Sorry about no posts yesterday. We were busy with numerous projects and going on about 4 hours of sleep. Besides, the only news out there seems to be a hundred and fifty stories about King Tut. . . .
Heh. Well, now we know what the discrepancy between 666 and 616 as the Number of the Beast was: Before and after taxes.
HT to Ace.
More later.
News from the EEF
Press report: "Slice of Egypt in the office"
http://snipurl.com/eucc
[login and password both: eefeef]
"Dr Karin Sowada (...) assistant curator of the Nicholson Museum of antiquities [Sidney] (...) came across an ageing volume she had never noticed before...It was a collection of eight 19th-century graphic impressions, called squeezes, made in Egyptian tombs (...) long-forgotten impressions made almost 150 years ago by Australia's first Egyptologist, Sir Charles Nicholson. "
Press report: "Discover raiders of the lost art"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8214-1599727,00.html
About some Egyptological items on auction with Sotheby's today, among which 142 photographs of Harry Burton documenting the excavations of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. See also:
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?&lot_id=4DYYW
Press report about the planned National Museum for Egyptian Civilisation:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/742/hr1.htm
Dr Zahi Hawass dedicates his column to Farouk Hosni, minister of culture, the first to receive a new SCA award:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/742/hr2.htm
Press report: "A glimpse into ancient Egypt"
"In about a week, tests will reveal whether the art on an Egyptian vase on show at the Royal Pump Room Museum is of international importance or the work of a brilliant forger."
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5215
Another (different) press report about this: http://snipurl.com/euce
Bruno Halioua, Bernard Ziskind, Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Belknap Press, April 2005. Hb, 288 pp., ISBN 0-674-01702-1, $24.95
"A comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of ancient Egyptian people from all walks of life. "
You can read an excerpt in PDF format at this site (43 Mb though):
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HALMEP.html
Digitized book from the Giza Digital Library
-- Peter Der Manuelian (ed.), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, vols. 1-2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996 - pdf-files: 32.2 MB (vol. 1), 33.8 MB (vol. 2) - you can also download the articles separately
http://www.gizapyramids.org/code/emuseum.asp?newpage=fs_simpson
Digitized books from the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
-- Jacques de Morgan, Carte de la nécropole memphite: Dahchour, Sakkarah, Abou-Sir, s.n. [Imprimérie de l'IFAO], s.l. [Le Caire], 1897. 12 pls.
http://www.mom.fr/bibliotheque/bibnum/Notice.php?id=1072
Online dissertation: Jitse Harm Fokke Dijkstra, Religious Encounters on the Southern Egyptian Frontier in Late Antiquity (AD 298 - 642), Proefschrift, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2005. 242 pp.
"This book, then, aims to be a multidisciplinary study of how religion, in so far as it can be reconstructed from the variety of sources, became transformed on a regional level in Late Antiquity ... Our focus will be on how the region became Christian, and how the Ancient Egyptian cults at Philae were affected by this development." - pdf-file: 3.7 MB
http://snipurl.com/euco
[snipped from:
http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/theology/2005/j.h.f.dijkstra/
thesis.pdf ]
[Submitted by Troy Sagrillo (netherworld@scarlet.be)]
Also issues 4, 5 and 6 of the Bulletin de la Société d'Égyptologie, Genève (BSÉG), have now been put online (articles as PDF files):
http://www.segweb.ch/buart.htm
[For issues 1-3, see EEFNEWS (350)]
Online version of: M. Masseti, "Did endemic dwarf elephants survive on Mediterranean islands up to protohistorical times?" in: G. Cavarretta et al., The World of Elephants. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference, Rome 2001, pp. 402-406, in PDF, 306 kB.
http://www.cq.rm.cnr.it/elephants2001/pdf/402_406.pdf
"The wall paintings of the 18th Dynasty tomb of Rekh-mi-Re... show, among other figures, that of a small-sized elephant borne by the Syrian tributaries as a gift to the Egyptian pharaoh.... it cannot be excluded that the elephant depicted could...represent a dwarf
proboscidean, possibly imported to Egypt from somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean islands where endemic dwarf elephants might still have survived up to protohistorical times."
[To be consumed with a jumbo-size spoon of salt, I'd say.]
Online verison of: Mahmoud Ezzamel, "Accounting, the Divine and the Symbollic: The Memorial Tempels of Ancient Egypt", in: Proceedings of the 3rd Accounting History International Conference 2003, 59 pp., in PDF, 856 kB.
http://www.muprivate.edu.au/fileadmin/SOE/acchist/conf3/Ezzamel.pdf
"This paper ...focuses upon the symbolic role of accounting, drawing upon evidence from the NK...in the form of accounting inscriptions related to royal memorial temples. "
Electronic Antiquity, the e-journal for the Classics, has some book reviews that are relevant for EEF, namely in the issues of February 2003 and July 2004:
--- review (in HTML) by Kasia Szpakowska of:
Jan Assmann, The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, Translated by David Lorton. 2001.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V7N1/szpakowska.html
-- review (in HTML) by Anthony Spalinger of:
Erik Hornung, The Secret Lore of Egypt. Its Impact on the West, Translated by David Lorton. 2001.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V7N1/spalinger.html
-- review (in PDF, 300 kb) by Duane W. Roller of:
K. Mysliwiec, The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E., Translated by David Lorton. 2000
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V8N1/Mysliwiec.pdf
End of EEF news