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Thebes in the First Millennium BC - South Asasif Conservation Project Conference
Day 1: Monday 01 October
08:00 Registration opens (Mummification Museum)
09:00 Welcome address by Mansour Boraik
09:10 Elena Pischikova – The South Asasif Conservation Project.
Julia Budka – Kushite pottery from the Tomb of Karakhamun: Towards a reconstruction of the use of pottery in 25th Dynasty temple tombs.
Discussion
10:45 Break
11:15 Kenneth Griffin – The Book of the Dead from the Second Pillared Hall of the Tomb of Karakhamun
Miguel Molinero Polo – The Hall of the Two Maats. BD 125 in Karakhamun’s funerary chamber.
John Taylor – Identifying Signs of Workshop Production in Theban Funerary Assemblages in the Later Third Intermediate Period.
Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Dieter Eigner – Some Remarks on the Architecture of TT 223.
Robert Morkot – All in the Detail: Travel style and archaism in Late Libyan-Kushite Egypt.
Ramadan Ahmed Ail, Fathy Yassen Abd El Kerim and MSA Conservation team – Conservation at the South Asasif Necropolis.
Discussion
15:30 Break
16:00 Erhart Graefe – The funerary caches (tombs) of the Third Intermediate Period in Thebes.
David Aston – Royal Tombs at Thebes in the First Millennium BC.
Zbigniew Szafranski - Tombs of the Third Intermediate Period Royal Members in the Deir el-Bahari Necropolis.
17:30 End of day summing up
18:00 Close
Day 2: Tuesday 02 October
09:00 Welcome Address by Mohamed Abd el-Aziz
Aidan Dodson – The Coming of the Kushites: 25th Dynasty Origins and the 23rd/25th Dynasty transition in Thebes.
Mohamed El Bialy – Title to follow.
10:00 Silvia Einaudi – Between South and North Assasif: the tomb of Harwa (TT 37) as a “transitional monument”.
Claude Traunecker – Le “palais funéraire” de Padiamenopé, tombe, lieu de pélérinages et bilbiothèque. Etat des recherches.
Isabelle Régen – The Amduat and the Book of the Gates in the tomb of Padiamenope (TT 33).
Discussion
11:30 – Break
12:00 Christian Greco – The forgotten tomb of Ramose at Sheik ‘Abd el-Qurna: TT 132.
Gabor Schreiber – Kushite and Saite Period Burials on el-Khokha.
Filip Coppens – The so-called ‘Lichthof’ once more. On the transmission of concepts between Tomb and Temple.
Discussion
13:30 Lunch.
14:30 Claus Jurman – A north-south divide? – first steps towards a comparison of Memphite and Theban cultural repertoires during the Kushite and early Saite periods.
Aleksandra Hallmann – Some observations about the representation of the neck-sash in 26th Dynasty Thebes.
Pål Steiner – Representations of funeral rituals in Late Period tombs at Asasif.
Discussion
16:00 Break
16:30 Simone Musso & Simone Petacchi – The inner coffin of Tameramon, a unique masterpiece of Kushite iconography from Thebes. A work in progress.
Alessia Amenta – Vatican Coffin Project.
Cynthia Sheikholeslami – Sokar-Osiris and the Goddesses: Some 25th-26th Dynasty Coffins from the Theban Necropolis.
18:00 Tony Leahy – Another “Kushite” at Abydos?
1830 – Close
Day 3: Wednesday 03 October (West Bank Visit)
Timetable of events to follow
Day 4: Thursday 04 October (Karnak)
08:00 – Karnak visit
12:00 – Lunch (Mummification Museum)
13:00 – Welcome Address by Ibrahim Soliman
13:10 Nadia Licitra, Christophe Thiers, Pierre Zignani – A major development project of the Northern area of the Amun-Ra precinct at Karnak during the reign of Shabaka.
Laurent Coulon – The building activity of the God’s Wives of Amun at Karnak during the XXVIth dynasty. New data from recent excavations and unexploited archives.
Discussion
1430 – Break
15:00 Aurélia Masson – Offering Magazines on the Southern Bank of the Sacred Lake in Karnak: A possible reconstruction of the Architectural Phases of the 25th and 26th Dynasty.
Stéphanie Boulet with an introduction by Catherine Defernez – Ceramic Production in the Theban Area from the 25th and 26th Dynasties: about new discoveries in Karnak.
Mansour Boraik – Title to follow
Discussion
16:30 – Break
17:00 Elizabeth Frood – The development of graffiti practices in Karnak in the early first millennium B.C.
the case-study of the temple of Ptah.
Campbell Price – “Given as a gift of the king”? A statue of Petamenope (JE 37389) and the assertion of royal favour in the First Millennium BC.
Discussion
18:00 Closing remarks for the conference
