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REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW
The 22nd Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference in Montpellier hosted around 250 attendees in person and online from different institutions around the world, and covered a great variety of topics with a wide chronological and thematic range.
A paper by Marion Devigne focuses on the unusual topic of linen funerary amulets, which were were prominent during the Late and Ptolemaic Periods. The amulets have sometimes been confused with other types of inscribed wrappings, but in effect should be classified as a separate category of funerary textiles.
Two papers provide useful information about reconstructions of lost archaeological sites: the Temple of Hathor at Philae, and the Roman phase of the city of Arsinoë. Jessica Jancziak looks at the impact of early research by Champollion, Lepsius, and Borchardt relating to Egyptian stone columns. Thomas Lebée describes his research into the letters of Auguste Mariette, who founded the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1858. Lebée has set up an ongoing free digital edition of these letters using the cloud-based platform GitHub (https://thlebee.github.io/CoEg/).
Nicola Reggiani considers Egyptian remedies listed in the Greek medical texts, and comments on how Egyptian medicine was considered important in the ancient world due to the antiquity, and considered superior efficacy, of its medical knowledge and practice.
Two of the papers refer to various aspects of coffin design and manufacture, with Jaume Vilaró Fabregat describing the methodology involved in creating an electronic database of the various features of yellow coffins. A computer-aided comparative analysis allows for faster, more comprehensive, and more precise isolation of relevant similarities and differences between the coffins, which can assist in suggesting provenances where these are unknown. A paper by Kea Johnston examines the increasing use of text as a decorative element on the anthropoid coffins of the Egyptian elite in the Nubian and Saite periods.
CRE has provided a platform for postgraduates, early career Egyptologists, and independent scholars for more than 20 years. This book is the latest volume to continue that commitment.
CURRENT RESEARCH IN EGYPTOLOGY 2022: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITÉ PAUL-VALÉRY MONTPELLIER 3, 26-30 SEPTEMBER 2022
ed. A Bouhafs et al.
ARCHAEOPRESS, 2023
ISBN 978-1-80327-583-3
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