{"title":"Review of Pygmäen in Ägypten? Die Widerlegung eines alten Irrtums. Bevölkerte Nillandschaften in der antiken Kunst","authors":"Robert Steven Bianchi","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 Volker Michael Strocka, Pygmäen in Ägypten? Die Widerlegung eines alten Irrtums. Bevölkerte Nillandschaften in derantiken Kunst.
 
 
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Ines Köhler, Eva-Maria Engel, Tilmann Kunze, Anke Ilona Blöbaum
{"title":"Two or Three Things on Four Women Depicted on One Stela (MMA 36.3.270","authors":"Ines Köhler, Eva-Maria Engel, Tilmann Kunze, Anke Ilona Blöbaum","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a007","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 This paper deals with a painted limestone stela preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art/New York (MMA 36.3.270) dating to the late Middle Kingdom and found in the 1930s by the MMA Museum’s expedition at Thebes, Asasif. The painted stela has a hieroglyphic inscription and a scene of four individuals obviously to be read as female. Stelae depicting only women are quite rare and thus this stela deserves a closer look. We will see that the names mentioned, the identification of the women and their relationship to each other, are anything but clear. Taking the broader find context into account and comparing it with similar burials, it turns out that it is thus possible to get more information about these women, their social status, and their profession.
 
 
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{"title":"Undecorated Tomb No. 18 at Beni Hassan and the Succession of Its Ruling Family","authors":"Rehab Ismail","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a005","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 The uninscribed and unfinished tomb No. 18 at Beni Hassan represents a key to understanding the architectural development of the tombs in this site as well as to the study of the succession of members of the nomarchic family of the 16th Upper Egyptian province. The location, approach, and design of the chapel, as well as the number and type of architraves and columns place the tomb immediately after the neighbouring one, No. 17, of Khety I, and make it likely that it belonged to the latter’s son, Khety II. It is argued that following the successive deaths of Khety I and Khety II, probably due to the bellicose conditions at the time, Khnumhotep I of tomb No. 14, a likely son or descendant of Baqet III of tomb No. 15, became a governor and cut his tomb adjacent to that of the latter. The architectural and artistic similarities between the two tombs are striking. An examination of the skeletal remains of Baqet II, Khety I, and probably Khety II, shows evidence of a possible involvement in wars and indicates that they died at young age. The representation of specific individuals and certain themes in a number of tombs at Beni Hassan suggests that these tombs belonged to members of the same family and that all date to a relatively short period in the second half of the Eleventh Dynasty and the first half of the Twelfth.
 
 
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{"title":"Review of Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology","authors":"Jenail Marshall, Michele R. Buzon","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev006","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 William Carruthers. Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
 
 
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{"title":"Zur Frage einer möglichen Umarbeitung der Mumienmaske Tutanchamuns","authors":"Christian Eckmann, Katja Broschat, Tom Hardwick","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a003","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 This article addresses the question of the possible reuse of the mummy mask of Tutankhamun (Carter 256a). Recent publications have proposed that the mask was not originally made for Tutankhamun but was instead made for Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten as co-regent with Akhenaten. As part of the preparations for Tutankhamun’s burial it was reworked to produce a likeness of its new owner. This process necessitated the replacement of the original sheet gold face with one depicting Tutankhamun’s features, and the erasure of Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten’s name from the inscription on the left shoulder of the mask and its replacement with Tutankhamun’s.
 Technological and scientific data derived from two of the authors’ intensive study of the mask in 2015 allow this hypothesis to be tested. This article discusses the basic manufacturing process for the mask and the technical requirements for a theoretical reworking of face and inscription; an excursus considers the textual merits of the purported “original” inscription set against those of the existing, purported “usurped” one. The authors conclude that there are no solid grounds to view the mask as having been altered from one owner to another.
 
