Books by Helmut Brandl
A bilingual (Arabic/English) richly illustrated catalogue of the antiquities (ancient Egyptian, M... more A bilingual (Arabic/English) richly illustrated catalogue of the antiquities (ancient Egyptian, Mycenean, Greek-Archaic, Roman, and Nabataean) formerly on display in the Sharkeya National Museum at Herriat Raznah (near Zagazig, in the Sharkeya govt.), Egypt.
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A bilingual (Arabic/English) richly illustrated catalogue of the Egyptian (and a few Near-Eastern... more A bilingual (Arabic/English) richly illustrated catalogue of the Egyptian (and a few Near-Eastern and Roman) antiquities currently on display in the archaeological museum of the University of Zagazig, Sharkeya, Egypt.
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H. Brandl, Untersuchungen zur steinernen Privatplastik der Dritten Zwischenzeit. Typologie - Ikonographie - Stilistik, 2008
Presentation and discussion (in German) of a corpus of ancient Egyptian sculptures from the Third... more Presentation and discussion (in German) of a corpus of ancient Egyptian sculptures from the Third Intermediate Period. The work includes entries on 91 private stone statues from Upper and Lower Egypt considered to represent original works of art of the TIP. Additionally 16 usurped private statues and five possibly usurped statues are investigated regarding their statue type (sculptures in striding, seated, kneeling, or squatting position and block statues), iconography, and style. There is a focus on the relief decoration of the statues. The few securely datable stone statues depicting royalty and divinities are also considered and compared with the original private statues according to the style of their body modelling and their facial features. 2 vols. Vol. I: 488 pages with 107 figures; vol. II: 46 pages plus 187 plates.
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BMBF Project "KunstModell" by Helmut Brandl
Hinweis auf eine aktuelle Online-Ausstellung: www.kunstmodell.de, 2022
In der virtuellen Ausstellung werden zahlreiche Objekte der Pharaonenzeit und der hellenistischen... more In der virtuellen Ausstellung werden zahlreiche Objekte der Pharaonenzeit und der hellenistischen Periode Ägyptens aus den Sammlungen des Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museums Hildesheim und des Museum August Kestner, Hannover, präsentiert und unter dem Blickwinkel ihres Modellseins erläutert.
Theoretische, modellkundliche Überlegungen werden in einem Eingangsvideo vorgestellt (Konzept und Regie: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim. Weitere Mitwirkende: Dr. Bettina Schmitz, Mathias Salomon, M.A. und Dr. Helmut Brandl)
Die Ausstellung wurde gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BMBF). Sie ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts "Für eine gemeinsame Systembeschreibung von Modellen und Kunstwerken aus den antiken Kulturen Nordostafrikas" (KunstModell) und wurde im Rahmenprogramm Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften des BMBF mit dem Förderschwerpunkt "Sprache der Objekte" konzipiert.
Verantwortliche Projektleitung Hannover: Dr. Christian E. Loeben, Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Gestaltung: Bureau Sebastian Moock, Hannover
Beteiligte Institutionen: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Hochschule Wismar, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim und Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
Projektkoordination: Prof. Dr. Susanne Deicher, Wismar
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Susanne Deicher, Maria Keil, and Heike Wilde (eds), Modelling Ancient Egypt. Papers of the 2019 Luxor University KunstModell-Project-Conference on Ancient Egyptian Models (advance notice), 2024
Presentation and discussion of groups of works of art (bronze statuettes, stone statues and heads... more Presentation and discussion of groups of works of art (bronze statuettes, stone statues and heads of such) and groups of uninscribed “sculptors’ models” (stone busts and stone relief tablets, plaster busts and plaster relief tablets) preserved in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, the Museum August Kestner, Hannover, the Egyptian Museum Cairo, and elsewhere. Once thought to represent “anonymous priests” the busts and tablets are identified as sacred images representing the popular healing god Imhotep/Imuthes. (see also Th. Liepsner, in: LÄ IV (1982), cols 168-180). On the basis of scanty remains of gilding preserved on some of the “models” and due to the additional carving of “human” ears on some of the tablets (presumably invoking the divinity’s ability to hear a devotee’s prayers and requests) most of the discussed “models” are considered to have served as ex-votos during the Late or Ptolemaic periods. (One stone tablet turned out to be a modern forgery). The discussed objects and related objects are called “pseudo-sculptors’ models” by the author.
