We're already looking ahead to 2022👀, a big year for Egyptology. Sure, there's #Tutankhamun and the #RosettaStone, but also so much more!
Take a look at what we're planning and the topics we'll be unpacking with your help next year🤩
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‘Elephant’ folios, ancient fascinations and two-hundred-year-old travel permits. From the British Library to the banks of the Nile, head behind the scenes of @chrisnaunton's ‘Egyptologists’ Notebooks’: https://t.co/pf9hmK3Wgg
***STOP PRESS*** BOOK LAUNCH. Weds 30 September, 7 pm, FREE to register. Further details / to book: https://t.co/8TdxvbR94t Join me & picture researcher SALLY NICHOLLS for an informal chat about the book and how it came about. Bring a drink, and help us to celebrate publication!
Our colleague Raúl Sánchez @UAHes just published a volume on the figure of the ka-servant in the Old Kingdom. His comments on this figure beyond the religious sphere bring about new ideas on the OK social, economic, and legal domains. https://t.co/oxRiXP1YfV @m_antiguo@aetwitte
Today I just want to share with you this beatiful fragment of a cartonnage from the Petrie Museum (UC45904)
Isis and Nephthys flanking the Djed pillar.
Greco-Roman Period
Photo: https://t.co/E2rgJtDLZg
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Funerary statuettes (Dynasty XVIII - Musée du Louvre)
Isis (kite) revived Osiris' body ...we know.
Also a mourner stands at the feet of the corpse..
Read "Isis the mourner at the feet of Osiris. A matter of sex?" (https://t.co/gaiPGPdYxS)
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Egyptian art reflects the different attitude of common mourners from that of the two professional mourners in the role of Isis and Nephthys.
For knowing more: https://t.co/Ax0Y72xOKA
Funeralsof TT175 (anonymous).
Photo: https://t.co/4a7KfjOL7w
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Goddess Nephthys with solar disk.
For knowing more about Isis and Nephthys and the solar iconography click here: https://t.co/k7SVoqJJSO
Fragment of coffin of Peteamu. Dynasty XXIII-XXV. MUT, Inv. 1152
Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo
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The Egyptian mourning rite recalls the death and resurrection of Osiris. Isis as a kite put over Osiris, gave him the breath of life and virility back.
Ostracon with Isis and Nephthys-kites.
Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo
MUT (Museum der Universität Tübingen)
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Friends Down Under! Egypt’s Lost Pyramid aired on @SBS on Sunday 16 August and is now available for catch-up: https://t.co/eJqLKjxfXg To celebrate I’ve posted my recent lecture on the subject to YouTube: https://t.co/r2466xehwL Enjoy! #egyptology#archaeology#pyramid#dahshur