nedjmet, wife of Herihor, from around 1000 BCE.
23/10/2023
Checking in this morning on this little chap - the Old Kingdom official Res-hy-nefer from Giza (http://Acc.no. 4171, from the excavations led by Flinders Petrie)...
20/10/2023
Afternoon obsession: this little-known Late Period votive statuette of a goddess, found near the sacred lake of the temple of Hathor at Dendera in 1918 and now @ the Egyptian Museum, Cairo ๐คฉ
19/10/2023
to hanging out with some of the 2300 year old sphinxes of the Saqqara Serapeum ๐ฆ
17/10/2023
I've spent some time this afternoon looking at drawer-full of terracotta heads with visual artist . Human faces never fail to generate discussion!
Here a Graeco-Roman head of a figure of Harpocrates - note the 'sidelock-of-youth'
17/10/2023
Some great layered interpretation here, in many different languages, as part of 's project. Check out this piece of a votive faience throwstick with the protective Eye of Horus:
https://multilingualmuseum.manchester.ac.uk/object/eye-of-horus/
12/10/2023
to Deir el-Bahri in December.
Currently thinking about 's expedition to Punt and how all of her soldiers look like her and Senenmut and all the deities depicted on the temple's walls... ๐ค
09/10/2023
Indulging in a tiny bit of spotting after a lovely meeting in London today.
'The Son of Re Nakhtnebef', better known as Nectanebo I (379-361 BCE)
08/10/2023
Next I'm talking about ... statues! FREE zoom for Egyptian students of , but all welcome 6pm UK/8pm Egypt ๐๐ช๐ฌ
05/10/2023
Thinking about active/passive, male/female, king/queen binaries - & the female Pharaoh
This small (40cm high) travertine figure is the only representation of Hatshepsut to survive from the 1000+ stone statues in the Karnak Cachette. Where did the rest of her Karnak sculpture end up?!
CG 42061
https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/cachette/ck88
05/10/2023
As it gets increasingly dreich โ in the UK, a to the sunny Graeco-Roman temple of Dabod now in ... โ๏ธ๐ช๐ธ
03/10/2023
On leave for a few days. I've spent this afternoon in the company of Hatshepsut's obelisks, their texts and my own experiences of visiting them at Karnak. No emails. No phone (well, except now...) - bliss.
01/10/2023
On I'm revisiting my notes on Ankh-khered-nefer ('Beautiful living child') . The cartouches of Osorkon II (c. 874-850 BCE) appear on the upper surface along with a rebus writing of his name - a child ('khered') holding the 'ankh' and 'nefer' signs ๐
29/09/2023
Currently a bit obsessed with this 5200 year old gilded wooden male figurine from Tell el-Farkha ('Mound of the Chicken') discovered by a Polish-Egyptian mission in the Nile Delta. Who is he? A ruler, a deity, an elite man? He's currently on display
at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
28/09/2023
Final places available for 's study day on . Featuring several key objects from (including this familiar example ๐ฆ๐) will introduce themes of image-making, magic, ritual and warfare.
Saturday 30th September, 09.30-15:30 GMT.
Lectures are recorded for access by participants up to two weeks after the event
https://shorturl.at/cH258
22/09/2023
Some more Egyptological highlights from my visit this week . I'm working with curators there to bring some of these fascinating objects onto display in new galleries - and learning a thing or two for in future.
A particular highlight for me was this beautiful if fragmentary stela(?) showing Tuthmose III (Men-kheper-re) at the head of a group of ancestral figures being presented with offerings - behind him a female royal, perhaps Ahmose-Nefertari?
Big thanks to Mel & Izzy at Ipswich for hosting me!
21/09/2023
Just learnt that the small holes on this Corinthian-style bronze helmet were used to help attach a leather lining to make this form of protection more comfortable for a soldier to wear. Egyptian kings of the 7th Century BCE onwards employed Greek soldiers in their armies.
20/09/2023
Finally met Titus Flavius Demetrios today. An extraordinary 2nd Century CE mask from Hawara, naming the deceased in clear Greek letters on the rear. Although extensively restored, the original winged headpiece must have been quite something ๐คฉ
18/09/2023
A bit late for , but I've been spending quite a bit of time thinking about this innovative statue of Senenmut (now in Egyptian Museum Cairo, CG 579) - his largest and most loquacious.
This photograph was taken by a tourist visiting the temple of Mut at Karnak shortly after the statues discovery in 1896. The position of the bystanders make the statue seem colossal - in fact it's only a bit over lifesize.
15/09/2023
Another highlight of my week was spotting this detailed - if slightly naรฏve - 1825 model of the Lateran of Tuthmose III and IV . The original was shipped to Rome in 357 CE and was placed in the Circus Maximus.
