Lectures
The Djehuty Project in Egypt: a funerary garden in Dra Abu el-Naga – Professor José Manuel Galán.
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On Tuesday, October 15th, 2019, at 18:00, the Museo Egizio in collaboration with ACME (Associazione Amici e collaboratori del Museo Egizio) will host the lecture “The Djehuty Project in Egypt: a funerary garden in Dra Abu el-Naga” held by Professor José Manuel Galán.
A Spanish archaeological mission, coordinated from the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, has been working in Dra Abu el-Naga, at the northern end of the Theban necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, since January 2002. The mission started focussing in and around the rock-cut tomb-chapels of Djehuty and Hery (TT 11–12), two high officials who served under Hatshepsut and Queen Mother Ahhotep respectively, ca. 1520–1460 BCE. The area was previously occupied by funerary shafts and mud-brick offering chapels that belonged to members of the royal family and the Theban elite during the Seventeenth Dynasty, between 1600 and 1520 BCE. In turn, these had to find a free space among Eleventh and early Twelfth Dynasty large rock-cut tombs built four hundred years before.
Two of them share an open courtyard, and in front of one of the entrances a small/model funerary garden was brought to light. The structure (3.0 × 2.2 m) was made of silt and the interior is mostly divided into a grid. The analysis of the 4,000 years old seeds and plant remains found inside each square may contribute to our knowledge about the cultivation of plants for funerary/ritual purposes.
José Manuel Galán is Research Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern and Mediterranean Languages and Cultures at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Madrid). He received his PhD in Egyptology from John Hopkins University (Baltimore), his doctoral thesis was published in 1995 within the German series of monographs of Egyptology Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge, with the title "Victory and Border: Terminology related to Egyptian Imperialism in the XVIIIth Dynasty".
Professor Galán is the director of the Djehuty Project. He has published several monographs: En busca de Djehuty (Madrid 2006); Four Journeys in Ancient Egyptian Literature (Göttingen 2005); El imperio egipcio (Barcelona 2002). He is also the author of fifty research articles published in international journals in the field, such as: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (London), Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago), Chronique d'Égypte (Brussels), Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache (Leipzig-Berlin), Studien zür altägyptischen Kultur (Hamburg), etc.
To learn more about the Djehuty Project click here.
The conference will be introduced by Christian Greco and will be held in English.
The conference will also be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page.
Free admission to the conference room subject to availability.
A Spanish archaeological mission, coordinated from the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, has been working in Dra Abu el-Naga, at the northern end of the Theban necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, since January 2002. The mission started focussing in and around the rock-cut tomb-chapels of Djehuty and Hery (TT 11–12), two high officials who served under Hatshepsut and Queen Mother Ahhotep respectively, ca. 1520–1460 BCE. The area was previously occupied by funerary shafts and mud-brick offering chapels that belonged to members of the royal family and the Theban elite during the Seventeenth Dynasty, between 1600 and 1520 BCE. In turn, these had to find a free space among Eleventh and early Twelfth Dynasty large rock-cut tombs built four hundred years before.
Two of them share an open courtyard, and in front of one of the entrances a small/model funerary garden was brought to light. The structure (3.0 × 2.2 m) was made of silt and the interior is mostly divided into a grid. The analysis of the 4,000 years old seeds and plant remains found inside each square may contribute to our knowledge about the cultivation of plants for funerary/ritual purposes.
José Manuel Galán is Research Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern and Mediterranean Languages and Cultures at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Madrid). He received his PhD in Egyptology from John Hopkins University (Baltimore), his doctoral thesis was published in 1995 within the German series of monographs of Egyptology Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge, with the title "Victory and Border: Terminology related to Egyptian Imperialism in the XVIIIth Dynasty".
Professor Galán is the director of the Djehuty Project. He has published several monographs: En busca de Djehuty (Madrid 2006); Four Journeys in Ancient Egyptian Literature (Göttingen 2005); El imperio egipcio (Barcelona 2002). He is also the author of fifty research articles published in international journals in the field, such as: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (London), Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago), Chronique d'Égypte (Brussels), Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache (Leipzig-Berlin), Studien zür altägyptischen Kultur (Hamburg), etc.
To learn more about the Djehuty Project click here.
The conference will be introduced by Christian Greco and will be held in English.
The conference will also be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page.
Free admission to the conference room subject to availability.
Conference room
Free admission to the conference room subject to availability
STREAMING
on the Museum's Facebook page
info@museitorino.it
011 44 06 903
Dal lunedì al sabato dalle ore 9:00 alle 18:30
