=============================================== EEF NEWS (1141) =============================================== July 9, 2020 (III Akhet 23) Contents: (I) New: Lectures and symposiums (II) New: Exhibitions (III) Personals and Sundries (IV) Read on the Web (V) Books and Journals (VIA) Jobs and Grants (VIB) Courses and Trips (VII) (Multi)media (VIII) Websites ________________________________________________ Please send any contributions to: ayma@tip.nl (A. K. Eyma) Thanks for this week's events information go to: Ken Griffin [(I) - VL (b)]; Antoine Hirsch [(I) - VL (d)]; Kate Liszka [(I) - VL (h)]; Ingrid van Sprakelaar [(II) - USA (a)(j)(s), Canada (e), Germany (e)(n)(x), France (k), Spain (g), Switzerland (a), Czech Republic (a)]; Michael Tilgner [(II) - France (k)] _______________________________________________ EEF website: =============================================== NB: For those with email servers that may cut short lenghty emails: a plain text file (.TXT), that can be cut and pasted into the body of an email to activate the URLs, is available at: =============================================== (I) NEW: LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS --VIRTUAL LECTURES (via ZOOM or Crowdcast)--- b) The Egypt Centre, Swansea * Fundraising lecture (via Zoom): "The Saqqara Saite Tombs Project: Re-excavation, Documentation, and New Discoveries", by Dr Ramadan Hussein (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) date: 1 August 2020, 3pm (UK time) costs: £5 (inclusive of booking fee); tickets via [update] d) Centre of Papyrus Studies and Inscriptions, Ain Shams University * CPSI webinar: "Egyptian Deities in Graeco-Roman Era – The Overlap and Integration" Organized by CPSI and The Canadian Institute in Egypt. [new] date: Thursday, July 16, 2020; 03:00-07:00 PM GMT Time / 05:00-09:00 PM Cairo Time [new time slot] costs: free; advanced registration required at g) The American Research Center in Egypt * Online lecture: "The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69): The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb", by Melinda Hartwig date: July 15, 2020; 1:00 PM ET/7:00 PM EET costs: free and open to the public; advanced registration required info: h) ARCE / Orange County Chapter * Webinar: "Pantheon of Paradoxes: Ferocity and the Feminine", by Prof. Jacqueline Thurston date: Saturday July 11, 2020; 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. costs: free for ARCE and Bowers Museum Members; $6 for Non-ARCE and Non-Bowers Members. info: abstract and online registration at info: -------------------------------------------------------------- For still current info about events listed earlier, see section IX of the website version: The letters attached to events ["a)" etc] refer to the place of these events in the website schedule. =============================================== (II) NEW: EXHIBITIONS --USA-– [update] a) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220-4007 * “Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities” date: July 4, 2020 – January 18, 2021 [new] info: English press reports (about the opening) at [update] j) Carnegie Science Center One Allegheny Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212 * "Mummies of the World: The Exhibition" [new] date: October 5, 2019 - TBA [prolongation; was: till April 19, 2020] info: [new] info: English press report at The museum has reopened to the public on June 29, 2020. [update] s) Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, New York 14211 * "Golden Mummies of Egypt" [new] date: February 8, 2020 - October 18, 2020 [prolongation; was: till June 21, 2020] info: [new] info: English press reports at "The Buffalo Museum of Science announced Monday they will begin gradual reopening Friday, July 10, (..) on a three-day schedule of Friday, Saturday and Sunday (..)