 
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{"title":"En Route to the Red Sea Shore and Beyond in the Naqada II Period?","authors":"Axelle Brémont, Pierre Tallet","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a002","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 The recent documentation of rock art panels in the Wadi Naqqât, near Hurghada (which have been known for decades but never studied nor published) invites us to reconsider the presence of Naqadan populations directly on the Red Sea shores in the Naqada IIB-IIC period (ca. 3500–3400 av. J.-C.). The panels are illustrated, described and dated. Then a general discussion examines all clues known to this date for these early connections between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, as well as the possibility of Egyptian seafaring already in this early period.
 
 
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{"title":"Doorkeepers in Third Intermediate to Saite Period Thebes","authors":"Cynthia May Sheikholeslami","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.a009","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 This paper investigates a preliminary corpus of over sixty persons with the non-priestly title Doorkeeper (iry-aA) who are attested primarily on their burial equipment from Thebes and discusses their function and socio-economic status in Theban society from the Twenty-Second through the Twenty-Sixth Dynasties. It appears that at this time, Theban doorkeepers do not have as lowly a status as often ascribed to them for the Middle and New Kingdoms in the Egyptological literature reviewed here, but should be classed as middle or lower elite, as indicated by their funerary equipment. The various writings of the title iry-aA attested during this period are compared. The iry-aA as keeper of doors/gates in funerary texts is not included.
 
 
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{"title":"Review of Jean Capart: De Kroniekschrijver van Egypte/Jean Capart: Le chroniqueur de l’Égypte","authors":"Annelies Van de Ven","doi":"10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.59.2023.rev009","url":null,"abstract":"
 
 
 Jean-Michel Bruffaerts, Jean Capart: De Kroniekschrijver van Egypte/Jean Capart: Le chroniqueur de l’Égypte.
 
 
","PeriodicalId":341132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt","volume":"63 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of he Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom; and Ancient Egyptian Imperialism","authors":"S. T. Smith","doi":"10.5913/jarce.58.2022.rev004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.58.2022.rev004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Ellen Morris, The Architecture of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Evolution of Foreign Policy in Egypt’s New Kingdom. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Probleme der Ägyptologie 22. ISBN 90-04-1406-0. Pp ix + 891, 63 black and white illustrations. $451.00. \u0000Ellen Morris, Ancient Egyptian Imperialism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2018. ISBN 9781405136785. Pp xi + 320, numerous black and white illustrations. $99.95; Pbk $39.95. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":341132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116446116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossing the Gates of tA-Dsr","authors":"J. Pellini","doi":"10.5913/jarce.58.2022.a009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jarce.58.2022.a009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The scenes of the Sacred District are characterized by the presence of a group of buildings that appear in a compact form and where there is no activity of human agents or of the deceased. According to some scholars, the scenes refer to the Butic funerary rituals. The purpose of this text is to present a study of the scenes of the Sacred District comparing those in Theban Tomb 123 to other Theban tombs. The article also proposes to think of images not as representations, but as alternative forms of existence that set in motion a series of affective flows. The affective flows generated by the encounters between bodies, allowed the dead person to leave his state of latency and become a manifest being. \u0000 \u0000تتميز مشاهد الحي المقدس بوجود مجموعة من المباني التي تظهر بشكل مدمج ولا يوجد فيها نشاط للبشر أو للمتوفى. وبحسب بعض العلماء، تشير المشاهد إلى ما يعرف ب»الطقوس الجنائزية البوتية». الغرض من هذا البحث هو تقديم دراسة لمشاهد الحي المقدس ومقارنة تلكالموجودةفيمقبرةبمTT123قابرأخرىفيمدينةطيبة.تقترحالدراسةأيًضاالتفكيرفيالصورليسعلىأنهاتمثيلات،ولكنكأشكالبديلة \u0000للوجود التي تطلق سلسلة من النتائج. سمحت تلك النتائج للميت أن يترك حالة الكمون ليصبح كائ ًنا له وجود واضح. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":341132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}