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Susanne Deicher et al. (Hrsg.), Modelle im Alten Ägypten – Objekte des Wissens. Berlin, Kulturverlag Kadmos, S. 325-345 , 2023
The paper discusses fundamental aspects of ancient Egypt’s “model culture” and presents a case st... more The paper discusses fundamental aspects of ancient Egypt’s “model culture” and presents a case study. It focuses on objects preserved in Hildesheim’s Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum (two metal mirrors: PM 2455; PM 85; Old resp. New Kingdom) and Hannover’s Museum August Kestner (a calcite cosmetic spoon shaped as a mirror; Inv. 1900; New Kingdom). Such objects were once used as grave goods. Wooden replicas (“models”) of mirrors which were discovered in both royal and private funerary contexts of the Middle Kingdom/Second Interm. Periods are compared with them while the use of mirrors (and clappers) in the cult of Hathor during Old Kingdom is also considered. It is concluded that in the sphere of sanctuaries and necropolises both functional and non-functional mirrors could serve as models and symbols of the solar and lunar cycles alluding to rebirth in the afterlife.
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THOT's Infoheft 29, Oktober 2022 des Collegium Aegyptium e. V. - Förderkreis des Instituts für Ägyptologie der LMU München, 2022
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aMun - Magazin für die Freunde Ägyptischer Museen und Sammlungen, 2020
Popular report on the multi-disciplinary project "ArtModel: Egyptian Models" with Egyptology (Egy... more Popular report on the multi-disciplinary project "ArtModel: Egyptian Models" with Egyptology (Egyptian collections in Hannover and Hildesheim), Art History (Fachhochschule Wismar) and Informatics (University of Kiel). For a shorter article in English see: "KunstModell - Researching Ancient Egyptian Works of Art and Models", in:
CIPEG e-News 14, 2020 (also here on Academia.edu). - (in German)
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Beiteiligung an der Modelle-Ausstellung "Kräne - Brücken - Lokomotiven" des RPM 2020, 2021
Das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fördert von 2018-... more Das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fördert von 2018-2021 am Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum und am Museum August Kestner, Hannover, die Erforschung altägyptischer Kunstwerke und Modelle.
Das interdisziplinäre Projekt, in dem Wissenschaftler:innen aus , Ägyptologie, Informatik und Kunstgeschichte zusammenarbeiten, heißt "KunstModell".
Im Rahmen der RPM-Sonderausstellung "Kräne – Brücken – Lokomotiven: Metallbauwelten von Märklin, Trix und Stabil" (gezeigt vom 09. Oktober 2020 bis zum 16. Januar 2022) wurden aus den archäologischen, ethnologischen und stadthistorischen Sammlungsbereichen des Museums Exponate ausgewählt, die die Verwendung von Modellen bereits vor langer Zeit bzw. in weit voneinander entfernten Weltgegenden illustrieren.
Zusätzlich werden auch Aspekte aus dem BMBF-Projekt "KunstModell" in der Ausstellung dargestellt. Hierbei sollen Beispiele v. a. aus der Sammlung des Pelizaeus-Museums zeigen, dass Modelle bereits im Altertum eine wichtige Vermittlungsrolle spielten.
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CIPEG e-News, 2020
A brief description of the interdisciplinary research project "KunstModell" focusing on its mater... more A brief description of the interdisciplinary research project "KunstModell" focusing on its material base, i.e., the Egyptian antiquities kept in the Museum August Kestner, Hanover, and the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim. Including photos of previously unpublished "model" objects.
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Up and Down the Nile - ägyptologische Studien für Regine Schulz. Herausgegeben von Martina Ullmann, Gabriele Pieke, Friedhelm Hoffmann und Christian Bayer, unter Mitarbeit von Sara Gebhardt, Ägypten und Altes Testament (ÄAT) , 2021
Publication of the uninscribed limestone sphinx statuette Hildesheim, PM 258. According to the mu... more Publication of the uninscribed limestone sphinx statuette Hildesheim, PM 258. According to the museum's inventory book the object was suspected to represent a modern sculpture during the turn of Otto Rubensohn as the Pelizaeus Museum's founding director (1907-1915). The object was nevertheless listed as an antiquity in the museum's first catalogue (G. Roeder/A. Ippel, Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim, Berlin/ Hildesheim 1921, p. 78). The present author dicusses the sculpture as an addendum (Nachtrag) to the forged Egyptian antiquities presented in the "Extrablatt - Beilage zum Ausstellungskatalog" which was published on the occasion of the Hildesheim opening of the special exhibition "Irrtümer und Fälschungen der Archäologie" [Errors and Forgeries in Archaeology] (24 Nov 2018 - 26 May 2019).
