Egyptian Faience

I am a retired scientist with a PhD and DSc in medical biochemistry, not an Egyptologist. I learned about Egyptology by visiting repeatedly the best Egyptian museums worldwide (the Cairo Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, Le Louvre, the Museo Egizio Torino, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Petrie Museum, the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin, etc.) and by extensive readings. I strongly believe that to build up a fine collection you must know what you are looking for and what you are buying. In this draft, I present some rare ancient Egyptian amulets by the design, the colour and/or the material that I've been collecting for 45 years. This draft is the prelude to a non-commercial blog where I am describing twice as many types of amulets as those reported by both Petrie and Andrews.

Dopo un'esauriente introduzione al patrimonio culturale egizio dell'Italia meridionale dal X al VI secolo a.C. il volume offre un quadro completo degli oggetti di produzione egizia ed egittizzante rinvenuti negli scavi archeologici dell'Università di Groningen sul Timpone della Motta di Francavilla Marittima tra 1991 e 2004. Si tratta del gruppo più numeroso di amuleti egizi rinvenuti, soprattutto in forma di divinità egizie, nell'Italia meridionale. È presente anche un gran numero di scarabei, per lo più di origine egea, che avevano pure carattere di amuleto. L'insieme è completato da alcuni vasetti in faïence, per lo più frammenti. La scavatrice Marianne Kleibrink è responsabile per la caratterizzazione e la datazione dei contesti. Il libro fa parte della collana »Scientia Antiquitatis«, diretta da Maurizio Mollo.

Ein Charakteristikum der ägyptischen erzählenden Literatur der Spätzeit ist ihre Tendenz, ursprünglich historische Ereignisse in einer Art aufzubereiten, die in den Bereich historischer Romane zweifelhafter Detailtreue oder gar dezidiert mär chenhafter Züge geht. 1 Einer der längsten und ausführlichsten Zyklen ist der soge nannte Inaros-Zyklus, der in der älteren Forschung auch als Petubastis-Zyklus bekannt ist. 2 Für seine historische Bewertung bedeutete es einen wesentlichen Erkenntnisschub, als Kenneth Kitchen nachweisen konnte, daß viele der auftre tenden Gestalten, insbesondere solche aus der besonders personenreichen Erzäh lung vom Streit um den Panzer des Inaros, 3 in die Zeit um die assyrische Erobe rung Ägyptens gehören und von hieroglyphischen Denkmälern und/oder keil schriftlichen Königsinschriften her bekannt sind, und daß der Name des Asarhaddon in den demotischen Texten realiter auftaucht. 4 Gerade der namengebende Hauptheld des Zyklus, nämlich Inaros, erwies sich jedoch bislang als relativ schwer faßbar. Ein Versuch, ihn mit einem gewissen Inaros zu verbinden, gegen den die Milesier nach Strabo 17,1,18 (C 801) bei der Gründung von Naukratis kämpfen mußten, 5 wird heute mit dem Argument skep tisch beurteilt, daß Inaros nach dem Text des Papyrus Krall als Lokalfürst im Ost delta zu verstehen sei, Naukratis aber im Westdelta läge. 6 Zudem spräche der Wortlaut bei Strabo dafür, daß es sich um eine Stadt, nicht um eine Person hande le. Auf diesen Punkt werde ich unten nochmals eingehen. Gerne nahm man aufgrund des scheinbaren Fehlens in den Texten aus dem 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. an, daß hier eine ganz andere Figur anachronistisch mit dem restlichen Stoff verbunden sei, nämlich ein gewisser Inaros, der nach den Angaben griechischer Historiker um 460 v. Chr. gegen die Perserherrschaft in Ägypten gekämpft hat. 7 Eben dieser Inaros, den man lange nur aus nichtägypti

A number of small collections of Egyptian amulets were acquired in the 20th C. by the institution that became known as the Powerhouse Museum.  The pieces presented in this catalogue come from five different sources which are reflected in their accession numbers. They are without exception unprovenanced, but certain remarks can nevertheless be made about them as a group: they are in the main depictions of deities (such as Nefertem) or aspects of deities (such as the Wedjat or eye of Horus); they are without exception of glazed composition (also known as faience); and they are rarely complete. As a whole they are the types of amulets that could have been used by the living and eventually, as suggested by their survival today, for protection of the mummified remains after death. The amulets date largely from the Late Period, and even as a random sample reflect the burgeoning use of amulets documented in the period after 664 bc.