14/09/2023
Throwback to studying scenes of the ritual of 'Opening of the Mouth in the Mansion of Gold for a Statue' (hieros circled) for an image of King Seti I in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV17) - not merely animating but confirming the king's eternally perfect form.
13/09/2023
Some very special new acquisitions to my library: just a fraction of the magnum opus of the great Professor Kenneth Kitchen, a fellow Scot & alumnus, who patiently collected & published every historical text from the Ramesside Period (c. 1300-1000 BCE).
12/09/2023
19th Century copy (in Derbyshire marble) of a 2nd Century bust from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, showing a two-faced representation of Osiris-Apis - a likely avatar of his deified lover Antinous.
The original was found damaged in Rome in 1736 and was restored as a female figure - hence the breasts.
12/09/2023
2300 year old fragment from a striding statue of a Ptolemaic general called Djedhor "the Lion" ๐ฆ - a highlight for this statue-geek of a wonderful day with Rachel Atherton of ๐ค
11/09/2023
Checking out the competition... ๐ though I'll need to get Spanish friends to help! ๐
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11/09/2023
The humidity in today has got me needing a refreshing shower like Lady Taheret here ๐ฅตโ
09/09/2023
Paying my respects to some familiar faces this week ๐คฉ
03/09/2023
๐ this c. 1976 photo of French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches Noblecourt & the 3350 year old scribal statue of the high official Amenhotep son of Hapu.
She's indicating how the inscriptions on his lap were worn away by generations of ancient temple visitors
02/09/2023
Some appropriate reading... ๐ป
31/08/2023
to hanging out with this 3350 year old blind harpist from the Saqqara tomb chapel of Paatenemheb ('the Aten is in festival') now in Leiden ๐คฉ
25/08/2023
Look out for me popping up tomorrow on 'Queens That Changed the World' - not about myself, alas, but about my regal fave ! ๐
https://channel4.com/programmes/the-queens-that-changed-the-world/on-demand/75127-004
24/08/2023
A 2000 year old pottery lamp from with a on it.
This made my day.
20/08/2023
This weekend, I've been thinking about stelophoroi - statues like this early 18th Dynasty example of Wensu showing the owner with a text describing the adoring of the beauty (Neferu) of the sun god (Re)... wondering what this may mean for Senenmut being shown so often with Princess Neferure held in front of him. ๐คโ๏ธ
18/08/2023
Spotted this last week: a wall-mounted photo of an display showing a cabinet with animal mummies and bronze votives. The limestone statue of the New Kingdom official Iuty looks on as if he were a gallery attendant. Anyone know the date of the image...?
15/08/2023
Some highlights of last week's intensely mid-expanding trip to . So many ideas to explore back ๐ค
14/08/2023
Revisiting photos from my visit to last week, I spotted this delightful detail on cosmetic containers from the reign of Tuthmose IV, c. 1400 BCE: the name of a King's Daughter, Nub-em-tekh - meaning literally "golden in drunkenness." Utterly fantastic โจ๐ป
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are visiting the World Museum in Liverpool with our Chair Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) to discuss museums, display and interpretation!
Find out more about our scholars: Ahmed Mansour, Mostafa Tolba, Noura Seada, and Zeinab Mahmoud, as well as their work placement here: https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/ees-2022-scholarships
The Egypt Exploration Society thanks the British Council for supporting this programme.
Find out more about our scholars: Ahmed Mansour, Mostafa Tolba, Noura Seada, and Zeinab Mahmoud, as well as their work placement here: https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/ees-2022-scholarships
The Egypt Exploration Society thanks the British Council for supporting this programme.
Saw these at the British museum today. Aren't they fab? Though not as highly decorated as other sarcophagi/sculptures I have seen. NY chance of doing a lecture on changes in sarcophagi.... especially the plain but beautiful late period?
Today is ๐ฆ - check out this rather angry (protective?) ceramic hippo found in a grave at the site of Hu in Egypt in 1898-9?
Image: DIOS.NEG.230
Today you can see the actual piece in the Ashmolean Museum!
AN1896-1908 E.3267
Hippos donโt live in the Egyptian Nile today. Imagine how much the environment must have changed since this was made.
Lots of ancient artefacts from Egypt include depictions of hippos. Like this bowl from Mahasna (near Abydos) with four walking around its rim!
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Image: AB-MAH.NEG.141
Bowl now in Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum
Do you have any Egyptian hippos to share? ๐คฉ
( to last year's Twitter thread on )
Image: DIOS.NEG.230
Today you can see the actual piece in the Ashmolean Museum!