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Descriptions of National Museums in Egypt by Helmut Brandl
ANTIKE WELT - Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte, 2018
The archaeological museum of Suez merits a visit. It exhibits numerous important finds from nearb... more The archaeological museum of Suez merits a visit. It exhibits numerous important finds from nearby sites such as Kom el-Qulzum (ancient Clysma) and Awlad Abu Musa as well as significant antiquities from various sites including Abu Rawash, Tell el-Maskhuta (especially the so-called "Pithom Stela" of Ptolemy II) and Karnak.
The story of the ancient "Canal of the Pharaohs" (connecting the Nile and the Red Sea) allegedly going back to the reign of a "Senwosret" king, to Nekho II and Darius I is in the focus. A reassembled "Canal stela" of Darius I is exhibited in front of the modern museum building.
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ANTIKE WELT - Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte , 2017
Description of the recently renovated Ismailia Museum including a restored "Jardin des stèles".
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Kemet 1 (Berlin), 2010
Impressions from a magnificent National Museum which was opened in 2008 but closed in 2014 . It ... more Impressions from a magnificent National Museum which was opened in 2008 but closed in 2014 . It displayed a wealth of ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Islamic antiquities from North Sinai, the Eastern Delta, and other regions in Egypt.
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Kemet 3 (Berlin), 2008
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Kemet 4 (Berlin), 2007
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Kemet 4 (Berlin) , 2006
Report of a visit to Ismailia and its archaeological museum. It exhibits numerous significant obj... more Report of a visit to Ismailia and its archaeological museum. It exhibits numerous significant objects from nearby sites such as Tell el-Maskhouta and Saft el-Hinna as well as antiquities from Middle and Upper Egypt including the sites Tuna el-Gebel and Karnak (Cachette).
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Zagazig University Museum Background by Helmut Brandl
English and Arabic information on the Archaic cemetery of Kufur Nigm and the site of Bubastis (Te... more English and Arabic information on the Archaic cemetery of Kufur Nigm and the site of Bubastis (Tell Basta); these wall papers were designed by the M.i.N. project (Berlin) for the entry room of the University Museum of Zagazig .
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DAAD Project "Conservators and Archaeologists" by Helmut Brandl
Helmut Brandl, Hussein M. A. Ibrahim, Sven Kielau and Regine Schulz (eds), ANCIENT EGYPT IN THE MUSEUMS OF MALLAWI AND HILDESHEIM. Understanding, Communicating, and Preserving Material Culture. Training Students of Conservation and Archaeology (advance notice) , 2024
A richly illustrated catalogue of selected Egyptian antiquities. It represents the outcome of the... more A richly illustrated catalogue of selected Egyptian antiquities. It represents the outcome of the 2021 project “Conservators & Archaeologists” funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The volume (277 pages) includes contributions authored by the chief conservator of the Mallawi Museum, Mr. Mahmoud Mahran, by Prof. Dominika Hasse of the HAWK, by the specialized wood conservator Antje Zygalski, MA, by German archaeologists / egyptologists of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, and by advanced students of the Minia University, HAWK, and Göttingen University, jointly looking at and discussing in detail eleven outstanding antiquities preserved in the Mallawi Museum resp. in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (there is a focus on finds from the Minia Govt.).
A wooden kneeling figure said to be "from Saqqara" which was recently donated to the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (it was considered to represent a funerary model of the Old Kingdom) is also discussed - and dismissed as a modern forgery.
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BMBF Project "KunstModell" by Helmut Brandl
Theoretische, modellkundliche Überlegungen werden in einem Eingangsvideo vorgestellt (Konzept und Regie: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim. Weitere Mitwirkende: Dr. Bettina Schmitz, Mathias Salomon, M.A. und Dr. Helmut Brandl)
Die Ausstellung wurde gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BMBF). Sie ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts "Für eine gemeinsame Systembeschreibung von Modellen und Kunstwerken aus den antiken Kulturen Nordostafrikas" (KunstModell) und wurde im Rahmenprogramm Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften des BMBF mit dem Förderschwerpunkt "Sprache der Objekte" konzipiert.