." --CANADA-– [update] e) Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3A6 * "Egyptian Mummies and Eternal Life" [new] date: February 22, 2020 - November 2020 [prolongation; was: till June 21, 2020] info: --GERMANY-– e) Bode-Museum Am Kupfergraben, Eingang über die Monbijoubrücke, 10117 Berlin * "Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst" date: 4. Quartal 2020 - TBA Exhibition (long term?) about art of the West-Roman and Byzantine Empires, 3rd to 15th centuries; one of the main areas is Coptic Egypt. info: "(..) Gegenstände des Alltags und der christlichen Religion aus Ägypten geben Hinweise auf das tägliche Leben und die Ausstattung liturgischer Abläufe. Darunter sind auch Bodenfunde aus organischen Materialien wie Holz und Textilien, die ihre Erhaltung dem heißen und trockenen Wüstenklima Ägyptens verdanken. (..)" [update] n) Museum August Kestner Trammplatz 3, 30159 Hannover * “Für die Ewigkeit! Altägyptische Steingefäße” [new] date: 28 May 2020 - 27 September 2020 [so was not fully cancelled after all] [new] info: [new] info: German press report at [Needs registration] [update] x) Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen - Museum Zeughaus C5, 68159 Mannheim * "Tutanchamun – Sein Grab und seine Schätze" [Tutankhamun - His tomb and his treasures] date: 10 September 2021 - 27 February 2022 [new] info: --FRANCE-- [update] k) Musée de Médard 71 Place Martyrs de la Résistance, 34400 Lunel * "Du papyrus à la photographie: l‘Égypte en volumes et en images" [Papyrus photography: Egypt in volumes and in pictures] [new] date: 6 November 2019 – 26 September 2020 [prolongation; was: till 5 April 2020] info: [new] info: French press report at "(..) Cette exposition, déjà en place avant la pandémie du Covid-19, emmène le public dans un parcours très riche abordant différents thèmes : le récit de voyage XVIe – XVIIe siècles ; l’écriture avec le hiéroglyphe et et ses variantes ainsi que l’importance de l’écrit dans la civilisation égyptienne ; la mort avec les rites funéraires et la vie après la mort, la croyance religieuse incontournable au temps des pharaons.(..)" The museum reopened again on 17 June, after 3 months of closure. Also some original ancient Egyptian artifacts have been included (statuettes, amulets, papyrus, tools of scribes). * “David Huguenin: Voyage en Égypte" [new] date: 6 November 2019 – 26 September 2020 [prolongation; was: till 5 April 2020] info: Includes a video report [2:08 mins.]. --SPAIN-- [update] g) Espacio 5.1 de IFEMA Avenida del Partenón, 5, 28042 Madrid * “Tutankhamón - La Tumba y sus Tesoros" [Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his Treasures] [new] date: 23 November 2019 – TBA [prolongation; was: till 9 May 2020] info: "A partir del 16 de Julio 2020" (reopening) [new] info: ---SWITZERLAND--- [update] a) Halle 622 by MAAG Music & Arts AG Therese-Giehse-Strasse 10, 8050 Zürich * "Tutanchamun - sein Grab und die Schätze" [Tutankhamun - His tomb and his treasures] date: 10 July 2020 - 1 November 2020 info: [new] info: German press report at --CZECH REPUBLIC-– [update] a) Národní muzeum/National Museum Václavské nám. 68, 115 79 Prague 1 * “Ríša slnka: Abú Sír v dobe stavitelov pyramíd” [Empire of the Sun: Abusir at the time of the pyramid builders] [new] date: 30 August 2020 - February 2021 [postponed; was: 30 June 2020 - 30 October 2020] [new] info: Czech press report at The opening will be on August 30 and from September 1 the exhibition will be open to the public. --------------------------------------------------- For previously listed exhibitions, see section X of the website version: The letters attached to events ["a)" etc] refer to place of these events in the website schedule. =============================================== (III) PERSONALS & SUNDRIES =============================================== (IV) READ ON THE WEB --NEWSPAPER REPORTS ONLINE--- [Next ten items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * Press report: "Größte Kulturstiftung am Ende?" "Der größten deutschen Kulturinstitution droht das Aus. Die von Bund und Ländern getragene Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz soll zerschlagen werden. Der Wissenschaftsrat empfiehlt nach dem der dpa vorliegenden Entwurf eine Auflösung der Berliner Dachorganisation von Museen und anderen kulturellen Einrichtungen. Die Vielzahl der Institutionen führten zu einer «strukturellen Überforderung» der Stiftung, heißt es im Entwurf. Einrichtungen drohten «teilweise den Anschluss an aktuelle Entwicklungen und Debatten zu verlieren, auch und insbesondere in internationaler Perspektive». (...) Das Gutachten sieht vor, vier eigenständige Organisationen zu gründen für Staatliche Museen, dann mit Institut für Musikforschung, Staatsbibliothek, Geheimes Staatsarchiv und das Ibero-Amerikanische Institut. Dafür soll es jeweils eine unabhängige Leitung mit Personal- und Budgetverwaltung geben. Erwartet wird dadurch mehr Effizienz und Eigenständigkeit bei Schwerpunkten, Forschung, Bildung." -- Other German press reports: "Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz sei handlungsunfähig, unterfinanziert und solle aufgelöst werden, sagt ein lange erwartetes Gutachten. Diese Kritik birgt eine historische Chance." "Ein Vorschlag aus der liberalen Mottenkiste, sagen die Bundes-Grünen. Die Stiftung ist nicht reformierbar, findet die Berliner FDP: Reaktionen auf die Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrats." * Press report: "Zahlen, bitte! 