Kitab – Egyptology in Focus (MCAEN)

Editor-in-chief: Gianluca Miniaci

Scientific committee:

Miroslav Bárta, Manfred Bietak, Julia Budka, Simon Connor, Kenneth Griffin, Ahmed Mekawy, Antonio Morales, Claudia Näser, Rune Nyord, Campbell Price, Yasmine El-Shazly, Angela Tooley, Yann Tristant

Published by Nicanor Books

(ISSN online: 2752-6267; ISSN: 2752-6259)

The series Kitab – Egyptology in Focus (sub-series: Material culture of ancient Egypt and Nubia) seeks to provide space for very focused long articles or short books, and is a scientific vehicle for those research topics which do not fit neatly into the format of a journal article or a book. Occasionally, research is too short and concise for a full monograph but too long and detailed for a journal article. Therefore, Kitab aims at acting as a focused “container”, which draws the right attention to important concise research, spotlighting the research subject by isolating it in single standing-alone volumes, and helping to prevent research unnecessarily divided across articles in journals and collective volumes. Kitab will also help in speedily communicating the results of a focused research and makes research outputs immediately available online and in printed versions.

The first sub-series is devoted to the “Material Culture of ancient Egypt and Nubia”.

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Author Guide

Wolfram Grajetzki

The Sarcophagus of Hunefer and other New Kingdom Private Sarcophagi

(Kitab – Egyptology in Focus 3)

2022

ISBN: 978-1-8381180-2-0

Abstract

The third volume of the series “Kitab – Egyptology in Focus. Material culture of ancient Egypt and Nubia” is the full publication of the granite sarcophagus of the mayor of Thebes, Hunefer, in office under Ramses II, placing it in its historical and geographical context. To date, the sarcophagus, which is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, has received little research attention despite being an important monument. The book also includes a catalogue of about 100 other New Kingdom stone sarcophagi.

Anna K. Hodgkinson

The ear studs, ear plugs or beads?

Reinterpreting a group of glass objects from New Kingdom Egypt in the British Museum

(Kitab – Egyptology in Focus 2)

2021

ISBN: 978-1-8381180-2-0

Abstract

This short volume discusses a group of glass objects kept in the British Museum that date to the Egyptian New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) and are commonly referred to as ‘ear plugs’ or ‘ear studs’. Ancient Egyptian ear studs from variety of materials appear in the archaeological record and are usually depicted as worn with a convex dome to the front. However, there is evidence to suggest that the glass objects discussed in this volume, and which are similar, but not equal, in shape to ear studs, were not designed as ear jewelery, but that they actually functioned as beads. The objects are flat-fronted and pierced latitudinally. The piercing, which is related to the manufacture of the objects on a metal rod,would have enabled the objects to be threaded and to be suspended vertically, either as parts of garments or as parts of bead chains.

Gianluca Miniaci

The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context

(Kitab – Egyptology in Focus 1)

2020

ISBN: 978-1838118006

Abstract

In 1895–96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the ‘Ramesseum’, the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single spot together with a number of distinctive objects, such as carved ivory tusks and miniature figurines in various materials dated around XVIII century BC. Gianluca Miniaci attempts to thoroughly reconstruct the archaeological context of the tomb: the exact find spot (forgotten afterwards its discovery), its architecture, the identity of its owner(s) and recipient(s) of the assemblage of artefacts. A detailed analysis of the single artefacts – provided for the first with full color photographic records and drawings – and their network of relations gives new life to the Ramesseum assemblage after more than a century from its discovery.

The Sarcophagus of Hunefer and other New Kingdom Private Sarcophagi

The ear studs, ear plugs or beads?

The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context

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