Verantwortliche Projektleitung Hannover: Dr. Christian E. Loeben, Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Gestaltung: Bureau Sebastian Moock, Hannover
Beteiligte Institutionen: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Hochschule Wismar, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim und Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
Projektkoordination: Prof. Dr. Susanne Deicher, Wismar
CIPEG e-News 14, 2020 (also here on Academia.edu). - (in German)
Das interdisziplinäre Projekt, in dem Wissenschaftler:innen aus , Ägyptologie, Informatik und Kunstgeschichte zusammenarbeiten, heißt "KunstModell".
Im Rahmen der RPM-Sonderausstellung "Kräne – Brücken – Lokomotiven: Metallbauwelten von Märklin, Trix und Stabil" (gezeigt vom 09. Oktober 2020 bis zum 16. Januar 2022) wurden aus den archäologischen, ethnologischen und stadthistorischen Sammlungsbereichen des Museums Exponate ausgewählt, die die Verwendung von Modellen bereits vor langer Zeit bzw. in weit voneinander entfernten Weltgegenden illustrieren.
Zusätzlich werden auch Aspekte aus dem BMBF-Projekt "KunstModell" in der Ausstellung dargestellt. Hierbei sollen Beispiele v. a. aus der Sammlung des Pelizaeus-Museums zeigen, dass Modelle bereits im Altertum eine wichtige Vermittlungsrolle spielten.
Descriptions of National Museums in Egypt by Helmut Brandl
The story of the ancient "Canal of the Pharaohs" (connecting the Nile and the Red Sea) allegedly going back to the reign of a "Senwosret" king, to Nekho II and Darius I is in the focus. A reassembled "Canal stela" of Darius I is exhibited in front of the modern museum building.
Zagazig University Museum Background by Helmut Brandl
DAAD Project "Conservators and Archaeologists" by Helmut Brandl
The volume (277 pages) includes contributions authored by the chief conservator of the Mallawi Museum, Mr. Mahmoud Mahran, by Prof. Dominika Hasse of the HAWK, by the specialized wood conservator Antje Zygalski, MA, by German archaeologists / egyptologists of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, and by advanced students of the Minia University, HAWK, and Göttingen University, jointly looking at and discussing in detail eleven outstanding antiquities preserved in the Mallawi Museum resp. in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (there is a focus on finds from the Minia Govt.).
A wooden kneeling figure said to be "from Saqqara" which was recently donated to the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (it was considered to represent a funerary model of the Old Kingdom) is also discussed - and dismissed as a modern forgery.
Theoretische, modellkundliche Überlegungen werden in einem Eingangsvideo vorgestellt (Konzept und Regie: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim. Weitere Mitwirkende: Dr. Bettina Schmitz, Mathias Salomon, M.A. und Dr. Helmut Brandl)
Die Ausstellung wurde gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BMBF). Sie ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts "Für eine gemeinsame Systembeschreibung von Modellen und Kunstwerken aus den antiken Kulturen Nordostafrikas" (KunstModell) und wurde im Rahmenprogramm Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften des BMBF mit dem Förderschwerpunkt "Sprache der Objekte" konzipiert.
Verantwortliche Projektleitung Hannover: Dr. Christian E. Loeben, Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Gestaltung: Bureau Sebastian Moock, Hannover
Beteiligte Institutionen: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Hochschule Wismar, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim und Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
Projektkoordination: Prof. Dr. Susanne Deicher, Wismar
CIPEG e-News 14, 2020 (also here on Academia.edu). - (in German)
Das interdisziplinäre Projekt, in dem Wissenschaftler:innen aus , Ägyptologie, Informatik und Kunstgeschichte zusammenarbeiten, heißt "KunstModell".
Im Rahmen der RPM-Sonderausstellung "Kräne – Brücken – Lokomotiven: Metallbauwelten von Märklin, Trix und Stabil" (gezeigt vom 09. Oktober 2020 bis zum 16. Januar 2022) wurden aus den archäologischen, ethnologischen und stadthistorischen Sammlungsbereichen des Museums Exponate ausgewählt, die die Verwendung von Modellen bereits vor langer Zeit bzw. in weit voneinander entfernten Weltgegenden illustrieren.
