EEF news
An Egyptological team led by Hourig Sourouzian has discovered
two 18th dyn. statues of Sekhmet (one made of granite, with
only the feet and base missing; of the other, only the black diorite
bust was recovered), plus a red granite head of a statue of a king
the team believes to be a ruler from the Kushite period. The statues
were found at the temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor.
Press reports:
http://snipurl.com/m330
http://snipurl.com/m38j
http://snipurl.com/m38l
Enlarged photo of one of the Sekhmet statues:
http://snipurl.com/m331
On his website, Dr Zahi Hawass dedicates a page to the recent
discovery of the statue of Tiye:
http://www.guardians.net/hawass/articles/discovering_queen_tiye.htm
Nothing new, except for confirming that the late cartouche is that of queen Henuttawi herself (and not of her husband).
Marsia Sfakianou, "Was the function of the earliest writing in
Egypt utilitarian or ceremonial? Does the surviving evidence
reflect the reality?". In PDF, 2.07 MB (28 pp., richly illustrated).
A new student paper at the EEF Library site:
http://www.egiptomania.com/EEF/EEFLibrary.html
Delwen Samuel, "Archaeology of Ancient Egyptian Beer", in:.
Journal of the American Society for Brewing Chemists 54(1),
pp. 3-12. In PDF (634kB).
http://www.asbcnet.org/journal/abstracts/1996/0103-02a.htm
"An archaeological approach to the study of ancient Egyptian
brewing has focused primarily on the desiccated remains of
cereal-based, starchy beer and brewing by-products. The
microstructure of these residues is outstandingly well preserved
and can be studied using scanning electron microscopy. The
state of the starch has been used to determine the ancient
processes used for brewing. Strong evidence for malting
comes from pitted and channeled starch granules present in
most of the beer residues. Gelatinization indicates that cereals
or cereal products were heated while moist, but the degree
of heating and the level of moisture appear to have varied.
Evidence is presented for different possible cereal processing
methods, and the subsequent mixture of products to create
the final beer. Arguments are presented against the traditional
view that ancient Egyptian beer was made from bread and that
dates were a standard ingredient. "
The article I mentioned in the "Literacy of women" thread
is available online (in PDF):
Stephen Houston, John Baines, Jerrold Cooper, "Last Writing:
Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica"
(2003)
http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/archive/00001037/01/houston_2003.pdf
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