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Travelling to the UK for a conference in a few months... frustratingly a lot of museums I haven't visited (yet) are barely reachable by public transport.
It's a minor issue, though! I'm very excited to go and meet some colleagues I have not seen in a long time.
I might also add a few photographs from my previous travels in the coming months to this blog as I am currently sorting through them :)
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Non-exhaustive list of museum websites
(that I use + hosting databases with Egyptian objects. Feel free to add onto this list, I probably missed a lot)
The BIG one: The global Egyptian museum where other institutions add their stuff http://globalegyptianmuseum.org
For European Collections: Europeana (plus API endpoint, which you have to register for)
And now onto (more regular) museums:
The MET and their API
Cleveland and their API
LACMA
Turin
Baltimore, Walters and their API
Louvre and their API
British Museum
Staatliche Museen Berlin (you have to filter by collection)
Papyrus database Berlin
N'tl Museums Scotland
Petrie Collection
RPM Hildesheim
Rijksmuseum and API
KHM Vienna
Papyrussammlung Vienna
Nt'l Museum Tokyo
Penn Museum Philadelphia
Brooklyn Museum
Glyptothek Kopenhagen
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a lot of anti-historian stuff comes across like “i want history to be simple and i am suspicious of people who tell me it’s not” and this is a thing you see from people on any place on the political spectrum
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And here's a reference to the lemma of rn-nfr in the thesaurus because my posts get eaten by tumblr if I include links:
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/lemma/94780, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: 11/14/2023)
The good name
As this has come up occasionally - what were Egyptian names like, what were Egyptians called... I've just looked through pictures I took at museums and noticed that I do have a few nice examples where peoples "good names" are given.
The first is a stela from Akhmim, dating to the Old Kingdom, which shows a man called wsr-mjn (Usermin) in front of an offering table (left side). His name is given in the upper line with the offering formula and then again with his title Hm-nTr (priest) in the middle column. In front of him there's another name: His rn-nfr, his good name - which was Wedja. This would have possibly been a name he would have been called in life, similar to a nickname. The stela is now in the Scottish National Museum but unfortunately their display does not offer an accession number.
The second piece was once part of a limestone false door and dates from the Old Kingdom as well, this time coming from Dendera. The man shown on the left is called ppj-mn-anX (Pepi-Men-Ankh) which is given in the last column of the text. You can clearly see that the name is basilophorous, i.e. it incorporated the king's name, because that part is framed with a cartouche. Underneath that name, again, there's his rn-nfr: Mnj (Meni). The fragment is now in the Manchester Museum and has the number 3503.
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The good name
As this has come up occasionally - what were Egyptian names like, what were Egyptians called... I've just looked through pictures I took at museums and noticed that I do have a few nice examples where peoples "good names" are given.
The first is a stela from Akhmim, dating to the Old Kingdom, which shows a man called wsr-mjn (Usermin) in front of an offering table (left side). His name is given in the upper line with the offering formula and then again with his title Hm-nTr (priest) in the middle column. In front of him there's another name: His rn-nfr, his good name - which was Wedja. This would have possibly been a name he would have been called in life, similar to a nickname. The stela is now in the Scottish National Museum but unfortunately their display does not offer an accession number.
The second piece was once part of a limestone false door and dates from the Old Kingdom as well, this time coming from Dendera. The man shown on the left is called ppj-mn-anX (Pepi-Men-Ankh) which is given in the last column of the text. You can clearly see that the name is basilophorous, i.e. it incorporated the king's name, because that part is framed with a cartouche. Underneath that name, again, there's his rn-nfr: Mnj (Meni). The fragment is now in the Manchester Museum and has the number 3503.
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Sort of an academic(?) update - I've just found out last week that I'm the only one in my doctoral student group who does not get any kind of funding (stipend, university job or otherwise) and has to do it, essentially, after work and on the weekends.
Ngl, that's pretty disheartening.
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Youtube channel of the Harvard Museum Of The Near East - they upload rather nice lectures that I've enjoyed tremendously.
#egyptology#youtube channel#museums#harvard semitic museum#lectures#online ressources#this blog is just a dump for stuff i find interesting#tumblr keeps deleting my links does anyone else have this issue?
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... will you look at that. I started this blog at the start of my Egyptology degree(s) (and still have not finished the series I began 9 years ago).
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Amazing news: The Egyptological community has agreed on a new transliteration which will hopefully unify the different systems. Even a pdf version is already available.
Apparently the link posting does not work, so here's the link: https://ice2023.com/en/news/lut
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Archaeologist Antonio Morales talks about the First Intermediate Period.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD (2019) — (17.06) Egypt’s Darkest Hour
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Pet peeve: When someone says that the hippo part of Taweret does not fit with the rest of her. Lions and crocodiles are seen as "dangerous" animals, yet the most dangerous to humans... quite possibly the hippopotamus (500-3000 deaths every year).
Have a Taweret as compensation for listening to my rant:
(18. dynasty, Carnelian, Metropolitan Museum Acc. No. 30.8.273, photo CC0)
#Taweret#egyptology#18. dynasty#new kingdom#amulet#ancient egyptian gods#hippos can kill you#hippos will kill you
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Dissertation logs
Dissertation is... ongoing. At least, I have acquired the skill of reading fast and reading a lot; which is what I spend most of my evenings with. Working full-time means that I can't exactly put in as many hours as I would like, so I have to be as efficient as possible.
Since I'm not enrolled in a formal programme, I also have to actively seek out other people I can talk to. Thankfully this has not been hard at all. The university I am registered with has a few groups that meet up (semi-)regularly and my supervisors organize a colloquium each.
As a P.S. I have looked at the "Queens of Egypt" and remembered why I stopped posting - Nefertiti is up next and the choice of topic is rather difficult. For anyone who wants something on her, I recommend reading "Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth" by Naguib Mahfouz who has written one of the most interesting takes on remembering history after the fact.
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Dissertation logs
Currently reading:
Simon Conner: Ancient Egyptian Statues. Their many lives and deaths. Cairo 2022.
Am enjoying the book immensely, especially his focus on agency and use life - a good introduction which offers a lot of contextual information. Overall quite refreshing.
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Fun fact: The curse of Tutankhamen is a fabrication that Arthur Weigall made up for the Daily Mail because he personally could not stand Howard Carter.
Why, yes, I am currently reading through a trove of old Egyptologist's biographies and gossip.
#egyptology#tutankhamun#sort of#howard carter#arthur weigall#archaeology#academic drama of long past#just cannot seem to post regularly#story abridged for comedic effect
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can i offer you an extremely small ancient cephalopod in these trying times
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Honestly, one of the things that Terry Pratchett got absolutely correct when he wrote the Discworld books is that wizards are exactly like people who have worked in various niches of academia for 30+ years. Every single person who has spent more than 15 years in niche academia is completely batshit insane and ready to fight you to the death about increasingly ridiculous bullshit. Mustrum Ridcully is literally like if you took a man who had only researched a specific translation of a single book for 40 years and made him the Dean of a university.
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