Current Research in Egyptology 2021 : Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium, University of the Aegean, 9-16 May 2021

Current Research in Egyptology 2021 presents papers from the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the international postgraduate conference Current Research in Egyptology, held online by the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) on 9-16 May 2021. Almost 100 participants from institutions all over the world presented their insightful research on a wide range of topics regarding all periods of ancient Egypt. Fifteen Egyptological and Papyrological papers are published here, which investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period. The wide chronological and thematic scope of the book reflects the multifaceted, interdisciplinary and innovative character of modern Egyptology. Electra Apostola completed her PhD in Egyptology at the University of the Aegean. Since 2016 she has worked as a research and teaching fellow at the same University (2016-2021) and as a teaching fellow at the University of Thessaly (2021-2022). She is a member of the Permanent Committee of the Current Research in Egyptology conference. Her research interests and publications focus on cultural interconnections between Egypt, the Near East and the Aegean in the Iron Age, as well as on medicine in ancient Egypt. Christos Kekes studied Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Crete. From the same university he received his M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology. He recently obtained a PhD in Egyptology at the University of the Aegean. His research interests include relations between Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East; the archaeology of bodily communication; and the practice of damnatio memoriae in ancient Egypt. He has participated in several archaeological projects in Greece. Cover 1 About Access Archaeology 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Information 4 Contents 5 Foreword 7 Introduction 11 List of paper presentations 13 List of poster presentations 18 List of keynote lectures 20 Reared in prehistory 21 Mona Akmal M. Ahmed 21 The ‘commander of the ruler’s crew’ 47 Francesco de Gaetano 47 Spectacle of imperial splendour 60 Ziting (Rebecca) Wang 60 Festivals and duties 82 Sue Thorpe 82 Sun, moon, and myth 96 Jayme Reichart 96 Being annihilatedd or being satisfied in the Duat 115 Mariano Bonanno 115 ‘And all large small cattle’ 128 Guilherme Borges Pires 128 Water, protection and destiny 152 Gabriele Mario Conte 152 The transmission of themes and motifs between copy and innovation 170 Valeria Tappeti 170 Unpublished Greek and Demotic papyri from Graeco-Roman Tebtunis 179 Nicola Reggiana and Alessia Bovo 179 The Πλοιαφέσια in the Greek landscape 193 Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino 193 Iconographical and iconological study of the snake-footed Anubis in Alexandria 210 Beatriz Jiménez Meroño and Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo 210 Eggs in Graeco-Roman Egypt: food, medicine, ritual 223 Dimitris Roumpekas 223 The scarab, from amulets to magical gems 234 Dominique Barcat 234 The role of Greek loanwords in Coptic magical texts 257 Krisztina Hevesi 257 Current Research in Egyptology 2021 presents papers fromthe Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the international postgraduateconference Current Research in Egyptology, held online by theDepartment of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean(Rhodes, Greece) on 9-16 May 2021. Almost 100 participants frominstitutions all over the world presented their insightful researchon a wide range of topics regarding all periods of ancient Egypt.Fifteen Egyptological and Papyrological papers are published here,which investigate a great variety of issues, including social andreligious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic,language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, theiconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, rangingchronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period. The widechronological and thematic scope of the book reflects themultifaceted, interdisciplinary and innovative character of modernEgyptology 15 Egyptological and Papyrological papers investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period.