Zusätzlich werden auch Aspekte aus dem BMBF-Projekt "KunstModell" in der Ausstellung dargestellt. Hierbei sollen Beispiele v. a. aus der Sammlung des Pelizaeus-Museums zeigen, dass Modelle bereits im Altertum eine wichtige Vermittlungsrolle spielten.
The story of the ancient "Canal of the Pharaohs" (connecting the Nile and the Red Sea) allegedly going back to the reign of a "Senwosret" king, to Nekho II and Darius I is in the focus. A reassembled "Canal stela" of Darius I is exhibited in front of the modern museum building.
The volume (277 pages) includes contributions authored by the chief conservator of the Mallawi Museum, Mr. Mahmoud Mahran, by Prof. Dominika Hasse of the HAWK, by the specialized wood conservator Antje Zygalski, MA, by German archaeologists / egyptologists of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, and by advanced students of the Minia University, HAWK, and Göttingen University, jointly looking at and discussing in detail eleven outstanding antiquities preserved in the Mallawi Museum resp. in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (there is a focus on finds from the Minia Govt.).
A wooden kneeling figure said to be "from Saqqara" which was recently donated to the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum (it was considered to represent a funerary model of the Old Kingdom) is also discussed - and dismissed as a modern forgery.
1. Statue head of a Theban priest of Amun (Hildesheim, PM 5583);
2. Temple relief of Ptolemy II before the goddess Isis (Hildesheim, PM 1911);
3. Head of a goddess from a standard-bearing statue (PM 5921);
4. Amulet (pendant) representing the god Shed (PM 5921).
Photography: Mathias Salomon / Sharokh Shalchi (RPM)
Link: https://aegyptiaca-kestneriana.de/b1/brandl-krauss-loeben/
For the online series "AEGYPTIACA KESTNERIANA", vols. 1 and 2, see: https://aegyptiaca-kestneriana.de/b1/
The contribution to the exhibition catalogue adds to the understanding of the innovative exhibition concept which ist diachrone and intercultural. It decribes abstract ceramic sculptures and vessels from Bornholm as well as antiquities from five cultural milieus as works of art in their respective contexts.
A statue fragment of Sheshonq I in the Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum is discussed as an usurped piece bearing secondary hieroglyphic inscriptions that have been ignored thus far (excursus by Jan Moje). Further prominence is given to Sheshonq V who reigned towards the end of the Libyan Period and who favored archaizing imagery; he became one of the protagonists of an artistic tradition that survived well into the 7th and 6th centuries BCE (i.e., Late Period archaism). Still it must be said that Egyptian royal depictions of the Third Intermediate Period are very traditional and lack individuality. It is concluded that any influence related to the Sesonchosis Romance is therefore quite unlikely.
(1.) Berlin Egyptian Museum, VÄGM 1997/118, known as "statue head of Amenophis III";
(2.) Munich, State Museum of Egyptian Art, ÄS 6770, originally published as "statue head of Amenophis III", later called "Thutmosis IV";
(3.) fragmentary seated pair statuette, originally published as "Ahmose and Ahmes-Nefertari (?)", later called "Amenophis I and Nefertari" and "a Ramesside work of art" (privately owned though at a time exhibited at the Munich State Museum of Egyptian Art).
The author further presents a series of five similar "statue heads" allegedly representing Amenophis III which he compares to the Berlin head (1.) and which he likewise identifies as modern sculptures.
The article includes comments on several other "New Kingdom royal statue heads" (known from German publications) which the author regards as forgeries (they are not discussed in detail):
- Munich, ÄS 7276, called "Sethy I"; a white stone head in the Upper Egyptian crown attributed to "Thutmosis IV" (privately owned);
- a "red jasper head of a composite statue of Sethy I or Rameses II", later called "statue head of Hatshepsut", and
- a quartzite head of an "Amarna princess". The latter two sculptures are privately owned and known from their exhibition at the Munich State Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art.
The author calls for improved research possibilities at Universities and a better training in Egyptian art for students, especially in Germany, in order to avoid costly acquisitions of forgeries for museums and private collections in the future.
Based on comparisons with inscribed statues of the 12th and 13th Dynasty from sites other than Thebes - especially the "high relief sculpture" originally depicting three standing (striding) high-priests of Ptah (Louvre, A 67), and focussing on the facial features of the high-priest, Nebpu, the creation of the statue head, Munich, ÄS 1622, during the late Middle Kingdom (instead of the Late Period) and a Memphite background are considered by the present author.
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