Headrests in Brighton Museum, Sussex, England
Brighton Musuem in Sussex has a nice little Egypt collection on display (and an even greater collection in storage). I will draft and article some time soon to give more details and to encourage visits. In the meantime, here are images of the four wooden Egyptian headrests on display – with apologies to Barbara O’Neill [more…]
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The Birth Bower and Mamissi-Chapels in Ancient Egypt
Kate Phizackerley introduces womens’ experience of child birth in Ancient Egypt and the special birth bowers assigned to this important event. She traces how this involved into a special type of chapel, called a mammis and considers what implications might be drawn from one scene depicting Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti. Along the way she covers who might attend a birth and touches on some of the medical texts. [more…]
Photos of Medinet Habu – Part II – by Heidi Kontkanen
Second and final part of a series of photographs of Medinet Habu by Heidi Kontkanen. You can also find more of Heidi’s photos on Flickr. (I have adjusted the colour cast of the coloured reliefs to bring out the colours a bit better. I’ve also cropped them to a variety of sizes so that the [more…]
Le sAb à l’Ancien Empire: une Approche du Titre en Marge d’une étude Prosopographique
Le sAb à l’Ancien Empire : une approche du titre en marge d’une étude prosopographique Etienne Vande Walle [Editors' Note - this the orginal French text. An English translation appeared in the Journal on 30th June 2011.] A l’occasion de l’examen de 522 titulatures d’Ancien Empire contenant le terme sAb nous avons pu constater [more…]