Egypt
University of Melbourne
With photos
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Egypt
Exhibition: Text and Textiles
University of Melbourne
With photos
Rare Greek papyrus texts and Coptic textiles from Egypt form the basis of a dramatic exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art that gives a fascinating insight into ancient lifestyles. Katrina Raymond reports.
Papyrus fragments discovered at Oxyrhynchus, a site in Upper Egypt, include the first book of Thucydides and other texts as well as private accounts, receipts and personal letters. An extraordinary declaration concerns the sale of an eight-year-old slave girl without blemish apart from epilepsy and leprosy.
The papyrus texts and the Coptic textiles that once belonged to elaborately adorned items of clothing worn in the time of Christian Egypt, during the fourth to seventh centuries, will be on display at the Potter until April.
The ancient texts were donated to the University of Melbourne in 1901 and 1922 by the Egyptian Exploration Society, London UK.
- Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose To Go On Display At The Brooklyn
Art Daily Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most important funerary...
- Oxford University Wants Help Decoding Egyptian Papyri
BBC News Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of images have gone on display on a website which encourages armchair archaeologists to help catalogue...
- Recognising The Contribution Of The Ees To Nubian History
The Egypt Exploration Society On Wednesday 13 May the Society hosted a fascinating lecture by Joost Hagen, a doctoral student at Leiden University in The Netherlands, on ‘A dossier of one Arabic and four Coptic letters found at Qasr Ibrim (AD 758-60)’....
- Online Exhibition: Diversity In The Desert
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Thanks to the What's New in Papyrology blog for the link to the online exhibtion Diversity in the Desert, Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt. This is an excellently presented and informative website, linking...
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Lxxi (online Preview)
What's New in Papyrology The following post comes from the above blog focusing on “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc”. If this field is of interest, this is a very good site to bookmark. Saturday,...