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ABSTRACT: This lecture, which forms part-1 of two parts, includes a discussion and illustration of the following topics: (1) How the Ancient Egyptians conceived of the tomb and its component parts; (2) How a typical middle-upper class... more
Offering tables have been neglected in the study of ancient Egyptian funerary ritual and have not been adequately handled as cultic/ritual artefacts placed within a mortuary landscape. This paper will apply theoretical approaches... more
ABSTRACT: This lecture covers the First Intermediate Period (FIP), spanning Dynasties (7)/8 through early/mid-11 (ca. 2,200-2,040 BCE), but includes periodic discussion regarding the late Old Kingdom leading up to this period and the... more
Ouvrage disponible en libre accès sur la page de l'éditeur : https://books.openedition.org/momeditions/193 En Égypte ancienne, la mort semble être une préoccupation constante. Pour affronter cette étape tant redoutée, le dogme prévoit... more
ABSTRACT: This lecture aims at providing an overview of mortuary practices, customs, and beliefs during the Middle Kingdom, with a main focus on middle class to especially upper class tombs. The lecture begins by providing a brief... more
The offering table under consideration is now in a private collection, but some criteria can assign its origin to Saqqara during the end of the FIP. Some palaeographical peculiarities seem to indicate that it was made by at least two... more
New uncovered analyses on the mortuary practices focusing on the animal remains from Bronze Age Sidon.
THE OLD KINGDOM EGYPTIAN OFFERING-STONES FROM THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM ◉ Five offering-stones of different types and one fragment of an ointment-slab are presented in the paper. All of them belonged to insignificant officials of the second... more
Document de travail, février 2017 Ce document rassemble les dix-neuf tables d'offrandes pour lesquelles une difficulté de lecture persiste, mais pourrait être surmontée. Avant de soumettre l'intégraltié du corpus (900 objets) à un éditeur... more
The discovery of approximatively seven hundred offering tables within the royal necropolis of Pepy I brought to light the necessity to implement a new, more specific method for dating. A seriation model for measuring the chronological... more
The production of offering tables under the 12 th dynasty could have been organized in a number of ways. An offering table workshop from the reign of Senusret III can be seen as a case of centralised production of offering tables for... more
Saqqara is one of the most important heritage sites in Egypt and the world. Many foreign missions have been operating there for a long time. The French mission is one of the oldest missions working in Saqqara. In 2014, under the... more
Présentation de différents cas d'investissement de l'espace sacré par des particuliers. A l'occasion de ce poster sont présentés quelques résultats de la campagne 2014 de la MafS
The offering table CGC 57019 has been tentatively dated to the Old Kingdom by the author of the Catalogue Général. The "rediscovery" of its origin, thanks to the archaeological context and the associated monuments, allows to suggest a... more
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The concept of contagious magic is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed on through contact or physical proximity. The physical form, material and placement of a sacred object, as well as... more
An homage to long serving studio tables, originally built for the architecture design studios in the faculty of architecture, at the University of Manitoba, this essay reflects on the primary site of making and decisive imagination which... more
The paper deals with iconographic criteria that can be used to refine the dates of non-royal stone offering tables within the reign of Dynasty 12. Based on a reference group of 181 offering tables dated through epigraphic criteria and... more
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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate early contexts for the rites conforming the offering Pyramid Texts of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties. Although the original form of the recitations in the mortuary cult was oral, a process of... more