Egypt in tthe Roman world

This review article addresses current controversies and opportunities in research on the roles, uses, and meanings of “Egypt” in ancient Roman visual and material culture. Accordingly, the article investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of current scholarly approaches; and analyzes the field’s intersections with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to, (1) 21st-century archaeology’s “material turn”; (2) the construction of new interpretive frameworks for cross-cultural interactions and “hybridization”; and (3) increased attention to the relationships among artifacts, contexts, and assemblages. Roman visual representations of Egypt provide a rich testing ground for research on intercultural exchange, the lived experience of empire, and the complex entanglement of people, things, and images.

This article aims at giving an overall view of the real and mythical topography of the Abaton of Biggeh, which housed a relic, the left leg of the God Osiris, in connection with the rituals. After a geographical and archaeological presentation, I will stress in particular the different species of trees growing on and around the Abaton. A new French translation will be provided, with commentary, of the Abaton Decree, in relation to the depictions on the Gate of Hadrian in the temple of Philae. A discussion of all the classical sources in chronological order will follow, in order to draw comparisons with the Egyptian sources. Lastly, the possible location and spatial organization of the Abaton in comparison with other sacred mounds will be addressed.

The study addresses the legal rules that allowed in Rome and in some Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, especially Egypt, women to serve as guardians or to assist the guardian of their prepubescent children. In Rome, mothers as guardians are attested during the second century by individual imperial concession, and the mother as manager in aid to the guardian is amply attested in the classical age. In Egypt, mothers could serve as guardians, appointed by a private act of the husband (since the beginning of the province until 212 AD), while in connection to the guardian (with the name ἐπακολουθήτρια) they appear only from the first half of the second century ad. the author questions the mutual influences between the two sets of rules.

Nel presente articolo si esaminano le norme giuridiche in base alle quali a Roma e in alcune province orientali dell'impero romano, soprattutto l'Egitto, la madre poteva essere tutrice o poteva svolgere fuzioni di ausilio al tutore dei propri figli impuberi. A Roma la madre tutrice appare attestata già dal secondo secolo per concessione imperiale individuale, e la madre amministratrice in ausilio al tutore è ampiamente attestata in età classica. In Egitto la madre tutrice, nominata con atto privato del marito, compare dalle origini della provincia e fino al 212 d.C., mentre, affiancata al tutore, con il nome di ἐπακολουθήτρια, è documentata solo dalla prima metà del secondo secolo d.C. In dottrina ci si è interrogati circa le influenze reciproche tra i due sistemi di norme. L'autore conclude che è legittimo ipotizzare che la scomparsa della madre tutrice egizia dopo il 212 sia stata causata dalla diffusione del diritto romano nelle province a seguito della Constitutio Antoniniana, mentre non sembra possibile rinvenire altre reciproche influenze. In particolare, si nega che la madre amministratrice romana sia derivata dall'ἐπακολουθήτρια egizia.

This paper analyzes an extensive text and very useful of Pliny about the Egyptian obelisks who were transferred to Rome between years 30 B.C. to 79 A.D. One of them, the named “Vaticanus”, is the central subject of this paper. It is possible to detect in Pliny’s text some serious problems on this Egyptian monument, mainly contradictions and different mistakes related with his historical path, and his solution is not easy. We will see that the nature and quality of the sources used by Pliny are considered as very problematical in this occasion.

The iconography and titulature present on three theban stelae in which Augustus appears represented as
pharaoh-emperor (Cairo BN 311 and Bucheum nos 13 and 14) allow for some observations and considerations towards the explanation of the causes and bases of the “egyptian” image of the emperor, which are very much
opposed to the public and official image disseminated by the emperor cult through the rest of the imperial provinces.

A review of the third known representation of a three wheeled mobility aid and the first with a practical application.  This paper is to encourage discussion on the British Museum item GR 1996. 7-12.2 It discusses the representation, gender, age of object, physical impairment, walking aids, fashion, hairstyle and general purpose of the model in the context of the evolution of three wheeled transport history.

"An unusul type - Egyptian (motives) on a (Roman Campana) terracotta-plaque" - Presentation an discussion of an unusual Campana-Relief with Egyptian motives and hieroglyphes in Museum August Kestner, Hannover / Germany (inv. no. 2008.233), previously considered to be a fake. However, two other plaques probably even from the same mould are known and have since been studied in detail by the author (British Museum and Louvre), both of which are complete plaques, however, by far not as well conserved as the piece in Hannover, only a fragment (approx. a little less than the left half). - PLEASE NOTE: By Christian E. Loeben is also the (much shorter) English (!) entry on this piece in the following, more recent exhibition catalogue: BEYOND THE NILE - EGYPT AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2018), p. 273-274, cat. 172. - (in German)

This review article addresses current controversies and opportunities in research on the roles, uses, and meanings of “Egypt” in ancient Roman visual and material culture. Accordingly, the article investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of current scholarly approaches; and analyzes the field’s intersections with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to, (1) 21st-century archaeology’s “material turn”; (2) the construction of new interpretive frameworks for cross-cultural interactions and “hybridization”; and (3) increased attention to the relationships among artifacts, contexts, and assemblages. Roman visual representations of Egypt provide a rich testing ground for research on intercultural exchange, the lived experience of empire, and the complex entanglement of people, things, and i...

A review of the third known representation of a three wheeled mobility aid, the first with a practical application.  This paper is to encourage discussion on the British Museum item GR 1996. 7-12.2 It discusses the representation, gender, age of object, physical impairment, walking aids, fashion, hairstyle and general purpose of the model in the context of the evolution of three wheeled transport history. Revised version contains updates, minor typos corrected and some additional information.

Dear Colleagues,
it is my honor to invite you to participate in our International Conference of Egyptology, at Hyperion University of Bucharest, Romania, 12-14 June 2020,
GODS & HUMANS IN ANCIENT EGYPT. CURRENT RESEARCH AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Please see attached the Call for Papers.
We are looking forward to see you in Bucharest!
We wish you have a fabulous year ahead!
Sincerely,
Professor Doctor Renata Tatomir

In the Symposium, scheduled speakers include Prof. Janice Yellin of Babson College, on Egypt and Nubia; Dr. Emily Cole of ISAW; and Dr. Gregory Dundas, whose dissertation was entitled “Pharaoh, Basileus and Imperator: The Roman Imperial Cult in Egypt”.
The Scholars' Colloquium consists of 20-minutes papers by scholars from around the world, on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to) the topic of the symposium.
Two events which are not part of the symposium/colloquium proper are also scheduled: A lecture on the digital unwrapping of a Graeco-Roman mummy by Nancy Lovell (Emeritus of U. of Alberta), to take place on Thursday the 2nd of November, and another lecture for Monday, Nov 6th:  SSEA TORONTO CHAPTER (LOCAL) LECTURE “Dialogue or coercion: social pressure in Ancient Egypt” by Guillaume Bouchard Labonté (PhDc, UQAM)
The Thursday night lecture is in memory of Sally Katary.
Available information is here: http://symposium.thessea.org/
You can pay via the website, by mail, or at the door.  To sign up online visit  http://symposium.thessea.org/symposium-information/faq/

A review of the third known representation of a three wheeled mobility aid, the first with a practical application.  This paper is to encourage discussion on the British Museum item GR 1996. 7-12.2 It discusses the representation, gender, age of object, physical impairment, walking aids, fashion, hairstyle and general purpose of the model in the context of the evolution of three wheeled transport history. Revised version contains minor typos corrected and some additional information.