Related papers
Ahhotep’s Metal Ship Models
Shelley Wachsmann
Wachsmann, S., 2022. Ahhotep’s Metal Ship Models. In The Treasure of Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1500 BCE). G. Miniaci and P. Lacovara, eds. Croydon, Golden House Publications: 279-293. Abstract: Two metal ship models, one made of gold and the other of silver were found in the tomb of Ahhotep (I) together with a compatible four-wheel conveyance. The models remain unusual chronologically as well as in terms of their materials. The gold model represents a typical wood-planked Nilotic watercraft. The silver model appears to replicate a ten-oared Minoan/Cycladic vessel, best compared to the rowed ship in the ship-procession scene portrayed on the Miniature Frieze from the West House in Akrotiri on Thera. Additional support for this hypothesis comes from evidence for a long tradition of metal ship models in the Aegean. The silver model may be a copy of an actual ship or of a model of that type of watercraft. The models, as well as the accompanying carriage, are best explained in the context of Ahhotep’s tomb as booty captured during the attacks and conquest of Avaris (Tell el Dab‘a) by her sons, Kamose and Ahmose. If correct, this interpretation indicates a Minoan presence at Tell el Dab‘a during Hyksos rule. The silver crew that row the gold model, but which are not original to it, presume a third, now lost, larger silver ship model.
View PDFchevron_right
Daggers and Axes for the Queen: Considering Ahhotep's Weapons in their Cultural Context
Ellen Morris
The Treasure of the Egyptian Queen Ahhotep and International Relations at the Turn of the Middle Bronze Age (1550 B.C., eds. G. Miniaci and P. Lacovara. Middle Kingdom Studies 11, London: Golden House Productions, 165-186. , 2022
Queen Ahhotep took three daggers, four axes, and nine miniature axes with her to the grave. Two of the weapons in this otherworldly arsenal-an axe and a dagger-were stunning and bear testament to a robust artistic interconnection that linked the early Eighteenth Dynasty court to the high culture of the Minoan and Mycenaean world. Because of their beauty, these objects are often written about in isolation. This chapter places these two ceremonial weapons in dialogue with the entire assemblage of the queen's weapons, with other elements of her grave goods, with gender politics, and with the mortuary culture of Egypt and Nubia in the Second Intermediate Period and early Eighteenth Dynasty. When taken together, the weapons provide strong evidence that the queen had been married to Kamose, that her court was well acquainted with Pan-Grave military culture, and that in ancient Egypt (as in so many other contexts) times of war offered women unprecedented opportunities to exercise typically masculine authority as they kept the home fires burning.
View PDFchevron_right
Mariette at Dra Abu el-Naga and the tomb of Neferhotep: a mid 13th dynasty rishi coffin (?)
Gianluca Miniaci
Egitto e Vicino Oriente 31, 2008
View PDFchevron_right
The Collapse of Faience Figurine Production at the End of the Middle Kingdom: Reading the History of an Epoch between Postmodernism and Grand Narrative
Gianluca Miniaci
2014
The aim of the article is to trace the history of faience figurines in late Middle Kingdom Egypt, following a metanarrative level of synthesis. Moving from one of the most visible changes in the course of history, the turn from Modernism to Postmodernism, the article defines a key to read the path of faience figurine production from their appearance in the late Middle Kingdom to their disuse at the end of the Second Intermediate Period: changes in the pattern of society correspond to the production of a different material culture and to the abandonment of previous perceptions. Faience figurines represent a diagnostic category of objects signatures is here used to supply a different interpretation for the history Second Intermediate Period Egypt, integrating microhistories with bigger a combination of Postmodernism and Grand Narratives approaches.
View PDFchevron_right
Ahhotep’s Silver Ship Model: The Minoan Context
Shelley Wachsmann
Wachsmann, S., 2010. Ahhotep’s Silver Ship Model: The Minoan Context. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 2(3): 31-41.
View PDFchevron_right
Through change and tradition: the rise of Thebes during the Second Intermediate Period
Gianluca Miniaci
P. Buzi, D. Picchi, M. Zecchi (eds.), Aegyptiaca et Coptica. Studi in onore di Sergio Pernigotti, 2011
This article attempts a historical, archaeological and social analysis of the rule of Thebes at the end of the Second Intermediate Period, through the diachronic survey of the funerary culture. At the end of the Middle Kingdom, the northern tradition was still predominant all over Egypt, but in the period following, all strata of Egyptian society were subject to embryological changes and transformations involving mainly the middle class and the areas far from the centre of power. The apparent sudden rise of innovations, including the appearance of the rishi-coffin and new assemblages of funerary objects noticeable at the end of the Second Intermediate Period, seems to have originated from the progressive contact of the northern tradition practised by the ruling class of the late 13th dynasty with the local background culture of Thebes.
