Papers by Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
Dust, Demons and Pots Studies in Honour of Colin A. Hope, 2020
This volume brings together fifty-four studies on ancient Egypt and its interconnections with nei... more This volume brings together fifty-four studies on ancient Egypt and its interconnections with neighbouring regions to celebrate the career of Colin Hope. Presented by friends, colleagues and former students, contributions to the volume offer original research and fieldwork discoveries informed by new interpretations and insights on contemporary issues in Egyptology. In recognition of Colin Hope’s extensive research interests, the subjects of discussion are wide-ranging in their exploration of the art, archaeology, language and literature of Egypt from prehistory to the pharaonic period, the Roman period and later. Also included are studies on the reception of Egyptology and discussions on museum collections and material conservation. A feature of the volume is the range of studies that come from contexts within the Nile Valley proper and the desert regions beyond. Together, the contrasting perspectives reflect important directions in an ever-expanding discipline and in the long-standing contributions made to it by Colin Hope.
Egypt and Austria XI. In Search of the Orient: Proceedings of the Symposium held at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 2018
The present article has the aim to publish newly found manuscripts containing information relevan... more The present article has the aim to publish newly found manuscripts containing information relevant to the explorer and trader Angelo Castelbolognesi and his donations to the museums of Ferrara and Florence after 1868.
Burial and Mortuary Practices in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, 2017
Preliminary examination of selected cartonnage pieces excavated in two rock-cut tombs (10 and 25)... more Preliminary examination of selected cartonnage pieces excavated in two rock-cut tombs (10 and 25) of the western cemetery at Ismant el-Kharab, Dakhleh Oasis - Egypt.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c88883824cc6
Egypt 2015: Perspectives of Research - Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference of Egyptologists (2nd-7th June, 2015, Zagreb – Croatia), 2017
The Chancellor of the Austrian Consulate in Egypt, Giuseppe Nizzoli, and his wife Amalia Sola rep... more The Chancellor of the Austrian Consulate in Egypt, Giuseppe Nizzoli, and his wife Amalia Sola represent two prominent personalities who contributed much to the history of Egyptology: they sold a remarkable number of Egyptian collections and left an important book of memories of those years in Egypt. Nevertheless, they are frequently neglected in Egyptological studies and several aspects of their life are still unclear.
In 2008, the authors started a long-term project to re-investigate of these two persons, following their footsteps through Italy as well as across Europe. The paper will present the preliminary results of this project, showing important details concerning both their professional and private lives.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c886cdb105bf
Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2014
The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest preserves several wooden funerary fi... more The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest preserves several wooden funerary figures known as Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Among these, two specimens in particular stand out due to their characteristics which are worthy of further examination. The visit carried out in the Museum allowed me to conduct an in-depth analysis of these figures in the context of the survey of the CALiPSOProject. The present article intends to extend this particular corpus of data as well as to continue the previous investigation on this specific type of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures. Its first aim is to provide a detailed analysis of the two above-mentioned artefacts (inv. nos. 51.2098 and 51.244) focusing on their decorative features, inscriptions and typological characteristics. The second aim is to demonstrate that these two objects pertain to a very specific typology of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures, provided with particular and interesting features only present on examples manufactured in Akhmim.
Rindi Nuzzolo, Carlo. "Two Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures from Akhmim in the Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest," Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 119 (2014): 13-41.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8b124ec65d6
Egypt & Austria X: Visualizing the Orient. Central Europe and the Near East in the 19th and 20th Century. Proceedings of the International Conference (Prague, 1-3 October 2014), 2016
Egypt & Austria IX: The Perception of the Orient in Central Europe (1800–1918). Proceedings of the International Conference (21-24 October 2013 - Betliar, Slovakia), 2016
Todd Gillen (ed.), (Re)productive Traditions in Ancient Egypt (=Aegyptiaca Leodiensia), 2017
Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Liège, 6-8 February 2013.
... more Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Liège, 6-8 February 2013.
Results of the investigation carried out by the CALiPSO Project (Computer Aided Library-database for Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures). www.calipsoproject.net
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c982e07e6676
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.00The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
Images and drawings © Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
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M. Frelih (ed.), Magija Amuletov - The Magic of Amulets, Ljubljana, Dec 2014
Catalogue entry, description and study of a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure and considerations about its... more Catalogue entry, description and study of a Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure and considerations about its place of origin.
Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia, 2014
The article, through the study of previously unpublished sources, deals with the origins of Giuse... more The article, through the study of previously unpublished sources, deals with the origins of Giuseppe Nizzoli, as well as discussing his family and inheritors.
Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia, 2014
The present article is the study of the Florentine and Milanese manuscript sources concerning the... more The present article is the study of the Florentine and Milanese manuscript sources concerning the sale of Giuseppe Nizzoli's second collection of Egyptian antiquities.
Journal of the Archaeological Research Center in Egypt, 2013
The present paper investigates an unusual and hitherto unrecognized group of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris fi... more The present paper investigates an unusual and hitherto unrecognized group of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures. Through the study of four rare specimens here presented (first section), a typological analysis of such group is carried out (second section) and allowing to establish their possible geographical provenance.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists: Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt (Sofia, Bulgaria - 2012), 2014
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures became widely common in the later periods of Egyptian history, and thei... more Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures became widely common in the later periods of Egyptian history, and their presence is a peculiar characteristic of elite burials dating from the very last fringes of the third intermediate Period onwards. These figures, due to the significant role played in the funerary customs of such periods, were considered as symbols of resurrection and eternal life. The present contribution aims to outline a brief typological analysis of the prevalent positioning-methods of these figures inside the tombs, focusing primarily on Late Period interments. A reassessment of the significant placement typologies has been carried out investigating throughout studies and excavation reports, eventually formulating a hypothesis regarding a possible oriented positioning that frequently seems to occur.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8851b18754c
The Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists (ICYE-2012) organized by Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology and The Department of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies at New Bulgarian University, Sofia was held between September 22th and 25th 2012. The Congress was hosted by New Bulgarian University with the generous support of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bulletin de la Société d’Égyptologie de Genève, 2013
The figure of Tjesraperet is well known and her funerary furniture has been the subject of severa... more The figure of Tjesraperet is well known and her funerary furniture has been the subject of several studies and dedicated articles. This paper will try to shed some light on a particular, scarcely-investigated object of such funerary furniture, analysing its peculiar history and rare typological features.
Studi di Egittologia e Papirologia, 2013
The article proposes a first edition and commentary of two rare nineteenth-century manuscripts of... more The article proposes a first edition and commentary of two rare nineteenth-century manuscripts of Egyptological interest kept in the National Central Library of Florence: BNCF 294.171 and BNCF II.VII.93.
Egitto Vicino Oriente, 2012
http://www.calipsoproject.net
Images and drawings © Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
These three articles describe a pioneering experience on e-books carried on by Prato Public Libra... more These three articles describe a pioneering experience on e-books carried on by Prato Public Library (in Tuscany). The library has started to lend to its public some devices (with a number of downloaded texts) and, then, has sent out a questionnaire to check the interest of the users. The results of this survey are here described and discussed. Journal: Biblioteche Oggi, Vol. 30, April 2012
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
These three articles describe a pioneering experience on e-books carried on by Prato Public Libra... more These three articles describe a pioneering experience on e-books carried on by Prato Public Library (in Tuscany). The library has started to lend to its public some devices (with a number of downloaded texts) and, then, has sent out a questionnaire to check the interest of the users. The results of this survey are here described and discussed. Journal: Biblioteche Oggi, Vol. 30, aprile 2012
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
Thesis Chapters by Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
This research project investigates the Graeco-Roman cartonnage manufacture at Ismant al-Kharab, a... more This research project investigates the Graeco-Roman cartonnage manufacture at Ismant al-Kharab, ancient Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, and identifies local traits and features in the decoration, as an expression of the regional tradition. It further compares the material (i.e. mummy masks, foot-cases, and full body covers) with that from neighbouring areas of the Western Desert. The adoption of innovative elements in the research enabled me to identify and isolate techniques and motifs that characterise different artisan productions at Kellis. The survey and the comparison of archaeological data with the antiquities market raised issues of cultural heritage preservation and protection by establishing that a number of tombs at Kellis were looted in recent times.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5ca6c9fd1dc0f
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https://doi.org/10.26180/5c88883824cc6
In 2008, the authors started a long-term project to re-investigate of these two persons, following their footsteps through Italy as well as across Europe. The paper will present the preliminary results of this project, showing important details concerning both their professional and private lives.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c886cdb105bf
Rindi Nuzzolo, Carlo. "Two Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures from Akhmim in the Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest," Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 119 (2014): 13-41.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8b124ec65d6
Results of the investigation carried out by the CALiPSO Project (Computer Aided Library-database for Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures). www.calipsoproject.net
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c982e07e6676
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.00The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
Images and drawings © Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/252301705
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8851b18754c
The Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists (ICYE-2012) organized by Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology and The Department of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies at New Bulgarian University, Sofia was held between September 22th and 25th 2012. The Congress was hosted by New Bulgarian University with the generous support of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
Thesis Chapters by Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
https://doi.org/10.26180/5ca6c9fd1dc0f
http://www.calipsoproject.net/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324435369_A_Ptah-Sokar-Osiris_figure_in_the_name_of_Nesmin_son_of_Ankhpakhered
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c88883824cc6
In 2008, the authors started a long-term project to re-investigate of these two persons, following their footsteps through Italy as well as across Europe. The paper will present the preliminary results of this project, showing important details concerning both their professional and private lives.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c886cdb105bf
Rindi Nuzzolo, Carlo. "Two Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures from Akhmim in the Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest," Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 119 (2014): 13-41.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8b124ec65d6
Results of the investigation carried out by the CALiPSO Project (Computer Aided Library-database for Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures). www.calipsoproject.net
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c982e07e6676
Tradition is central to Egyptology, and this volume discusses and problematises the concept by bringing together the most recent work on archaeological, art historical and philological material from the Predynastic to the Late Period. The eclectic mix of material in this volume takes us from New Kingdom artists in the Theban foothills to Old Kingdom Abusir, and from changing ideas about literary texts to the visual effects of archaising statuary. With themes of diachrony persisting at the centre, aspects of tradition are approached from a variety of perspectives: as sets of conventions abstracted from the continuity of artefactual forms; as processes of knowledge (and practice) acquisition and transmission; and as relevant to the individuals and groups involved in artefact production. The volume is divided into four main sections, the first three of which attempt to reflect the different material foci of the contributions: text, art, and artefacts. The final section collects papers dealing with traditions which span different media.00The concepts of cultural productivity and reproductivity are inspired by the field of text criticism and form common reference points for describing cultural change across contributions discussing disparate kinds of data. Briefly put, productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. The scholars in this volume agree that a binary categorisation is restrictive and that a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of cultural production.
Images and drawings © Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/252301705
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8851b18754c
The Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists (ICYE-2012) organized by Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology and The Department of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies at New Bulgarian University, Sofia was held between September 22th and 25th 2012. The Congress was hosted by New Bulgarian University with the generous support of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
http://www.bibliotecheoggi.it/pdf.php?filepdf=20120302301.pdf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aae27ed0f
https://doi.org/10.26180/5ca6c9fd1dc0f
http://www.calipsoproject.net/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324435369_A_Ptah-Sokar-Osiris_figure_in_the_name_of_Nesmin_son_of_Ankhpakhered
The ICOM Palmyra Talks are a series of events organized by ICOM Austria to raise public awareness on the importance of protecting archaeological sites, fighting against illicit trafficking and trading of cultural objects to save our common heritage. The special ICOM Palmyra Talk on the occasion of the ICOM General Conference in Kyoto presents a groundbreaking new online-platform initiated by the British Museum to detect and recover looted artefacts.
“Circulating Artefacts: An online platform against the looting and sale of illicit antiquities”
Dr. Carlo Rindi, Lead Curator: Circulating Artefacts, Dept. Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum
http://icom-oesterreich.at/kalender/icom-palmyra-talk-icom-gc-kyoto
3 September 2019
There are now more illicit artefacts on the international art market than ever before since the 1970 UNESCO treaty on cultural property. The problem is multifaceted and should be tackled from multiple directions. Any attempt to fight the looting and trafficking of pharaonic antiquities must involve a concerted effort by the Egyptological community to monitor the art market. Only greater vigilance by the experts will truly pressure dealers and collectors to meet higher standards of ethics and transparency, thereby enabling more detections and repatriations of illicit artefacts. This need is now being addressed in the Circulating Artefacts (CA) project, an initiative of the British Museum conducted in partnership with the antiquities authorities of Egypt and Sudan. Thanks to a grant from the Cultural Protection Fund, which is run by the British Council, we are equipped to develop an innovative online platform. This centers on a database of pharaonic antiquities (launched in April 2019) seen in the trade and in private collections. A valuable tool for collaborative work, it exposes dealers and collectors to closer scrutiny by subject specialists and law enforcement agencies.
ICOM International Committee for Egyptology
The Mission of CIPEG is to promote collaboration among colleagues for the study preservation, and presentation of Egyptian collections, monuments and sites. In addition it supports collections of Egyptian art and archaeology, including the heritage of the Ancient Sudan with a special focus on smaller collections within the framework of ICOM and in close co-operation with the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE).
https://www.caa-gr2018.org/
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http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/ancient-cultures/excavations-in-dakhleh-oasis-egypt/
http://dakhlehoasisproject.com/
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c91c66d215ff
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c9c0d2f7365a
The Dakhleh Oasis Project in partnership with Monash University was pleased to host the Ninth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project held on 11–13 June 2018 at the Monash Prato Centre, Italy. An opening reception was held on the evening of 10 June 2018.
