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On many hypocephali one of the pictorial registers shows the meeting of the solar and lunar boats. The analysis of the cosmographic scheme of these funerary objects and the comparison of the scene with other astronomical depictions demonstrate that the encounter between the sun and the moon represents the situation when they are both dwelling in the liminal zones of the netherworld, close to the western and eastern horizons, respectively. The lunar boat is in fact a proxy playing the role of the morning barque of more traditional representations that show the two solar boats prow to prow. Weblink: http://birminghamegyptology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-encounter-between-the-sun-and-the-moon-on-hypocephali.pdf?06c46e
JSSEA 39 (2012-13)
"Ptolemaic Mummy Masks with Spells from the Book of the Dead Concerning the Head", JSSEA 39 (2012-13), 51-852014 •
Abstract: To date, four Ptolemaic mummy masks with chapter 151a of the Book of the Dead (spell with Anubis and the mask) inscribed on a fillet around the head are known: a mask at the Louvre and one in Bonn – both of which showing a hypocephalus on the top of head, a mask in Florence, and one from Abydos, whose location is unknown. The mask in Florence is inscribed also with BD 19 (spell for the wreath of justification), and other texts. There are four more masks with BD 151a in museums – one of which is inscribed also with BD 162 (spell to cause a flame at the head), and two masks with BD 19, one of which is to date unpublished. This paper focuses on the analysis of the mostly unedited texts on the masks. A spell around the edge of the hypocephali reveals important concepts surrounding the transfiguration of the deceased into a luminous and “effective” being. The spells, which were associated with amulets, form part of the protective, apotropaic and revivifying measures associated with the head. Résumé: La littérature précédemment mentionnait quatre masques ptolémaiques de momies sur lesquels le chapitre 151a du Livre des Morts (formule avec Anubis et la masque) est inscrit sur un ruban autour de la tête: un masque au Louvre et l'autre à Bonn – tous les deux en montrant un hypocéphale sur le dessus de la tête –, un masque à Florence, et un d’Abydos, dont l’emplacement est inconnu. Le masque à Florence est inscrit en outre avec LM 19 (formule pour la couronne de la justification), et d'autres textes. Il y a quatre autres masques avec LM 151a dans les musées – un des lesquels est inscrit en outre avec LM 162 (formule pour provoquer une flamme à la tête) –, et deux masques avec LM 19, un des lesquels précédemment inédit. Cet article se concentre sur l’analyse des textes sur les masques, pour la plupart inédites. Une formule autour de bord des hypocéphales implique importants concepts sur la transfiguration du mort dans un être lumineux et “efficace.” Les formules, utilisés avec les amulettes, représentaient moyens protecteurs, apotropaiques et revivifiants associés à la tête.
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A study of the texts in the hypocephalus Turin Cat. 2320, probably dated to the Ptolemaic period, is presented in this paper considering variants in other examples. Other types of texts around the rim of hypocephali, for example those devoted to Djebaty, or with excerpts from spell 162 of the Book of the Dead, present more canonical meanings. Interesting references to the main components of the deceased – ka, ba, akh, and the corpse – can be identified in the texts around the rim and in the various registers. Noteworthy, in particular, is the concept of the ba of Amun that becomes the multiplicity of the universe, which, as Jan Assmann indicated, the Theban clergy of the Ramesside period developed from the Amarnian idea of “One-and-million”.
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A kind tribute by Dr Telo CANHAO (University of Lisbon), also reviewing the book Archaeopress Egyptology 17 (= Nut Astrophoros - Liber Amicorum).
in Cadmo 28 (2019), Revista de História Antiga/Journal for Ancient History of the Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, pp. 235-249, ISSN 0871-9527/eISSN 2183-7937.
Nadine GUILHOU (ed.), Liber Amicorum - Speculum Siderum: Nut Astrophoros. Papers Presented to Alicia Maravelia, Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing/Archaeopress Egyptology 17, 2016, 374 pp., ISBN 978 1 78491 522 3 (English version).2019 •
Archaeology Ireland 29(1), 26-33,
'Here comes the sun....' solar symbolism in Early Bronze Age Ireland2015 •
This short article is an attempt to articulate some new ideas about the real nature and function of the gold objects that are the most commonly encountered in the earliest goldwork from Ireland and Britain—discs and lunulae.
Historically, the two ‘great traditions’ of north European rock art – the South Scandinavian type and the hunters’ rock art of the north – have been studied by diff erent scholars working within diff erent research traditions. Even though the two rock art traditions overlap in both space and time, and show some evidence of communication and interaction, the scholarly traditions rarely do, but tend to interpret each type of rock art according to models that seem oblivious to each other. This paper takes a look at the interpretations off ered for a single type of motif in South Scandinavian rock art, the ‘sun ship’ or a ship fi gure that is associated with or attached to a symbol of the sun, and examines it in the context of the hunters’ rock art. Ever since Oscar Almgren and others, the motif has played a central role in interpretations of Bronze Age rock art: it has been associated with elements of Indo-European mythology, and its roots have been traced to the Mediterranean world and Ancient Egypt. However, there is a lesser known research tradition, represented mainly by Russian and North American scholars, that points out parallels to the same motif also in the rock art of the northern circumpolar zone. Given other evidence of rock art phenomena with a circumpolar distribution, as well as the general resurgence of circumpolar studies, these ‘sun ships of the east’ do not appear isolated or incidental but would merit more attention in interpretations of South Scandinavian rock art.
Advances in Astrophysics
The Acceleration of the Moon and the Universe – the Mass of the GravitonThe Workman's Progress: Studies in the Village of Deir el-Medina and other Documents from Western Thebes in Honour of Rob Demarée (eds. B.J.J. Haring, O.E. Kaper and R. van Walsem)
Sideshow or not? On the Side-Rooms of the First Two Corridors in the Tomb of Ramesses III2014 •
Temporal Concepts and Perception of Time in the Ancient Orient. Proceedings of the Workshop "Calendar Festivals of the Ancient Orient" (held in St. Petersburg 20th-21th November 2020) / Ed. V.V. Emelianov. St. Petersburg, 2021. P. 55–98
The Concept of Time, Astronomical Cycles and Vegetation Periods as Reflected in Ancient Egyptian Festivals and Tomb Decorations2015 •
Kousoulis P., & Lazaridis, N., (eds), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008. Leuven.
Five significant features in Old Kingdom spear-fishing and fowling scenes2015 •
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
Dilmun boats on seals, horned figureheads, and the serpent/dragon slaying myth, c. 2050–1500 BCRecords of the Australian Museum
Egyptian funerary boat model in the Australian Museum: dating and analysisG. Rocca, G. Bevilacqua (eds), Gift of a Book. Studi in memoria di David Jordan
K. Endreffy and Á. M. Nagy, "Apolyson apo pankakou!" A recently-surfaced magical gem2020 •
Irish Lives Remembered, Issue 46, Autumn, 2-9.
The Solar Boat at Knowth (County Meath)2019 •
Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005.
Manufacture of solar cells on the moon2005 •
Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy
On the Dynamics of Weak Stability Boundary Lunar Transfers2001 •
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies
Circulating melody in the key of sapphire: Paradiso 23On a cylinder seal Utu travels in the barge of abundance
On a cylinder seal Utu travels in the barge of abundance2018 •