Talks by Andrea Fanciulli
Il Museo Egizio di Torino conserva una delle più importanti collezioni di papiri ieratici dal vil... more Il Museo Egizio di Torino conserva una delle più importanti collezioni di papiri ieratici dal villaggio di Deir el-Medina. Alcuni frammenti recano inni e preghiere dedicate ai sovrani della XX dinastia (1190-1076 a.C.). Il progetto di dottorato di Andrea Fanciulli si occupa dello studio di questi documenti e, attraverso l’analisi materiale e testuale, intende gettar luce sul modo in cui gli operai del faraone, dediti a lavorare per “assicurargli l’eternità”, creassero e comunicassero l’immagine del sovrano. Nel corso della conferenza, verranno presentati alcuni degli inni più interessanti dalla collezione torinese, cercando di metterne in luce il contenuto nel panorama più ampio della propaganda dell’ideologia reale.
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In my paper, I will present a three-year PhD project – financed by the Museo Egizio – with the ai... more In my paper, I will present a three-year PhD project – financed by the Museo Egizio – with the aim of understanding how pictorial and written images of the king were constructed by the Deir el-Medina community during the Twentieth dynasty. Indeed, although the tomb builders of Pharaoh were working for the king’s eternity, they could never interact directly with the king, who is a quite evanescent figure in the administrative texts from the village. Despite that, people of Deir el-Medina represented and described the Pharaoh on many occasions. Through the study of a variety of sources from Deir el-Medina, I propose to describe patterns of representation – the way the king was conceived by the villagers – and of interaction – the way the interaction with this human/divine figurewas envisioned.
As part of this study, I will produce a complete edition of selected texts from papyri collated in the Museo Egizio of Turin, namely the following three manuscripts: p. Cat.1892 + Cat.1886 + Cat.1893; p. Cat. 1923 + Cat. 2073/146 + Cat. 2082/171 + Cat. 2083/180; p. CGT54038. Along with other text types, these papyri contain some interesting hymns to the king, which should help to shed light on my research question.
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According to ancient Egyptian belief, the various diseases which afflicted men were perceived as ... more According to ancient Egyptian belief, the various diseases which afflicted men were perceived as being caused both by natural and supernatural powers. As a consequence, sickness could be treated with a combination of medicine and magical utterances, with natural medicaments or, seldom, entirely with magic. Moreover, the Egyptian practitioner seems to have invoked magic not only for diseases with less obvious supernatural causes, but also for common daily afflictions and injuries, such as headache, belly- pains, snakebites, scorpion’s stings or burns. Through his incantations, the healer might confront the illness directly and he might transfer the whole scenario of sickness and healing into the divine sphere by referring to a similar mythological situation. By identifying the patient with a god sickened with the same illness and subsequently cured, the doctor could make the divine healing available for the patient himself. It is likely that the ad hoc creation of new myths – the so called "artificial mythology" – represented an important part of ancient Egyptian medicine. That is the case of young Horus in the desert, suffering from a burn and helped by Isis.
This contribution proposes to analyse in particular the incantations recited in reference to burns, mostly from the papyri Leiden I 348, London Medical, Ebers and Chester Beatty VII. Focusing mainly on the texts, the aim is to identify the mythological context used for the healing, examining at the same time some parallels from the corpus of anti-scorpion and anti-snake spells.
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According to the Egyptian worldview, dead people were included among the supernatural causes of d... more According to the Egyptian worldview, dead people were included among the supernatural causes of disease and illness. Together with gods, goddess, demons and the malevolent magic of personal enemies, they were believed to harm the living by entering and attacking specific parts of the victim's body, such as the head, the belly, the eyes and so forth. As a pathogen, the hostile dead recurs in most prescriptions, spells and incantations throughout the medical corpus.
In contrast, some Letters to the Dead stress a different role for the spirits of dead people. Recently dead members of the family, such as husbands, wives or parents, were believed to intervene in the afterlife to put an end to whatever might be going wrong in the relative's life, including illness.
This discussion proposes to explore the ambiguity in the conception of the deceased, both a pathogen and a vehicle for healing, trying to comprehend the place he occupied in the system of values of old Egyptian afflicted people.
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Secondo il pensiero egiziano, le diverse malattie che colpivano l'uomo erano determinate da cause... more Secondo il pensiero egiziano, le diverse malattie che colpivano l'uomo erano determinate da cause sia naturali che sovrannaturali. In genere, ferite come le fratture o le lussazioni potevano essere spiegate in termini meccanici, giacché l’origine di tali affezioni era solitamente evidente. D'altro canto, se un paziente lamentava sintomi generici, come febbre, spossatezza o malessere generale, l'esame clinico diveniva più ostico. Il principio patogeno che non si era in grado di spiegare era, perciò, da riferirsi inevitabilmente alla potenza di un agente sovrannaturale.
