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THE DOGS IN THREE THEBAN PRIVATE TOMBS [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2017 (En) In ancient Egypt, it was known that dogs were considered as ones of several Canidae. Since predynastic period, dogs were the earliest animals to be known and pictured.
Magda Abdalla
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Keftiu in context: Theban tomb-paintings as a historical source [PDF]
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2001 It is generally asserted that the representations of Aegeans in Theban private tombs cannot be regarded as a reliable historical source, since the gift‐bearers of this independent region were depicted by Egyptian artists as tributaries. The present paper is an attempt to test the validity of this orthodoxy from the Egyptological perspective.
Panagiotopoulos, Diamantis
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The incense distribution scene from TT 39 – redistribution of economic goods to Deir el-Bahari and other locations in Western Thebes [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021 Incense was an essential part of temple rituals during the New Kingdom. A relief scene of redistribution of this economic good, carved in the hall of the Theban tomb of Puimra (TT 39), a Second Priest of Amun in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, helps to ...
Jesus Trello Espada
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Dorothy Mackay: A Forgotten Female Pioneer in Archaeology [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2023 In 2022, the author of this paper came across four letters regarding epigraphic documentation of some elite tombs in the Theban necropolis, Egypt, written by Dorothy Mackay and addressed to Alan H.
Kaczanowicz, Marta
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The myth of the War of the Seven and Pausanias’ educational topography [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2020 The article examines the monuments of Thebes mentioned by Pausanias and related to the story of Seven against Thebes. It is claimed that these monuments were a part of the local educational practice, which reflected the Theban mythical history and ...
Andrej Mozhajsky
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Dancing for the Dead: muu Dancers in Egyptian New Kingdom Scenes
Eikón Imago, 2022 Muu dancers are one of the most common elements in the funerary processions represented in the private Theban tombs of the New Kingdom, especially in the 18th dynasty.
Miriam Bueno Guardia
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What an artist saw. Tracing the local iconographic tradition for the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021 An unusual iconographic motif—a fringed piece of linen—depicted in the Chapel of Hatshepsut, part of the queen’s temple at Deir el-Bahari, is examined in this paper as an illustration of the interest, well attested in Hatshepsut’s reign, in past artistic
Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska
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Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2023 The Valley of the Kings (KV) is a UNESCO world heritage site with more than thirty tombs that have been opened. Since the first tombs were constructed, at least 24 historical flash flood events have been identified, each of which has contributed to the ...
Ahmed Sallam +3 more
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THE FAMILY OF AHMOSE, THE OWNER OF THEBAN TOMB 224 [NEW DATA] [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2023 عائلة إعح-مس ،صاحب المقبرة الطيبية 224 [AR] طالما بنيت الحضارة الإنسانية على أساس الأسرة- فقد تكونت الأسرة النواة من الزوج والزوجة والأطفال. أما
Nelli Boraei
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Clay funerary figurines from tombs MMA 1151 and MMA 1152 in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 A significant number of clay ushebtis comes from two Middle Kingdom tombs MMA 1151 and 1152 investigated by a Polish team in Western Thebes. The funerary figurines belong to a later phase of tomb reuse in the first millennium BC.
Marta Kaczanowicz
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