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Child Burials at Saqqara: Ptolemaic Necropolis West of the Step Pyramid

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Radomska M.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2016
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vol. 29
169–202
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The author analyzes the child burials from the Ptolemaic necropolis to the west of the Djeser pyramid in Saqqara. Issues of whether there was a separated child cemetery there in the Ptolemaic period and/or whether the burial practices with regard to children were different from those practiced for adults are discussed. To achieve these goals, the presence and location of possible clusters of child graves at the site as well as type of graves, burial practices and funerary equipment connected with sub-adults interments are examined.
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Die römischen Kleinfunde aus Syene (Assuan)

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Hepa M.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2014
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issue 27
151–159
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The so-called area 13c is located in the town centre of modern Aswan (ancient Syene) in Upper Egypt and was excavated in 2005. During this excavation not only a housing chronology from the late Ptolemaic period up to the late Roman period was documented; among others an ensemble of three brooches, a hinged buckle and a pendant probably from a horse harness were found. In fact, these bronze findings are the first objects of this kind found in Aswan, which can be dated to the Early Roman period. Numerous parallels and similar types of artifacts were found in military camps of the Augustan time in other Roman provinces. We know, for example, that in the military camp in Dangstetten, brooches of Aucissa type, that can be compared to the findings from Syene, were found. What more is, these were probably even made in the same workshop. Other samples of the hinged buckle and the pendant are also known from Dangstetten, but were found in Windisch and Kaiseraugst, too. Although there is only this small amount of early Roman findings at Syene/Aswan, they are deemed to a hint for the early Roman presence in this part of the ancient city of Syene, already mentioned by Strabon.
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Petempamentes, Petensetis, Petensenis – Their Portraits on Elephantine

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Laskowska-Kusztal E., Arnold F.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2014
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issue 27
217–231
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The article is a publication of the decoration fragment coming from an unknown sacral building from Elephantine. The scene preserved in the lower register represents Ptolemy VI Philometor making and offering to Petempamentes, Petensetis and Petensenis. The three gods, known from I.Th.Sy. 303 stele, who have been the subject of scientific discussion for years, appear here all together in one scene – for the first time in the decoration programme of an Egyptian sacral edifice. The iconography of the characters and the accompanying texts suggest a definition of the gods’ personalities as divine warriors and protectors, subject also to a popular cult. The scene considered in the context of the preserved fragments of the upper register seems to imply the association of the building with the royal ideology and possibly the dynastic cult.
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Une grande reine et deesse

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Kiss Z.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2014
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issue 27
185–194
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During the research led by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology at Heracleion a huge statue of black diorite was found on the site of the Temple. Preserved in four parts, the sculpture is nearly complete (2.20m). It represents a woman standing, with arms on her sides down and slightly forward. In her left hand she hold the sign ankh and on the chest of her garment she bears the ‘knot of Isis’. Also the hair, arranged in long, rolled-up curls, are characteristic for the goddess. But the broad flat diadem is clearly a royal one, therefore it is possible to see in this sculpture an image of a ptolemaic queen assimilated with Isis. Certain is that Berenice II, the wife of Ptolemy III, wore on some portraits this kind of ‘isiac’ hairdress. Close to the Heracleion statue are portraits of Cleopatra II, sister-wife of Ptolemy VI, and of her daughter – Cleopatra III. Distinction of the portraits of the mother and daughter is difficult, but considering the long reign of the last one, the Heracleion statue seems more probably an image of Cleopatra III as Isis.
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Un Ptolémée, mais lequel ?

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Kiss Z.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2015
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issue 28
67–73
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On the site of ancient Heracleion, today under water of the Bay of Abukir, the team of the Institut Européen d’Archéologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) found in 2011 the upper part of a masculine statue in black granite, featuring both pharaonic (overall attitude, head-dress nemes) and Hellenistic (fringe of curls) schemes. Such images of the Egyptian sovereign do not appear before Ptolemaic times and this ‘mixed’ royal iconography was clearly addressed to the mixed Graeco-Egyptian population, that has increased in importance only under Ptolemy IV, and after the battle of Raphia in particular. The wide and fleshy face of the Heracleion sculpture is far from the juvenile long face and narrow chin of Ptolemy VI (see the heads in Athens and Alexandria) and suits at the best the image of corpulent Ptolemy VIII Physkon (‘pot-belly’) – as testified in particular by the head, attributed to this king from Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, and another granite sculpture from Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg.
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A Bulb of Narcissus on the Egyptian Mummy from University of Wrocław Collection

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Borysławski K., Niwińska A., Niwiński A., Tomaszewska A., Wasylikowa K., Żelaźniewicz A.
Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
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2018
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vol. XXXI
111-121
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The object of the present study is the ancient bulb of the narcissus found on the mummy, probably of the Ptolemaic period, brought to Wrocław from Italy in the sixteenth century AD. For about four hundred years the mummy was kept by the successive owners of one of pharmacies in Wrocław, and after the World War II became the possession of Wrocław University. Computed tomography made in 2002 revealed an atypical object lying under the left hand of the mummy. Extracted in 2004 it appeared to be the bulb of a flower, and botanical analysis has revealed that it represents the Narcissus tazetta L. species. Although the narcissus was known in Egypt, its identification in the ancient sources has never been attempted. Thanks to the analysis of the bio-medical properties of the narcissus, compared with some descriptions of remedies proposed by the medical papyri Ebers and Hearts, as well as with some religious magical texts an identification of the sennut plant with narcissus is proposed here.
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