This analysis of the faiences found at Kerma from Reisner's excavations has been many years waiting for completion and publication. Since a number of articles based on this work have already appeared and there is great interest in it, it is advisable to present it here pending its completion and publication. Some of the illustrations for it will be posted in a separate document

It was in 2012 that the University of Tübingen started the proper excavation of the temple of King Ptolemy XII at Athribis. This temple was reused for many years during the Late Roman (Coptic) and medieval (Islamic) periods until its destruction between the mid-10th and the mid-11th century. During that time the temple was filled with debris and rubbish, and several rooms were temporarily used as animal pens. Besides a variety of objects such as wood, fabrics, and coins, we found hundreds of beads, several pendants, and other jewelry, like horn bracelets, bronze rings, and hairpins. We have started to classify the beads in order to produce a catalog of all the jewelry as a basis for further in-depth research.

A la hora de realizar una investigación en arqueología, todos los jóvenes investigadores nos hemos enfrentado en general a los mismos problemas. El acceso a las fuentes de información, informes arqueológicos e incluso al objeto propiamente dicho de estudio no resulta siempre fácil. La interdisciplinariedad y la colaboración con otros investigadores se presenta entonces como la mejor solución posible.
Nuestra experiencia parte del TFM presentado en el Master de Investigación en conservación y restauración de la Universidad de la Sorbona. Nos centramos en las conocidas urnas de fayenza egipcia del Museo de Cádiz y en la búsqueda de paralelos a nivel mediterráneo. La colaboración con el Departamento de antigüedades egipcias del Museo del Louvre nos permitió encontrarlos y crear así un verdadero corpus y líneas de estudio.
La fayenza es un tipo de cerámica muy particular cuya exportación se extendió desde Egipto hacia todo el Mediterráneo, por lo que muchos museos disponen de piezas de este material. El contacto y la colaboración con conservadores fue fundamental para nuestra investigación.
El objetivo de esta comunicación es mostrar diferentes sistemas de conservación en museos europeos a través del estudio de unas piezas similares.

Knowledge processing by CAD systems poses challenging problems for the e缶 cient integra − tion of design and construc 七 ion processes ， While CAD systems have been applied to variouB phases of building construction to improve produc 七 ivity in drawing activities コ the dema 皿 d for sufHcient use of knowledge arises ． Knowledge rnay be produced in the fields of technical stan − dard review ， constructability investigation ， and production information management ． This paper presents the recent utilization of CAD applications in several construction projects and the analysis of drawil ユ g objects ' categories described in working drawings of the projects ．

A Sindrome dos Ovarios Policisticos e uma doenca endocrina complexa que tem como elementos principais hiperandrogenismo e anovulacao cronica. Caracteriza-se por sinais de irregularidade menstrual, amenorreia, hirsutismo, acne, alopecia e seborreia. A denominacao dada a esta sindrome se deve a presenca frequente de ovarios aumentados de volume, com hipertrofia do estroma e multiplos cistos na periferia da cortex. Ao longo dos anos a Sindrome dos Ovarios Policisticos  evoluiu de uma doenca para uma sindrome e tem havido muita mas ha crescentes evidencias de uma base genetica a fisiopatologia ainda nao e bem compreendida. E importante ressaltar que gestantes com Sindrome dos Ovarios Policisticos apresentam maior incidencia de complicacoes obstetricas. Na mais recente metanalise avaliando gravidez em mulheres com Sindrome dos Ovarios Policisticos, foi observado que estas mulheres apresentam maiores riscos para o desenvolvimento de diabetes gestacional, hipertensao induzida pela gestacao...