18.000 Mannjahre Arbeit für eine Pyramide" "In Ägypten gibt es jede Menge Pyramiden, aber auch viel Fragen. Etwa die danach, wie viele Arbeiter eigentlich wie lange mit deren Errichtung beschäftigt waren." -- Based on: Vaclav Smil, "How Many People Did it Take to Build the Great Pyramid?", in: IEEE Spectrum, vol. 57, no. 06, pp. 18-19 (2020); online version: "Herodotus, writing more than 21 centuries after the pyramid’s completion, was told that labor gangs totaling 100,000 men worked in three-month spells a year to finish the structure in 20 years. In 1974, Kurt Mendelssohn, a German-born British physicist, put the labor force at 70,000 seasonal workers and up to 10,000 permanent masons. These are large overestimates; we can do better by appealing to simple physics. (...) The grand total of the construction labor would then be some 3,300 workers. Even if we were to double that number (...), the total would be still less than 7,000 workers." * Press report: "France : ouverture du premier musée entièrement dédié à l’égyptologie" "Le Département de l’Isère a annoncé l’ouverture prochaine de son 11e musée départemental à Vif, au sud de Grenoble. Installé dans l’ancienne propriété familiale des Champollion, ce nouveau musée sera entièrement dédié à l’égyptologie — une première en France — et rendra hommage aux deux illustres frères, qui ont contribué à fonder ce champ d’études." -- Website of the Musée Champollion: -- On the Musée Champollion 2020 with some more information: * Video report: "Tadihor était-elle un personnage important de l'antiquité égyptienne ?" [2:19 mins.] "Le mobilier funéraire et les gravures sur son sarcophage de bois laissent penser que Tadihor aurait reçu des funérailles en grandes pompes, et donc qu'elle aurait pu être un personnage important en son temps." * Video report: "La nécropole de Saqqarah, aux origines de l'Égypte antique" [2:26 mins.] "Pendant plus de 3 000 ans, la vaste nécropole de Saqqarah a servi de cimetière principal à la cité antique de Memphis. Son étendue démesurée composée de tombeaux et de temples remonte aux origines du Royaume d'Égypte." * Press release of the Universität zu Köln: "Uni Köln erhält bedeutende Münzschenkung" "Das Institut für Altertumskunde der Universität zu Köln schätzt sich glücklich, über 3500 hauptsächlich griechische und römische Münzen der Sammlung Schodlok als Schenkung erhalten zu haben. (...) Durch die Schenkung wird die Anzahl der in der Universitätssammlung befindlichen Münzen aus dem Reich der Ptolemäer, d.h. von griechischen Königen in der Nachfolge Alexanders des Großen, mehr als verdoppelt; der Hauptbestand von 3800 Prägungen, die die römischen Kaiser in Alexandria veranlasst haben, vergrößert sich um fast 3000. Ganz neu treten dem Kölner Sammlungsprofil über 300 Exemplare aus der Spätzeit römischer und byzantinischer Münzprägung in Alexandria hinzu. Damit dokumentiert die Kollektion jetzt die gesamte Geldgeschichte im griechisch-römischen Ägypten über fast 1000 Jahre hin in ihren drei Hauptperioden." * Press report: "Nach dem Stillstand die Besinnung?" "Deutsche Museen sind gerade so gut besucht wie ein verregneter Strand, fehlende Touristen führen zu Millionenverlusten. Aber anders als in den USA gibt es in Deutschland einen Helfer - den Staat. (...) Ein Rundruf bei Direktorinnen und Direktoren von den größten bis zu den kleinsten Institutionen des deutschen Ausstellungsbetriebs, trifft nicht auf schrillen Alarm. Das hat auch damit zu tun, dass in den Museumsleitungen nicht das Gefühl umgeht, man werde vom Staat hängen gelassen. Die meisten habe deutliche Signale erhalten, dass Corona-Defizite kompensiert werden. Gerade im Vergleich mit den USA, wo die Kulturinstitutionen massenweise Mitarbeiter entlassen haben, weil sie nicht durch die Gesellschaft, sondern durch die Reichen finanziert werden, gibt die staatliche Kulturleistung in Deutschland Anlass zur Preisung." * Press report: "Siracusa. Lino funerario egizio del VI sec. a.C. in esposizione al Museo del Papiro" "Il Museo del Papiro 'Corrado