Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research: Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists (2nd-7th June, 2015, Zagr

The Seventh Central European Conference of Egyptologists. Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research (CECE7) was held at the University of Zagreb in Croatia in 2015. It was co-organised by two scholarly institutions: the Department of History at the Centre for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, Croatia (Dr Mladen Tomorad), and the Department of Ancient Cultures of the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk, Poland (Dr Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska). This book presents a selection of papers which were read at the conference. The volume is divided into six sections in which thirty-two scholars from fourteen European countries cover various fields of modern Egyptological research. The first group of five papers is devoted to language, literature and religious texts; in the second section three authors describe various themes related to art, iconography and architectural studies; the third group contains four contributions on current funerary and burial studies; in the fourth (largest) section, ten authors present their recent research on material culture and museum studies; the fifth is concerned with the history of Ancient Egypt; and in the last (sixth), two authors examine modern Egyptomania and the 19th century travellers to Egypt.Table of ContentsPrefaceSection 1: Language, Literature and Religious TextsTime(s) in Ancient Egyptian: Perspectives of a Broad Lexical Study. The Case of dwA.t and dwA (Gaëlle Chantrain)Nu, Continuity and Everlastingness in the Pyramid Texts (Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska)‘Children of Weakness’ in the Book of Gates (Mykola Tarasenko)Is There an Egyptian Hero? – the Contributions of Mythological and Literary Studies to an Egyptological Subject (Bárbara Botelho Rodrigues)The Study of Sacred Space in Ancient Egypt: an Example of Interaction Between Egyptology and Other Fields of Knowledge (Guilherme Borges Pires)Section 2: Art, Iconography and Architecture StudiesAn Examination and Analysis of the Role of the Iconographic Rosette Motif in the Egyptian Artistic Repertoire: a Case Study (Cheryl Hart)A Note on the Late Middle Kingdom Stelae ‘Workshop’ at Thebes (Danijela Stefanović)Domestic Architecture and Daily Life in Meroitic Nubia (Marco Baldi)Section 3: Funerary and Burial StudiesThe Earliest Source of the So-called Book of Two Ways as a Coffin Floorboard Decoration from the Early Middle Kingdom (Wael Sherbiny)Egyptian Coffins at the Fitzwilliam Museum: a Case Study in Collection Formation (Helen Strudwick)The History of the Main Burial Shaft of Theban Tomb 99 from 1450 BC to the Present Day (Nigel Strudwick)Provenancing Roman Period Mummy Masks: Workshop Groups and Distribution Areas (Asja Müller)Section 4: Material Culture and Museum StudiesThe Decorated Pottery from Proto- and Early Dynastic Periods at Tell el-Farkha (Western Kom), Egypt (Magdalena Sobas)The Sunshade after the Old Kingdom – Female Attribute with Hathoric Connotation? (Lubica Hudáková)Settlement Pottery from the Old Kingdom Period at Tell El-Murra Trench T5 (Magdalena Kazimierczak)Some Ramesside Appropriations of Ancient Memphis (Steven Snape)A Stelophorous Statuette from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: an Adorer Offering a Hymn–Stele to the Solar God Rē‛ [aiγ Λ 108] (Alicia Maravelia)The Cult of Bastet during the First Millennium BC: some Bronzes from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Maria Diletta Pubblico)Shabtis from the Museum and Private Collections in Croatia: Dating and Typological Study (Mladen Tomorad)Shabtis and Pseudo-Shabtis from the Roman Provinces of Pannonia, Dacia and Moesia. An Overview (Dan-Augustin Deac)The Egyptian Collection at the Civico Museo di Storia ed Arte of Trieste: its History and Some Highlights (Susanna Moser)Excavating an Archive. The Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) (Stefania Mainieri)Section 5: Historical StudiesThe Neolithic Period in Lower Egypt – Research Problems and Priorities (Agnieszka Mączyńska)Meret-Neith: in the Footsteps of the First Woman Pharaoh in History (Jean-Pierre Pätznick)Regional Administration in Late Middle Kingdom Egypt (Alexander Ilin-Tomich)Enemies Hanged Upside (Head) Down (Uroš Matić)Egypt and the Southern Levant Nomadic Populations: the Dynamics of Relations During Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (Eva Katarina Glazer)Section 6: Egyptomania and Modern Travellers to EgyptWonderful Things: Thematic Transmission in Egyptian Revival Jewellery (Joyce Tyldesley)Eight Years Following the Traces of Giuseppe and Amalia Nizzoli: Preliminary Results of the Nizzoli Project (Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo and Irene Guidotti)