Quest'ultimo s'insinuava nel corpo dall'esterno e poteva essere combattuto con la sola arma idonea: la magia. I medici potevano ingaggiare una vera e propria lotta nel tentativo di scacciare queste entità, che le fonti permettono di distinguere principalmente in due gruppi: dèi, demoni e spiriti dei defunti da un lato, gli incantesimi ostili ad opera di un nemico dall'altro.
Lungi dal tenere in minor conto queste cause rispetto a quelle propriamente naturali, i medici egiziani individuarono negli agenti patogeni sovrannaturali una struttura cognitiva peculiare, entro la quale agire e combattere le malattie empiricamente inspiegabili.
In questa sede, ci si propone di analizzare specificamente i principi patogeni d'origine sovrannaturale, facendo riferimento alle principali fonti testuali ed epigrafiche in nostro possesso: i papiri medici e magico-medici. Questi ultimi iniziano ad apparire nel Medio Regno, sebbene la maggior parte delle copie conservate sia databile al Nuovo Regno.
Si cercherà, altresì, di definire i tratti di queste entità nemiche, tentando anche di comprenderne il campo d'azione e se, effettivamente, fossero riconducibili alle sole malattie non spiegabili in termini meccanici.
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New Kingdom Hieratic Collections From Around the World, 2024
This book is the first in a series of volumes designed to provide a detailed overview of the New ... more This book is the first in a series of volumes designed to provide a detailed overview of the New Kingdom hieratic materials preserved in various museums and public collections around the world. Each volume is arranged geographically and proceeds in alphabetic order—continent by continent and country by country. Volume 1 opens with a complete overview of the New Kingdom hieratic material in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is followed by overviews of 18 European museums and 3 North American collections.
The endeavour is directly connected to the interdisciplinary project Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt, a joint venture of the University of Basel, the University of Liège, and the Museo Egizio (Turin). Since 2019, the Crossing Boundaries project has targeted the rich papyrological materials from the village of Deir el-Medina (c. 1350–1050 BCE) held in the Museo Egizio, seeking to enhance our understanding of the scribal practices that lie behind the production of the texts from this community.
The driving methodological motto of Crossing Boundaries has been to adopt a contextualized approach to these written documents. As progress was made on the Deir el-Medina materials, the need to develop a clearer picture of all the hieratic texts available from the same period quickly became evident, which is met by the present publication. https://pressesuniversitairesdeliege.be/produit/new-kingdom-hieratic-collections-from-around-the-world/
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In Polis, Stéphane (ed.), Guide des écritures de l'Égypte ancienne, 174-175. Le Caire., 2022
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In Di Natale, Anna and Corrado Basile (eds), Atti del XVI Convegno di Egittologia e Papirologia: Siracusa, 29 settembre – 2 ottobre 2016, 479–498. Siracusa: Istituto internazionale del papiro – Museo del papiro, 2018
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Talks by Andrea Fanciulli
As part of this study, I will produce a complete edition of selected texts from papyri collated in the Museo Egizio of Turin, namely the following three manuscripts: p. Cat.1892 + Cat.1886 + Cat.1893; p. Cat. 1923 + Cat. 2073/146 + Cat. 2082/171 + Cat. 2083/180; p. CGT54038. Along with other text types, these papyri contain some interesting hymns to the king, which should help to shed light on my research question.
This contribution proposes to analyse in particular the incantations recited in reference to burns, mostly from the papyri Leiden I 348, London Medical, Ebers and Chester Beatty VII. Focusing mainly on the texts, the aim is to identify the mythological context used for the healing, examining at the same time some parallels from the corpus of anti-scorpion and anti-snake spells.
In contrast, some Letters to the Dead stress a different role for the spirits of dead people. Recently dead members of the family, such as husbands, wives or parents, were believed to intervene in the afterlife to put an end to whatever might be going wrong in the relative's life, including illness.
This discussion proposes to explore the ambiguity in the conception of the deceased, both a pathogen and a vehicle for healing, trying to comprehend the place he occupied in the system of values of old Egyptian afflicted people.
Quest'ultimo s'insinuava nel corpo dall'esterno e poteva essere combattuto con la sola arma idonea: la magia. I medici potevano ingaggiare una vera e propria lotta nel tentativo di scacciare queste entità, che le fonti permettono di distinguere principalmente in due gruppi: dèi, demoni e spiriti dei defunti da un lato, gli incantesimi ostili ad opera di un nemico dall'altro.