The conference marked the 40th year of investigations in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert. In recognition of this occasion, the conference provided a forum for project members and colleagues to synthesise long-term research findings, reflect on current understandings of the oasis, and explore future directions for studying the oasis and its surroundings. The conference and the ensuing publication was dedicated to Anthony Mills, founder of the Dakhleh Oasis Project.
I assisted with the Conference organisation and I designed the book of abstracts and posters.
https://cultura.ilfilo.net/una-conferenza-sullantico-egitto/
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/ancient-cultures/excavations-in-dakhleh-oasis-egypt/
http://dakhlehoasisproject.com/
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c9098953b05a
I also assisted with the Conference organisation and designed the book of abstracts and posters.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8b113380e5b
A variety of venues were assigned: Durham, Melbourne, Cairo, to enable various communities to learn about the Project, while we also learned from each other. This meeting in Krakow in 2015 will be the eighth in the series. The papers from each conference are published and form a large body of material.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c89aedfa8d27
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c886cdb105bf
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c88607821a00
E&A X: Visualizing the Orient.
The tenth Egypt and Austria conference took place in Prague from the 1st to 3rd October, 2014. It was organized by the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) and the Faculty of Humanities (FHS UK) of the Charles University under the title:
Visualizing the Orient. Central Europe and the Near East in the 19th and 20th Century.
The role of visualisation in the production of knowledge on Orient has become a subject of great interest in recent years. However, the question "how the Oriental Other was represented in modern Central European visual culture" has not yet stimulated an adequate scholarly interest. From the last decades of the 19th century onwards, the Orient became an integral part of a whole range of media and objects including photography, cinema, painting, and sculpture or book illustration. The Orient was staged, among others, in the most of Central European theatres and opera houses. Last but not least, orientalist imaginations were incorporated into period pop culture objects, such as comic cartoons, advertising or fashion. Travels and travellers often played the role of actual or imaginary mediators The main goal of our conference is thus to discuss both the wide range of visual forms and the conceptual frameworks suitable for the analysis of their social impacts.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c887cde81bc5
Intermediate Period onwards. Such artefacts, usually placed next to the coffin and inscribed with specific invocations, were considered an element of deep connection with the deceased, granting
his resurrection and life everlasting beyond death.
The custom of placing Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures inside the tombs reaches a climax during the Late and Ptolemaic periods during which they were often mass-produced, falling eventually into disuse with the approaching of the Roman era. During this time frame, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures are subject to changes in typology, style and religious significance. This paper, taking into account geographical and chronological factors, intends to present a brief analysis of these changes, focusing on the morphological, structural, and typological aspects involved in this evolution.
The aim of the conference was to present and discuss recent research and current themes on (human and animal) burial and mortuary practices in Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt – an issue that has become a major focus of interest over the past two decades. In addition to published objects and archaeological sites, the aim was also to integrate into the discussion unpublished materials kept in museum collections, archival records relating to earlier excavations, as well as recent archaeological discoveries.
International conference organised by the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Budapest).
Egyptian antiquities in Austria and Italy. Recently, a new manuscript document has been discovered by the present writer, allowing to shed light on previously unknown details concerning the Chancellor and his collections. This paper intends to investigate this new evidence.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c885bd0f29d5
The Perception of the Orient in Central Europe (1800 – 1918)
After the expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt in 1798, Europeans increasingly
began to encounter Near Eastern countries and to become acquainted with the cultures of the Orient. The conference sought to examine the perception of the Orient, especially Egypt, in Central Europe during the 19th century up to the First World War and the legacy of Egyptomania and Orientalism up to that time. The lectures targeted cultural interactions but topics referring to political, economic, and social relationships.
With special reference to the conference venue, attention was given to travelling
and collecting activities of the nobility from the countries of the former Austria-Hungary, that gave rise to libraries, artistic and archaeological collections and common knowledge about the Oriental world.
E&A XI: In Search of the Orient
The culture of Ancient Egypt has always held a great fascination for humankind. But for centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, all knowledge of Egypt and the Ancient World had gradually become lost. In close association with Egypt and Austria XI, the aim of the conference was to rediscover the Ancient Orient and devote ourselves to once again understanding in our time the significance and importance of this ancient culture in the world of science and research as well as in art, music and philosophy.
