Egypt
Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
A really good piece, putting the label into its Abydos context. With photos and illustrations.
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial...
- Rest In Peace, Seti
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the early alert to this article. On the western side of the Nile, on the edge of the low desert, the ancient Upper Egyptian town of Abydos spreads on a site of over eight square kilometres....
- Abydos Lecture Dr Matthew Adams
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Haremhab: The General Who Became King
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be ending their Haremhab: The General Who Became King exhibition on July 4, 2011. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Title Fragment of wall painting from the Tomb of Sebekhotpe Period New Kingdom Dynasty...
Egypt
Object Biography #2: A label of King Djer (Acc. no. 6763a)
Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
A really good piece, putting the label into its Abydos context. With photos and illustrations.
This small (1.8 x 1.9 cm) piece of incised bone doesn’t look like much, but it comes from one of Pharaonic Egypt’s most hallowed places. The Umm el-Qaab (Arabic for ‘Mother of Pots’) area of Abydos was the burial place of the first kings of Egypt. Abydos was sacred to later Egyptians as the cult centre of the Osiris, the god of the dead and of rebirth. Many hoped to make a pilgrimage to the site and those that did left offerings, evidenced by millions of pottery vessels – giving the area its modern Arabic name.
From as early as the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055-1650 BC), one of the early royal tombs was believed to be the actual burial place of Osiris.
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial...
- Rest In Peace, Seti
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the early alert to this article. On the western side of the Nile, on the edge of the low desert, the ancient Upper Egyptian town of Abydos spreads on a site of over eight square kilometres....
- Abydos Lecture Dr Matthew Adams
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...
- Kings Tomb Found At Abydos
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania's mission to Abydos have found the tomb of an early 13th Dynasty King Sobekhotep. The tomb containing a massive quartzite sarcophagus as well as pieces of canopic jars and a stele. The tomb appears...
- Haremhab: The General Who Became King
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be ending their Haremhab: The General Who Became King exhibition on July 4, 2011. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Title Fragment of wall painting from the Tomb of Sebekhotpe Period New Kingdom Dynasty...