Lungi dal tenere in minor conto queste cause rispetto a quelle propriamente naturali, i medici egiziani individuarono negli agenti patogeni sovrannaturali una struttura cognitiva peculiare, entro la quale agire e combattere le malattie empiricamente inspiegabili.
In questa sede, ci si propone di analizzare specificamente i principi patogeni d'origine sovrannaturale, facendo riferimento alle principali fonti testuali ed epigrafiche in nostro possesso: i papiri medici e magico-medici. Questi ultimi iniziano ad apparire nel Medio Regno, sebbene la maggior parte delle copie conservate sia databile al Nuovo Regno.
Si cercherà, altresì, di definire i tratti di queste entità nemiche, tentando anche di comprenderne il campo d'azione e se, effettivamente, fossero riconducibili alle sole malattie non spiegabili in termini meccanici.
Thesis by Andrea Fanciulli
Books by Andrea Fanciulli
The endeavour is directly connected to the interdisciplinary project Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt, a joint venture of the University of Basel, the University of Liège, and the Museo Egizio (Turin). Since 2019, the Crossing Boundaries project has targeted the rich papyrological materials from the village of Deir el-Medina (c. 1350–1050 BCE) held in the Museo Egizio, seeking to enhance our understanding of the scribal practices that lie behind the production of the texts from this community.
The driving methodological motto of Crossing Boundaries has been to adopt a contextualized approach to these written documents. As progress was made on the Deir el-Medina materials, the need to develop a clearer picture of all the hieratic texts available from the same period quickly became evident, which is met by the present publication. https://pressesuniversitairesdeliege.be/produit/new-kingdom-hieratic-collections-from-around-the-world/
Papers by Andrea Fanciulli
As part of this study, I will produce a complete edition of selected texts from papyri collated in the Museo Egizio of Turin, namely the following three manuscripts: p. Cat.1892 + Cat.1886 + Cat.1893; p. Cat. 1923 + Cat. 2073/146 + Cat. 2082/171 + Cat. 2083/180; p. CGT54038. Along with other text types, these papyri contain some interesting hymns to the king, which should help to shed light on my research question.
This contribution proposes to analyse in particular the incantations recited in reference to burns, mostly from the papyri Leiden I 348, London Medical, Ebers and Chester Beatty VII. Focusing mainly on the texts, the aim is to identify the mythological context used for the healing, examining at the same time some parallels from the corpus of anti-scorpion and anti-snake spells.
In contrast, some Letters to the Dead stress a different role for the spirits of dead people. Recently dead members of the family, such as husbands, wives or parents, were believed to intervene in the afterlife to put an end to whatever might be going wrong in the relative's life, including illness.
This discussion proposes to explore the ambiguity in the conception of the deceased, both a pathogen and a vehicle for healing, trying to comprehend the place he occupied in the system of values of old Egyptian afflicted people.
Quest'ultimo s'insinuava nel corpo dall'esterno e poteva essere combattuto con la sola arma idonea: la magia. I medici potevano ingaggiare una vera e propria lotta nel tentativo di scacciare queste entità, che le fonti permettono di distinguere principalmente in due gruppi: dèi, demoni e spiriti dei defunti da un lato, gli incantesimi ostili ad opera di un nemico dall'altro.
Lungi dal tenere in minor conto queste cause rispetto a quelle propriamente naturali, i medici egiziani individuarono negli agenti patogeni sovrannaturali una struttura cognitiva peculiare, entro la quale agire e combattere le malattie empiricamente inspiegabili.
In questa sede, ci si propone di analizzare specificamente i principi patogeni d'origine sovrannaturale, facendo riferimento alle principali fonti testuali ed epigrafiche in nostro possesso: i papiri medici e magico-medici. Questi ultimi iniziano ad apparire nel Medio Regno, sebbene la maggior parte delle copie conservate sia databile al Nuovo Regno.
Si cercherà, altresì, di definire i tratti di queste entità nemiche, tentando anche di comprenderne il campo d'azione e se, effettivamente, fossero riconducibili alle sole malattie non spiegabili in termini meccanici.
The endeavour is directly connected to the interdisciplinary project Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt, a joint venture of the University of Basel, the University of Liège, and the Museo Egizio (Turin). Since 2019, the Crossing Boundaries project has targeted the rich papyrological materials from the village of Deir el-Medina (c. 1350–1050 BCE) held in the Museo Egizio, seeking to enhance our understanding of the scribal practices that lie behind the production of the texts from this community.
The driving methodological motto of Crossing Boundaries has been to adopt a contextualized approach to these written documents. As progress was made on the Deir el-Medina materials, the need to develop a clearer picture of all the hieratic texts available from the same period quickly became evident, which is met by the present publication. https://pressesuniversitairesdeliege.be/produit/new-kingdom-hieratic-collections-from-around-the-world/