Conference, Liège (Belgium), Feb 6-8, 2013
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c887c538b99c
Objectives:
Tradition is central to Egyptology, yet individual traditions in textual, artistic and material production still await critical treatment, and methodological frameworks for micro-analysis are emergent. This conference seeks to address these issues in highlighting diachronic, diatopic and socio-cultural aspects of ancient Egyptian traditions.
The notion of (re)productivity offers a simple conceptual framework as a means of dealing with tradition, and the model adopted by Egyptological text criticism distinguishes between different kinds of transmission: productive or open traditions are in a state of flux that stands in dialectic relation to shifting social and historical circumstances, while reproductive or closed traditions are frozen at a particular historical moment and their formulations are thereafter faithfully passed down verbatim. While a narrow binary structure may be a little restrictive, a continuum between the two poles of dynamic productivity and static reproductivity is by all means relevant to and useful for the description of various types of symbolization, and probably all types of cultural production.
Such a framework has enough descriptive power and sufficient breadth to reach beyond the use until now in the field of text studies (the so-called “Textkritische Methode”) and has the potential of articulating with well-developed practices of typology and seriation used in the analysis of artistic and material production. Thus it is an aim of this conference to investigate common parameters for talking about the production of material, artistic and textual culture in ancient Egypt.
Orientations:
Primarily of interest is micro-analysis of artistic, textual and archaeological material that permits us to identify and account for the characterizing features of traditions and follow their paths of transmission.
Of particular interest are explorations of the possibilities for identification of new areas of study within this frame, as well as examinations of the ambiguous place of existing concepts such as archaism, modernism, survival, revival, classicism, innovation, canonization, and creativity.
The diachronic perspective is intrinsic to the concept of tradition, and since traditions may pass through several phases of productivity, relevant questions are: in what circumstances is cultural production productive in ancient Egypt? What are the historical circumstances in which reproductivity emerges? In what situations can traditions be “frozen” and the artefact enter the domain of the reproductive?
The diatopic perspective is equally important: what are the centres of (re)production for particular traditions? How do they become diffused? How do they change as they migrate?
Implied in many of these lines of questioning are issues of scribal, artistic and manufacturing practice, and we can ask: what are the pragmatic circumstances of production? What are the issues in treating different kinds of supports? How do ideas move between supports?
From a socio-cultural point of view, a significant issue is how artefacts of culture are manifestations of the reproductive impulse of social hierarchies, i.e. the role of the creation and maintenance of traditions in (elite) socialization and identity formation, together with the (self-) legitimisation of elite social dominance, or, for non-elites, the internalisation of the terms of their own domination. We are also dealing with the changing dimensions of cultural memory: how does our impression of Egyptian memory change with the consideration of different categories of evidence? What can detailed diachronic and diatopic studies of textual, artistic and material traditions tell us about the ever-changing social situations that create them?
Though this conference has as its chief focus Pre-Christian Egypt of all phases, contributions are also welcome that address the use and transformation of Pharaonic traditions into the Coptic period.
Confirmed Speakers:
A number of invited speakers (specialists in text, art-history and material culture) have been confirmed for the conference:
Tamás Bács (Budapest)
Traditions old and new: artistic production of the late Ramesside period.
Whitney Davis (UC Berkeley)
Ancient Egyptian Illusion
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (Leipzig)
If A, then B - Cross genre correspondences in early wisdom, medical, mathematical, and dream texts
Christiana Köhler (Vienna)
Non-elite funerary culture in early Memphis
Gabriele Pieke (Berlin)
Lost in Transformation: Artistic Creation between Permanence and Change
Pascal Vernus (Paris)
The dialectic of productivity and reproductivity as a conceptual framework for refining the (socio)linguistic concept of égyptien de tradition.
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8851b18754c
The Fourth International Congress for Young Egyptologists: Cult and Belief in Ancient Egypt took place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 22-25 September 2012. The Congress was organized by the Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology and New Bulgarian University.
Academic & Advisory Committee:
Prof. Dr. Sergei Ignatov
Head of the Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology, Minister of Education, Youth and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria
Dr. Ian Shaw
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool;
Dr. Eleni Vassilika
Director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin;
Prof. Dr. Joachim-Friedrich Quack
Director of the Institute of Egyptology, Heidelberg University;
Dr. Richard B. Parkinson
Curator, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum.
http://www.calipsoproject.net/
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8b124ec65d6
"Accesso all'Informazione e Collaborazione Virtuale"
Course funded by the Regional Government of Tuscany
9 January - 16 February 2012
AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (Italian Library Association)
This is the final version of my presentation.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8183-8483
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c88428db72a8
9 January - 16 February 2012
AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (Italian Library Association)
First draft of presentation.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8183-8483
https://doi.org/10.26180/5c8842194fe36