Basile' ha riaperto al pubblico con la presentazione e l’esposizione di un reperto dell’antico Egitto di notevole interesse. Si tratta di un frammento di lino funerario egizio, ossia di bende per mummia, con scrittura in geroglifico e ieratico e decorazione figurata che si ispira a quella che conosciamo meglio come testimoniata su un supporto diverso, ossia i rotoli di papiro contenenti capitoli del Libro dei Morti." -- Website of the museum: "Lino funerario egizio del VI sec. a.C." * Press report: "Premio Ferrini a Cristian Greco direttore museo egizio" "Il Premio Beato Contardo Ferrini 2020 verrà consegnato al direttore del Museo Egizio Professore Christian Greco. Il Premio da riconoscimento letterario è tornato in veste nuova ed è ai meriti della persona." * Press report: "Naukowiec: Papirusy byly uzywane w Egipcie jeszcze w czasach arabskich" Polish report about the use of papyrus in Egypt until the 9th century AD. [Submitted by Ingrid van Sprakelaar] * Press report: "El enigma del rey Escorpión" --MISCELLANEOUS-- * New entry at the "Egypt Centre Collection" blog of Dr Ken Griffin: -- "The Woking Loan at the Egypt Centre [- guest post by Dr Dulcie Engel]" (July 4) * New entry at the digitalEpigraphy blog: -- "The updated digitalEPIGRAPHY website – An Epigraphic Survey, Harvard University, and KU Leuven Collaboration" (July 6) ============================================== (V) BOOKS & JOURNALS CORNER --NEW (PAPER) BOOK RELEASES-- * David Klotz and Andréas Stauder (eds.), Revealing, transforming, and display in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom, vol. I. (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beiheft, 12/1). De Gruyter, 2020. Hb, 265 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-068354-7. EUR 79.95 / USD 91.99 / GBP 72.50. TOC at Joshua Aaron Roberson, A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom. Enigmatic Writing in the Egyptian New Kingdom, vol. II. (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beiheft, 12/2). De Gruyter, 2020. Hb, 222 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-068366-0. EUR 79.95 / USD 91.99 / GBP 72.50. TOC at "This is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as “cryptography”) in the New Kingdom (c.1550–1070 BCE). Enigmatic writing is an extended practice of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, set against immediate decoding and towards revealing additional levels of meaning. The first volume consists of studies by the main specialists in the field. The second volume is a lexicon of all attested enigmatic signs and values." * A.R. Warfe, J.C.R. Gill, C.R. Hamilton, A.J. Pettman, D.A. Stewart (eds.), Dust, Demons and Pots. Studies in Honour of Colin A. Hope. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 289). Peeters Publishers, 2020. Hb, 783 pp. ISBN 978-90-429-4136-6. EUR 115. TOC at "This volume brings together fifty-four studies on ancient Egypt and its interconnections with neighbouring regions to celebrate the career of Colin Hope. (..)" --DIGITIZED BOOKS & ONLINE THESES-- [Next two items submitted by Michael Tilgner] * New addition to the Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) of the University of Zürich: -- Alan R. Schulman, Ceremonial Execution and Public Rewards: Some Historical Scenes on New Kingdom Private Stelae, Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany, 1988. - xxix, 223 pp., 35 figs., 6 pls. - pdf-file (8.0 MB) "The repertoire of scenes on Egyptian private stelae is relatively limited to scenes of the funerary banquet, of the deceased receiving offerings, or making them. About the reign of Thutmose IV in the New Kingdom, and lasting through the end of Dynasty 20, scenes which seemingly have nothing to do with these motifs begin to occasionally appear in the stelae repertoire: the king smiting his enemies, receiving a weapon from a god, a god’s barque carried in procession, the deceased being rewarded with gold collars or riding in his chariot, and the like. The present work attempts to discern why such scenes appear on private stelae. (...) the conclusion was reached that such representations are not merely timeless stereotypes but actually represented specific events which took place at specific points in time. Thus the stelae function on two levels simultaneously, a concrete one commemorating the original event, and an abstract one in which the scene illustrated is repeated for eternity." * Digitized