View PDFchevron_right
The world of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC): Contributions on archaeology, art, religion and written texts – vol. I
Wolfram Grajetzki, Gianluca Miniaci
Middle Kingdom Studies 1, 2015
Table of Contents Masahiro Baba, Ken Yazawa: Burial Assemblages of the Late Middle Kingdom, Shaft-tombs in Dahshur North Bettina Bader: Stone Objects from the Late Middle Kingdom Settlement at Tell el-Daba Helmut Brandl: Late Middle Kingdom or Late Period? Re-Considering the “Realistic” Statue Head, Munich ÄS 1622 Simon Connor: The Statue of the Steward Nemtyhotep ( Berlin ÄM 15700) and some Considerations about Royal and Private Portrait under Amenemhat III Biri Fay: Thoughts on the Sculpture of Sesostris I and Amenemhat II, Inspired by the Meket-re Study Day Biri Fay: London BM EA 288 (1237) - a Cloaked Individual Biri Fay, Rita E. Freed, Thomas Schelper, Friederike Seyfried: Neferusobek Project (I) Rita E. Freed: A Torso gets a Name: an Additional Statue of the Vizier Mentuhotep? José M. Galán, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras: Three Burials of the Seventeenth Dynasty in Dra Abu El-Naga Wolfram Grajetzki: A Middle Kingdom Stela from Koptos (Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove HA282043) Zoltán Horváth: Hathor and her Festivals at Lahun Alexander Ilin-Tomich: King Seankhibra and the Middle Kingdom Appeal to the Living Alejandro Jiménez Serrano: A unique Funerary Complex in Qubbet el-Hawa for Two Governors of the Late Twelfth Dynasty Renata Landgráfová: In the Realm of Reputation: Private Life in Middle Kingdom Auto/biographies Eva Lange: The So-called Governors' Cemetery at Bubastis and Provincial Elite, Tombs in the Nile Delta: State and Perspectives of Research David Lorand: The Archetype of Kingship Who Senwosret I claimed to be, How and Why? Antonio J. Morales: Tracing Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts Traditions at Dahshur Miriam Müller: New Approaches to the Study of Households in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Egypt Melinda G. Nelson-Hurst: The (social) House of Khnumhotep Rune Nyord: Scribes of the Gods in the Coffin Texts Mohamed Gamal Rashed: The Significance of the Hieroglyph ‘The Egg with the Young Bird Inside Patricia Rigault: The Canopic Chest of Khakheperreseneb/Iy - Louvre E 17108 Danijela Stefanovic, Helmut Satzinger: I am a Nbt-pr, and I am Independent Angela M. J. Tooley: Garstang's El Arabah Tomb E.1
View PDFchevron_right
Bader2023 ICE Beyond Politics - New Developments in Second Intermediate Period Archaeology in Egypt (ca. 1800–1550 BC)
Bettina Bader
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Egyptologists ICE XII, 2023
https://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/catalogue/9782724709537/ In 2015 the project Beyond Politics: Material Culture in Second Intermediate Period Egypt and Nubia1 was initiated to assess archaeological finds in their own right, independently from the historical, written sources. This approach was born out of necessity because the majority of archaeological finds do not bear dynastic affiliations. This is particularly true of the non-élite strata of ancient society. The difficulties would not be alleviated even if such data were more frequent, because in the Second Intermediate Period (SIP) a) the sequence of pharaohs is not completely preserved2 b) the reconstruction is not agreed upon3 and c) numerous archaeological SIP sites do not include any king’s names. Most objects discussed here lack inscriptions or names, to demonstrate the complications and the need to add archaeological interpretations to obtain greater insight into the reconstruction of the lives of past people in the SIP. This is not to say that texts should be ignored, but the full value of archaeological finds should be used to add knowledge of the past.
View PDFchevron_right
Scarab and seal amulet production in the early eighteenth dynasty: an analysis of the materials, technology, and surface characteristics to determine seal amulet workshops
Stephanie Boonstra
2019
Seal amulets, particularly those in the form of scarab beetles but also cowroids and scaraboids, were the most popular form of amulet in ancient Egypt. They have been comprehensively studied by experts (including Ward (1978), Tufnell (1984), Keel (1995), and Ben-Tor (2007)) who have focussed on the periods of the early second millennium BCE and/or the Levant. This study builds upon their decades of prior research on seal amulets to utilise and amend previous typologies in order to fill the chronological gap in comprehensive seal amulet studies beyond the first half of the second millennium BCE. This study analyses the materials and technology, as well as surface characteristics of 876 seal amulets from seven sites dating to the early Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt in order to identify ‘typological’ workshops (those based on shared characteristics) and ‘material’ workshops (archaeological evidence of production) of the seal amulets of the period. The organisation, output, and influences...
View PDFchevron_right
Ahmose(-Sapair) in Dra Abu el-Naga North
José M . Galán
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 2017
Prince Ahmose-Sapair was worshipped soon after his death and regarded as a memorable member of the royal family in Thebes for around five centuries. While his ancestry, remembrance and worship have been the subject of several studies by C. Vandersleyen and others, the location of his tomb has not been discussed in depth, despite the fact that it appears to be a significant aspect in his posthumous cult. This matter is hereby addressed, reexamining the data from earlier excavations and in the light of recent discoveries made by the Spanish mission working in Dra Abu el-Naga North, southwest of the open courtyard of the tomb chapel of Djehuty (TT 11). The archaeological context becomes significant in the analysis of each document and in the overall appraisal of their complexity. It will be argued that Ahmose-Sapair must have been buried in Dra Abu el-Naga North, only a few metres southwest of TT 11, contrary to what has been assumed since Winlock's 1924 article.
View PDFchevron_right