Egypt
- New Book: Tt176. The Tomb Chapel Of Userhat
Golden House Publications By Bram Calcoen in collaboration with Christiane Müller-Hazenbos. TT176. The Tomb Chapel of Userhat ISBN 978-1906137274 34 pages + 23 b/w plates; 4 colour plates, paperback, A4 (March 2012) This is the publication of the Theban...
- Travel: Egyptian Passage
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- More Re New Nebamun Gallery At The British Museum
Huliq.com The tomb-paintings were acquired by the Museum in the 1820s and were constantly on display until the late 1990s. Since then, the fragile wall-paintings have been meticulously conserved, securing them for at least the next fifty years. The project...
- New Egyptian Gallery At The British Museum To Open In Winter
Art Daily This is very exciting news. The Nebamun paintings are famous for their delicate beauty, the best known of which is shown to the right. To see more of the Nebamun paintings go to the British Museum Collection Database and type in "Nebamun". To...
- Daily Photo - The Temple Of Beit Al-wali, New Kalabsha
Still lurking on Lake Nasser (mainly because I was in the file to find the Qasr Ibrim photos), here are images of Beit al-Wali. New Kalabsha is just to the south of Aswan, which can be visited as a morning/day trip from Aswan. A number of monuments rescued...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Tomb of Pennut
The Nubian monuments on Lake Nasser are well described in Jocelyn Gohary's "Guide to the Nubian Monuments on Lake Nasser" (AUC 1998). Gohary introduces the tomb of Pennut as follows: "After rather a surfeit of temples, the delightful little tomb of Pennut (sometimes transliterated from the hieroglyphs as Penne), comems as a welcome change. It is a small rock-cut tomb belongoing to a high official from the time of Ramesses VI (1141-1133 BC) and was moved during the UNESCO Campaign from its original location at Aniba, forty kilometers to the south of its present site at New Amada".
Inscriptions in the tomb describe Pennut as "Deputy of Wawat, Chief of the Quarries, Steward of Horus, Lord of Miam". His wife Takha was a priestess of in the Temple of Horus at Miam.
The tomb consists of an offering chapel over an underocrated burial chamber. The offering chapel is small, and the decorations are in some cases quite badly damaged. Gohary says that publication of the tomb in 1937 shows that the paintings were virtually intact at that time, whereas now only half of the images survive. The paintings show scenes from Pennut's life.
Inscriptions in the tomb describe Pennut as "Deputy of Wawat, Chief of the Quarries, Steward of Horus, Lord of Miam". His wife Takha was a priestess of in the Temple of Horus at Miam.
The tomb consists of an offering chapel over an underocrated burial chamber. The offering chapel is small, and the decorations are in some cases quite badly damaged. Gohary says that publication of the tomb in 1937 shows that the paintings were virtually intact at that time, whereas now only half of the images survive. The paintings show scenes from Pennut's life.
- New Book: Tt176. The Tomb Chapel Of Userhat
Golden House Publications By Bram Calcoen in collaboration with Christiane Müller-Hazenbos. TT176. The Tomb Chapel of Userhat ISBN 978-1906137274 34 pages + 23 b/w plates; 4 colour plates, paperback, A4 (March 2012) This is the publication of the Theban...
- Travel: Egyptian Passage
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- More Re New Nebamun Gallery At The British Museum
Huliq.com The tomb-paintings were acquired by the Museum in the 1820s and were constantly on display until the late 1990s. Since then, the fragile wall-paintings have been meticulously conserved, securing them for at least the next fifty years. The project...
- New Egyptian Gallery At The British Museum To Open In Winter
Art Daily This is very exciting news. The Nebamun paintings are famous for their delicate beauty, the best known of which is shown to the right. To see more of the Nebamun paintings go to the British Museum Collection Database and type in "Nebamun". To...
- Daily Photo - The Temple Of Beit Al-wali, New Kalabsha
Still lurking on Lake Nasser (mainly because I was in the file to find the Qasr Ibrim photos), here are images of Beit al-Wali. New Kalabsha is just to the south of Aswan, which can be visited as a morning/day trip from Aswan. A number of monuments rescued...