AN1896-1908 E.3267
Hippos donโt live in the Egyptian Nile today. Imagine how much the environment must have changed since this was made.
Lots of ancient artefacts from Egypt include depictions of hippos. Like this bowl from Mahasna (near Abydos) with four walking around its rim!
๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Image: AB-MAH.NEG.141
Bowl now in Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum
Do you have any Egyptian hippos to share? ๐คฉ
( to last year's Twitter thread on )
Listen to EES Chair Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) discuss the 100th anniversary of the discovery of 's tomb, an overview of the soon-to-open , the Great and more on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast!
Listen on your preferred provider or https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/treasuresofancientegypt
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Online Course: An Introduction to
TOMORROW, Dr Carl Graves starts our next course by introducing ancient Egypt from beginning to end. Weโll cover timelines and the landscape of northeast Africa setting the scene for future sessions.
Book now: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt
Explore daily life, monuments, art, burial, and the future of archaeology in with us and guest speaker Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum)!
Can't make the live sessions? Classes will be recorded and available to watch (or rewatch) afterwards!
Don't miss out, book now!
https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt
TOMORROW, Dr Carl Graves starts our next course by introducing ancient Egypt from beginning to end. Weโll cover timelines and the landscape of northeast Africa setting the scene for future sessions.
Book now: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt
Explore daily life, monuments, art, burial, and the future of archaeology in with us and guest speaker Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum)!
Can't make the live sessions? Classes will be recorded and available to watch (or rewatch) afterwards!
Don't miss out, book now!
https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-course-an-introduction-to-ancient-egypt
If you missed The Egypt Exploration Society's Christmas Spotlight with Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) yesterday, watch it now on YouTube!
This lecture launched our new monthly programme, presenting alternative (occasionally disruptive) dialogues in the broader subject of Egyptian cultural heritage!
Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel and save our playlist of Tuesday Spotlights, so you never miss a video! ๐
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfdTU5bBwmN4wFpPaYrpEUSzLD20aYAI
This lecture launched our new monthly programme, presenting alternative (occasionally disruptive) dialogues in the broader subject of Egyptian cultural heritage!
Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel and save our playlist of Tuesday Spotlights, so you never miss a video! ๐
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfdTU5bBwmN4wFpPaYrpEUSzLD20aYAI
EES Christmas Spotlight: Imagining Ancient Egyptian Faces | Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) | TOMORROW ๐ 1pm ๐ฌ๐ง 3pm ๐ช๐ฌโ
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Join us for our first Tuesday Spotlight lecture, considering the popularity of facial reconstruction as a means of bringing an imagined past to life.
โน๏ธ https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/christmas-spotlight-imagining-ancient-egyptian-faces
Cannot join us for the live session tomorrow?
Don't worry, our new programme of monthly Tuesday Spotlight lectures will be presented live at lunchtimes, or available to catch up on later via our YouTube channel!
Register now for a link to the recording๐
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Join us for our first Tuesday Spotlight lecture, considering the popularity of facial reconstruction as a means of bringing an imagined past to life.
โน๏ธ https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/christmas-spotlight-imagining-ancient-egyptian-faces
Cannot join us for the live session tomorrow?
Don't worry, our new programme of monthly Tuesday Spotlight lectures will be presented live at lunchtimes, or available to catch up on later via our YouTube channel!
Register now for a link to the recording๐
Online Lecture: Tiny Egypt: through a macro lens by Julia Thorne ๐
Tuesday 2 November โฐ 1pm ๐ฌ๐ง 2pm ๐ช๐ฌ
Take a macro view of the archaeological past with , and explore a world full of hidden details using artefacts from Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum, Garstang Museum of Archaeology, and Bolton Library and Museum Services.
๐ซ https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-lecture-tiny-egypt-ancient-egypt-through-a-macro-lens
Take a macro view of the archaeological past with , and explore a world full of hidden details using artefacts from Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum, Garstang Museum of Archaeology, and Bolton Library and Museum Services.
๐ซ https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/online-lecture-tiny-egypt-ancient-egypt-through-a-macro-lens
Want to get to know the Chair of The Egypt Exploration Society in advance of our AGM in December?
Then check out this article about Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) by InYourArea.co.uk: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/egyptologist-at-manchester-museum-appointed-key-position-in-world-of-archaeology/
If you are an EES member, please make sure to register for our online AGM via our website: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/annual-general-meeting-2021
Then check out this article about Dr Campbell Price (Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum) by InYourArea.co.uk: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/egyptologist-at-manchester-museum-appointed-key-position-in-world-of-archaeology/
If you are an EES member, please make sure to register for our online AGM via our website: https://www.ees.ac.uk/Event/annual-general-meeting-2021
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