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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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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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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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Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 33-47, January 2023., 2023 Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the offence characteristics and motivations for revenge filicides. Revenge filicide is an act where one parent kills their own offspring for retribution to hurt and upset the other parent. The cases of 20 revenge filicide murderers (14 male and six female) were analysed to determine the motivations and ...
Melanie Moen, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
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Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 650-672, June 2022., 2022 In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 159-184, May 2022., 2022 This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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THE POZO MORO RELIEFS (CHINCHILLA, SPAIN): A MEDITERRANEAN HERO BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 250-267, August 2021., 2021 Summary At Pozo Moro, archaeologists discovered the oldest series of architectural and sculptural remains currently known in Iberian culture. It is traditionally assumed that they were part of a single ten‐meters‐high tower that was built – and immediately collapsed – in the late sixth century BC, some fifty years before an Iberian necropolis ...
Jorge García Cardiel +1 more
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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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