Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists Abstracts of Papers

XICE – Abstract of Papers
westliche Museen (Paris, London, Chicago) verbracht wurden; auch diese sind nur
zum Teil publiziert. Aufschlußreich sind zudem Texte, zumal die Treasury und
Fortification Tablets aus Persepolis sowie die Foundation Charts aus Susa. Sie
bezeugen Lieferungen nach Iran, z.B. von Silber und Ebenholz, und die Anstellung
von ägyptischen Handwerkern, die ganz offensichtlich keinen Sklavenstatus hatten
und mit Schafen und Wein entlohnt wurden. Insgesamt hält sich die Zahl ägyptischer
Objekte, Verluste und Unpubliziertes aller Art in Rechnung gestellt, in Grenzen.
Weiterhin wurden ägyptische Spezialisten in Iran regulär angestellt und nicht als
Sklaven oder Kriegsbeute zur Zwangsarbeit verschleppt. Beides weist nicht auf eine
Ausbeutung Ägyptens durch die Achaimeniden hin.
Syene/Aswan - The city at the First Cataract and its archaeology
Wolfgang Müller
The Swiss-Egyptian Joint Mission has been working in the town since 2000. 40 sites
have been investigated both in rescue and research excavations. A new modus of
operations enabled the mission to establish an urban archaeological unit monitoring
any new building activity in town.The development of the area now covered by
modern Aswan from the Old Kingdom to modern times has been investigated in detail
for the first time. The talk will try to give a general overview of the results of the
work of the mission. Special focus will lie on Area 15 in the town centre with a
uninterrupted stratigraphical sequence from Twenty-sixth Dynasty until the Late
Roman period. A part of the well attested Persian garrison of Syene gradually
developed into an urban quarter at the heart of the Graeco-Roman town. Of special
interest are its relations to other parts of the city, like the Temple Of Isis or the Late
Roman city centre detected by the mission in earlier excavations in the immediate
vicinity of Area 15. The reconstruction of the natural topography of Syene and its
surroundings is one of the major research aims of the project. First results of these
efforts have impact on any interpretation of the archaelogical record. In Area 15
especially the vicinity to the Nile and the low building ground have to be taken into
account and result in the assumption that the Area is situated close to the harbour, one
of the crucial functional installations of the town.
Magic in the internet: Investigation by Genre in Trismegistos
Franzisca Naether
Since late 2006, the interdisciplinary research platform “Trismegistos” (University of
Cologne/ K. U. Leuven) encompassing all texts from Egypt dating between the early
25th dynasty and the disappearance of Coptic as a legal language in the 2 nd
millennium AD had been established in the internet freely accessible at
www.trismegistos.org. The aim of this paper is to present the newest spin-off, TM-
Magic, a database solely devoted to collect metadata of religious, ritual, magical and
divinatory texts (www.trismegistos.org/magic) —including i.e. liturgies, prayers,
oracles or amulets. Furthermore, some genres will be evaluated more precisely
concerning their language, material, date, provenance and possible reuse.
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