books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: -- Henry George Fischer, The Orientation of Hieroglyphs. Part 1, Reversals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977. - xxxiii, 147 pp. - pdf-file (7.3 MB) -- Henry George Fischer, Egyptian Studies III: Varia Nova, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996. - xxiii, 264 pp. - pdf-file (44.2 MB) "This volume features fourteen articles on a wide range of subjects in the field of Egyptian studies, including a discussion of the various forms of sixteen different hieroglyphs." --DIGITIZED JOURNAL ARTICLES & ONLINE PAPERS-- * A new article has appeared online in Rivista del Museo Egizio [RiME] vol. 4 (2020): -- S. Polis, K. Gabler, M. Müller, N. Sojic, S. Töpfer, S. Unter, C. Greco, A. Loprieno, E. Hertel, R. Pietri, "Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt (with a 2019 Progress Report)" =============================================== (VIA) JOBS AND GRANTS --JOB OPENINGS-- * Am Departement Altertumswissenschaften der Universität Basel ist per 1. Februar 2021 oder nach Vereinbarung eine Stelle als Assistent/-in (Doktorand/-in) in Ägyptologie zu besetzen. Deadline forapplications: 22 August 2020. ----------------------------------------------------------------- For still current info about jobs and grants listed earlier, see section VIA of the website version: =============================================== (VIB) COURSES AND TRIPS ----------------------------------------------------------------- For still current info about courses and tours listed earlier, see section XI of the website version: =============================================== (VII) (MULTI)MEDIA --TV&RADIO-- [Submitted by Michael Tilgner] * German TV: -- Arte, July 11, 2020, 13:50-14:45 "Rätselhafte Hundemumien" [Tuna el-Gebel] -- Arte, July 11, 2020, 20:15-21:10 "Die Sonnenstadt der Pharaonen" [Heliopolis] -- Arte, July 11, 2020, 21:10-22:05 "Ägyptens versunkene Hafenstadt - Ein Mythos taucht auf" --ONLINE AUDIO&VIDEO-- * Video [60 mins.] of a lecture at Oxford University, recorded by the Egypt Exploration Society: -- "Transformations of Objects in New Kingdom Nubia: Local Consumption and Demand in a Colonial Context", by Rennan Lemos (July 1, 2020) * Video [50 mins.] of recent Zoom-lectures at the Annual Conference 2020 of the Egypt Centre, Swansea: -- "Provisions for the Dead in Ancient Egypt: Conservation at Cardiff University", by Phil Parkes, Ashley Lingle, and Eleanor Evans (July 7, 2020) * Video [50 mins.] of a lecture at IFAO: -- "Débuts d’une nouvelle enquête sur les origines du temple d’Amon-Rê", by Luc Gabolde (28 June 2020) * A powerpoint presentation (PPTX-file, 182 MB) of a lecture at the Ägyptologisches Institut/Ägyptisches Museum Georg Steindorff, Leipzig: -- "Statte Dein Haus im Gottesacker gut aus. Dokumentarisches zum Bau von Privatgräbern", by Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert (2 July 2020) [You will need MS Office; the freeware LibreOffice will not work (audio problems). AKE] =============================================== (VIII) WEBSITES =============================================== =============================================== For information about lectures and exhibitions that appeared in earlier NEWS issues, but is still current, see sections IX and X of the website version of EEF NEWS at URL: 'Updates' refer to these sections also. Of items marked with (#), you can request from me (ayma@tip.nl) the often longer announcement on which my summary was based. Items marked with (&) will have appeared on the EEF, but are here summarized for people who only read the NEWS, via friends or via the website. It is always wise to contact the organizers of lectures etc. for confirmation, in case of (last minute) changes. Also note that registration for conferences and symposiums often is months in advance. Students will need an I.D. to get the discounts offered. Besides items dealing with Ancient Egypt (AE), also items on Sudanese archaeology and Libyan studies, within the AE time frame, are traditionally included. This list (or a part thereof) is not meant for distribution to any other public channel than the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum nor is this list (or part thereof) to be posted without permission on any website other than the EEF NEWS website. Copyright 2020, A.K. Eyma =============================================== ===============================================