Egypt’s Greatest Treasure

Studies in Egyptology, Museology and Archaeology in Honour of Wafaa T. El-Saddik

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Es handelt sich um die erste und bislang einzige interkulturelle Festschrift, die zu Ehren einer langjährigen Kairener Museumsdirektorin von mehr als 60 Autor:innen gemeinsam verfasst wurde. Dabei reicht die thematische Spannbreite der Beiträge von der Museologie über die Archäologie und …

Die Wahl des koptisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Ägyptens vom 8. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert durch das Los und andere Methoden

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The election of a suitable successor to a deceased patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt always marks an important turning point in the everyday life of this oriental church. Since 1957, its head has been chosen by lot …

Von Panopolis bis ans ,Ende der Welt‘

Festschrift für Klaus Peter Kuhlmann. Zum 80. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden und Weggefährten

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The fifth volume in the Studia Panopolitana series (Occasional Paper 5) is a festschrift presented to Klaus Peter Kuhlmann on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The articles by friends and associates who accompanied Klaus P. Kuhlmann during his four …

Die Sammlung Kiseleff im Martin-von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg

Teil I: Ägyptische und koptische Antiken

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In 1982, in the 400th year of the second founding of the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Alexander Kiseleff (1919–2002) donated a large part of his private collection of Greek and Egyptian antiquities to the University of Würzburg, eventually bequeathing the …

Ägyptens schöne Gesichter

Die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual

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How do mummy masks act? This question is the starting point for the present investigation, consciously aiming towards a new perspective of research. In contrast to the modern point of view, mummy masks cannot simply be regarded as inanimate objects, …

The Textile Centre Akhmim-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity and Change in Society, Religion, Industry and Trade

Proceedings of the international conference organised by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in cooperation with Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Göttingen, 28–30 September 2017

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The fourth occasional paper in the Studia Panopolitana series focuses on Akhmîm-Panopolis as one of Egypt’s major textile centres. The volume contains the proceedings of the international conference »The Textile Centre Akhmîm-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity …

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 3: Babylonien, Urartu und die östlichen Gebiete

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Historical geography is one of the most important disciplines which allow a reconstruction of the history of the Ancient Near East. There are principally the cuneiform sources which open the access to the numerously attested geographical names. The present volumes …

Reise durch Nubien – Fotos einer Expedition um 1900

Travels in Nubia – Photographs of an expedition around 1900

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Nubia around 1900, sunken worlds on rediscovered photographs from the Egyptian Museum Berlin; in the course of indexing the museum's photographic archive, 340 photographs from an expedition to the region between the first and second Nile cataracts have reappeared, a …

Reproduktion und Bild

Zur Wiederholung und Vervielfältigung von Reliefs in römischer Zeit

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The ancient (re-)production of images seen through a cultural-historical perspective is at the heart of this study, which, by the means of case studies, examines the specific situational conditions and various influences concerning the production of relief images in the …

Shepheard’s of Cairo

The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel

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The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual …

Death and Burial in the Near East from Roman to Islamic Times

Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt

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This book is based on a German-Arab colloquium held in Amman in September 2013, where current excavation and research results on death and burial from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt were presented. For the first time, Arab and Near Eastern …

Thronanspruch und Thronbehauptung

Studien zur Regierungszeit Ptolemaios’ VIII.

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The long reign of Ptolemy VIII, who ruled over fifty years from 170 to 116 BC is an era of irreversible decline for the Egyptian kingdom. This sovereign was confronted with serious economic, social and political problems and had from …

Zur Kur an den Nil

Die Ägyptenreise von Max und Otto Meyerhof im Winter 1900/01

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„Zur Kur an den Nil“ is the commented edition of a travelogue from winter 1900/01 written by the German-Jewish Ophthalmologist and Orientalist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945). It was because of health reasons that Meyerhof, together with his younger relative Otto Meyerhof …

Petrie’s 1907/08 Dig Season Near Suhag

Part II: The corpus of finds – 1. Ceramic vessels and sherds

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Studia Panopolitana, Occasional Paper 3 ist der zweite Band einer Serie von Beiträgen, die sich mit den Ausgrabungen des britischen Archäologen W.M. Flinders Petrie auf mehreren Fundplätzen nahe der Stadt Sūhāgˇ auf dem Westufer gegenüber von Aḫmīm beschäftigt. Innerhalb eines …

Petrie’s 1907/08 Dig Season Near Suhag

Part I: The photographic record

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Studia Panopolitana, Occasional Paper 2 ist der erste gedruckte Band der Studia Panopolitana. Gleichzeitig eröffnet er eine Serie von Beiträgen, die sich mit den Ausgrabungen des britischen Archäologen W. M. Flinders Petrie auf mehreren Fundplätzen nahe der Stadt Sūhāgˇ auf …

Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit

Teil 2. Zentralassyrien und benachbarte Gebiete, Ägypten und die arabische Halbinsel

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Historical geography is one of the most important disciplines which allow a reconstruction of the history of the Ancient Near East. There are principally the cuneiform sources which open the access to the numerous attested geographical names. The present volumes …

Aline und ihre Kinder

Mumien aus dem römerzeitlichen Ägypten

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Richard von Kaufmann entdeckte im März 1892 ein römerzeitliches Familiengrab im Gebiet Fayum (Ägypten), in dem acht Mumien zusammen mit wenigen Beigaben lagen. Zu einer von diesen gehört das weit bekannte Mumienporträt einer Frau namens Aline. Anhand neuer CT-Untersuchungen der …

Zwei kirchliche Palastanlagen in Hulwan aus umayyadischer Zeit

Grabungen der Egyptian Antiquities Organization in den Jahren 1948 bis 1949

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The book deals with two ecclesiastical palaces. They were excavated by the Egyptian antiquities service in the years 1948/49 and they are dated according to the sources to the end of the late antiquity (ca. A.D. 700). They belong thus …

Das Wort im Bild

Untersuchung zu den Ikonographien von Mönchen und Märtyrern in Ägypten und zu ihren Grundlagen in der koptischen Hagiographie

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In the Coptic Church, numerous pictorial representations with Christian content attest their deep significance for the Coptic faith. In order to give expression to individual motifs, individual passages from various texts were transformed into works of representational art, and thus …

Die Beduinen der Mamluken

Beduinen im politischen Leben Ägyptens im 8./14. Jahrhundert

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During the fourteenth century, the Bedouins (ʿarab) of Egypt experienced a significant increase in power. The Bedouins were the group with the largest military and political power in the Mamluk Empire, after the ruling Mamluks themselves. This study offers the …