Egypt
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
- Lecture By Otto Schaden On Kv63
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly shared her notes from the latest Mummification Museum lecture again. Otto opened the lecture by reminding us that whatever KV63 finally turns out to be it will always be the first tomb discovered since the...
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Discoveries And Restoration At Karnak
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) At Karnak a new Ptolemaic bath house has been discovered. Jane says that there will be a lecture about it at the Mummification Museum in the next few weeks, so hopefully she will be able to report on it for us. Jane has also...
- Research In The Tombs Of Harwa Tt37 And Pabasa Tt279
Jane Akshar has updated her Luxor News Blog with a summary of a recent lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor. Dr Silvia Einaudi lectured on the theme of Researches in the tombs of Harwa TT37 and Pabasa TT279 on the 12th November 2006: "Harwa lived...
- Season Ends At Kv63
http://www.kv-63.com/index.html The KV63 website has been updated with the following posts: First, a post on Otto Schaden's Dig Diary: "Botanists Ahmed Fahmy and Rim Hamdy were out earlier this month to inspect the garlands and floral collars from...
Egypt
Mummification Museum lecture: The Opening of the Mouth ritual in the tomb of Harwa TT37
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
The Opening of the Mouth ritual in the tomb of Harwa TT37: Miriam Ayad's report.
This lecture was a serious treat and I look forward to Miriam publishing her work. That book is going to be one of the classics to keep on your shelves. She started with a back ground to the Opening of the Mouth ceremony and the work she has already done in various tombs. You may find this link helpful http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/religion/wpr.html and she referred to Otto’s work continually through the lecture. Otto 1960. E. Otto, Das Ägyptische Mundoffnungsritual, Wiesbaden, 1960
The Opening of the Mouth ritual could be performed on a cult statue, a mummy or a temple. In 1960 E. Otto published examples of 75 scenes which could appear either as text, a scene or both. The ‘sen’ priest appears wearing a leopard skin and using an adze, he also appears presenting incense or pouring libations to be ritually purify the mummy.
The various scenes, using Otto’s numbering, are 2-7 and 57-75 are about ritual purification and 26 and 17 about opening of the mouth.
- Lecture By Otto Schaden On Kv63
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Jane has kindly shared her notes from the latest Mummification Museum lecture again. Otto opened the lecture by reminding us that whatever KV63 finally turns out to be it will always be the first tomb discovered since the...
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Discoveries And Restoration At Karnak
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) At Karnak a new Ptolemaic bath house has been discovered. Jane says that there will be a lecture about it at the Mummification Museum in the next few weeks, so hopefully she will be able to report on it for us. Jane has also...
- Research In The Tombs Of Harwa Tt37 And Pabasa Tt279
Jane Akshar has updated her Luxor News Blog with a summary of a recent lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor. Dr Silvia Einaudi lectured on the theme of Researches in the tombs of Harwa TT37 and Pabasa TT279 on the 12th November 2006: "Harwa lived...
- Season Ends At Kv63
http://www.kv-63.com/index.html The KV63 website has been updated with the following posts: First, a post on Otto Schaden's Dig Diary: "Botanists Ahmed Fahmy and Rim Hamdy were out earlier this month to inspect the garlands and floral collars from...