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CV -Dr. Reda
CV -Dr. Reda
Dr. Reda AttallaRelated Papers
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Gods & Humans in Ancient Egypt. Current Research & Multidisciplinary Approaches
Time of Creation, Creation of Time - Temporal Conceptions in the Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (ca. 1539-1077 BC)2020 •
In ancient Egypt, Time was part of the whole “being” that was brought into existence by the Creator deity. Indeed, to create is inevitably to inaugurate Time. In the religious hymns of the New Kingdom (ca. 1539-1077 BC), not only is the Demiurge acknowledged as the Time’s author, he himself acts both as an agent and recipient of Time. In this corpus, one finds explicit mentions to the de facto creation of time. The Demiurge may be accounted for the creation of the two primary Egyptian temporal conceptions - D.t (e.g., Cai- ro CG 58038, I.4) and nHH (e.g., BM EA10470.20-21, 30). Furthermore, the temporal mentions in this textual ensemble range from particular points in time - the Creator being labelled as “Primordi- al” (pAwty; e.g., Louvre C 286, 4) for having emerged in the “First Time” (sp tpj; e.g., Copenhagen AEIN 49, 4) - to temporal continuums, rendered, namely, by the sun-god’s daily voyage, which im- plies the setting and passing of time (e.g., Chicago E14053, 2-3). In this regard, the deity is also de- picted as an individual at different age stages, from a “young child” (e.g., TT 84(8)) to the “oldest of heaven and earth” (e.g., TT 57(6), 5-6). In this talk, I intend to consider the place of Time in the religious hymns of the New King- dom. I shall envisage it not only as an outcome of the demiurgical task but also as a medium th- rough which the deity intervenes in the world, on both individual and cosmic levels. Relating it to the concepts of creatio prima and creatio continua, this paper will address this issue both synchro- nically and diachronically, navigating through the cosmogonical perspectives and conceptions em- bodied in this corpus as a whole.
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New Kingdom Private Theban Tombs: places of interaction between the living, the dead and the gods2020 •
Private Theban tombs dated to the New Kingdom belonged to a high-status population. They are funerary monuments thought as houses of eternity, where the deceased could live forever after his death. But these tombs are also liminal spaces where the borders of the realm of the living and that of the dead could be erased so the dead, the living, and the gods could contact. This happened during some special events, such us the celebration of banquets during the Beautiful Feast of the Valley, when tombs were open to visits. Within the banquet scenes painted on the tombs we can see some symbols, as the unguent cone, or figures, such as dancers or musicians, that would make this communication between the different realms easier. But this contact also took place through the texts and scenes that decorated these tombs, for example through the Appeal to the Living, and through the offerings or the Letters to the Dead. Another moment of interaction between the living, the dead and the gods in the necropolis is the funeral itself. During this ritual the muu dancers acted as some kind of demi-gods and contacted with the gods and the world of the dead to approve the burial in the world of the living. But also the mourners depicted in these processions communicated with the dead through their laments. This paper aims to analyse these elements and occasions, as well as their presence and depiction in New Kingdom private tombs, to establish the most important moments of communication and interaction between the living, the dead, and the gods within the private Theban tombs.
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Physically based rendering (PBR) of Egyptian collection at Brooklyn Museum: New methods for photorealistic rendering2020 •
Physically based rendering (PBR) is an approach in computer graphics that seeks to render graphics in a way that more accurately models the flow of light in the real world. Photogrammetry may be used to help discover and encode accurate optical properties of materials. The paper presents methods for photorealistic rendering of virtual objects at Brooklyn museum so that they can be seamlessly composited into images of the real world. To generate predictable and consistent results, we study physically based methods, which simulate how light propagates in a mathematical model of the augmented scene. This computationally challenging problem demands both efficient and accurate simulation of the light transport in the scene, as well as detailed modeling of the geometries, illumination conditions, and material properties. In this presentation, we discuss and formulate the challenges inherent in these steps and present several methods to make the process more efficient. This work-in-progress 3D imaging project by the Egyptology Program at Indiana University Bloomington. The paper also presents use the development of a methodology for the virtual anastylosis (re-erection) of five sculptural fragments belonging to Ramesses II located in Tanis, Egypt. Fundamental to the method is photogrammetry to create 3d modeling of fragments. Through this process we are able to visually re-assemble the fragments without intervening directly on the pieces.
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Recenzja: Jan Kochel, Katecheza u źródeł Ewangelii, Księgarnia św. Wojciecha, Poznań 2007, ss. 124, ISBN 83-7015-927-3
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