This paperaims to elucidate the prQcess ofprototype generationin Le Corbusier ' sarchitectural work for ta Tourette． He pr 〔) jectS universal architectural fbrms on varioussites ， strategically adaptingthese general patterns to each particu且 ar site． To ana 【 yze his viewpoint concerningsite − prototype relationship ， this research investigates the vault ， loggia ， roof − terrace and sculptural elements as meanlngful prototypes in La Tourette． Visiting the site ， Le Corbusier feltaneed to orientate the bui且 dingto the west ． The prototype −site adaptation was not an instantaneous solution ， but Le Corbusier ' sprocess of the realization ofan architectural scenerytotbe west was influenced by the place ．

En las páginas que siguen planteamos la identificación de dos variantes tipológicas de los amuletos convencionalmente denominados "cipos" con ciertas arquitecturas de carácter simbólico. En primer lugar, proponemos la correspondencia entre la forma de algunas piezas de dicha categoría con la representación esquemática de pequeñas construcciones destinadas a albergar figuritas de culto. Por otro lado, apoyamos la identificación de una variante del tipo "cipo" con ciertas arquitecturas de carácter funerario y conmemorativo propias del ámbito púnico; damos a conocer un nuevo amuleto de estas características procedente de Ibiza y proponemos una interpretación o lectura simbólica para el diseño en forma de aspa cruzada que aparece inciso sobre uno de los amuletos utilizados en nuestra argumentación. PALABRAS CLAVE: amuleto, cipo, arquitectura púnica, arquitectura simbólica, capilla, monumento funerario, tumba, orientación cardinal, diosa Seshat.

Resumen: En esta pequeña digresión en homenaje a mi querida amiga Paloma Cabrera, se abordan tres importantes colecciones constituidas en el siglo xix. La primera, reunida por João Allen en el contexto de su Grand Tour a Italia, es la colección más antigua que entra en Portugal. La segunda fue reunida por don Manuel de Souza Holstein (1703-1759) y por su hijo don Alexandre de Souza Holstein (1751-1803), ambos embajadores en Roma, e ingresó en nuestro país poco después de la subida al trono de doña María II, hacia 1834. La tercera y última colección, constituida en la segunda mitad del siglo xix, comprende distintas piezas adquiridas por monarcas portugueses y da buena cuenta del interés de los reyes de la Casa de Braganza por la Antigüedad clásica.

Abstract;Service Engineering is a new engineering idea which aims at increasing service and knowledge contents of added values generated in product life cycle. This report focuses on a service modeling method which is needed in the first step of the Service Engineering. ...

Este trabajo pretende explorar la dimensión ritual en los Textos de las Pirámides, el corpus de literatura religiosa extensa más antiguo de la humanidad. La naturaleza variada de sus componentes textuales ha impedido que los egiptólogos comprendan en profundidad las complejidades de la colección y los contextos originales en los que estos textos (ritos) aparecieron. La aplicación de la teoría del ritual, principalmente la aproximación de la sintaxis ritual, ofrece a los investigadores un marco excelente de análisis e interpretación del corpus, su estructura y función. Sujeto a las reglas de la sintaxis ritual es posible exponer los múltiples niveles de significado en el corpus para la resurrección y salvación del difunto.

In this paper, the output regulation problem for nonlinear systems is considered. It is known that, this problem is solvable iff there exists a solution of partial differential-algebraic equation (PDAE) associated with the dynamics and the output equation of the systems. In general, it is difficult to solve such PDAE and several approximate solutions have been proposed. The radial basis function (RBF) network is adopted in order to solve the PDE approximately. The effectiveness of the approach is examined by numerical experiment for the well-known ball and beam system.

Multi-agent techniques are expected to develop flexible systems forr utilization in environmental situations, which change complicatedly and continuously-especially, rescue systems in large-scale disasters enabling reductions of damage and preventing many deaths. The RoboCupRescue project was started in Japan in 1999. The project is one of international research to develop rescue systems for large-scale disasters. The project uses the multi-agent approach to realize its aims. In this paper, we deal with the RoboCupRescue simulation project. One of areas of interest in multi-agent techniques is the realization of efficient cooperative behavior design of multi-agent systems. The problems of large-scale disasters can not be solved utilizing these traditional frameworks because rescue agents have mobility and can get only restricted information(just a part of the information). So, in the traditional frameworks, agents cannot communicate with each other and form short time suitable groups. Besides, agents need to behave in a real-time environment that is changing complicatedly and continuously. In this paper, we propose a cooperative model of rescue agents by a group forming algorithm behavior of rescue agents. We define group as a set of agents that solve a same problem cooperatively. By using this model, agent can form a group whenever it is required to solve the problem. We implemented our rescue agent and confirmed efficiency of our model and algorithm through some simulations.