Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists Abstracts of Papers

XICE – Abstract of Papers
Nous analyserons un à un les symptômes qu’ils provoquent pour arriver à une réponse
possible.
[1] H. LÜRING, Die über die medicinischen Kenntnisse der alten Ägypter berichtenden
Papyri verglichen mit den medicinischen Schriften griechischer und römischer
Autoren, Leipzig, inv. 8, 1888, thèse de l’Université de Strasbourgh, inédite, tiré de V.
LORET, ‘Pour transformer un vieillard en jeune homme (P Smith, XXI, 9-XX, 10)’,
MIFAO 66, Mélanges Maspero I, Orient Ancien, 1939, 853-877, 872, n 1 .
[2] La longue liste que mentionne ces auteurs médicaux et qui démontre une grande
connaissance de la littérature médicale jusqu’au VIlè siècle, fut ajoutée dans un
manuscrit du XIe siècle de l’oeuvre de Celse (Laur. 73, 1, fol 142). Paul d’Égine fait
référence à quelques uns. Voir M. WELLMANN, « Zur Geschichte der Medicin im
Alterthum », Hermes 35, 1900, p. 349-384, p. 366-67.
[3] L. KEIMER, ‘Histoire des serpents dans l’Égypte ancienne et moderne’, Le Caire,
Imprimerie de l’IFAO, 1947, p. 46.
The King’s sister Ahmes: the missing titles of Hatshepsut’s mother
Ann Macy Roth
On the monuments of Hatshepsut, her mother Queen Ahmes bears the titles “king’s
sister”, “king’s great wife”, and “king’s mother”, but she is never called “king’s
daughter”, despite the fact that if she were a sister of Amenhotep I or Ahmose, she
would most likely also be the daughter of a king. The absence of this title has been
interpreted in various ways. It has been suggested that she simply dropped the title,
preferring to emphasize her connection to a more recent king. Some take the “sister”
in the “king’s sister” title to mean “wife”, as it does in love poems and non-royal
inscriptions. Others take the title more literally, arguing that Thutmose I married his
own non-royal sister at his accession, in imitation of the brother-sister marriage
favored by the previous royal family.
In an essay for the catalogue of the 2005-2006 exhibition, Hatshepsut: From
Queen to Pharaoh (San Francisco, New York, and Fort Worth), I proposed that Queen
Ahmes’s lack of the “king’s daughter” title was the result of a policy whereby “king’s
daughters” lost that title when they married anyone who was not a king. This paper
will argue that suggestion more fully and discuss some of its implications. If Ahmes
was the daughter of Queen Ahmes-Nefertari, as seems likely by this argument, it is
perhaps surprising that she is not attested with the title “god’s wife”, since she would
be in the direct female line by which that title seems to descend. There is, in fact,
some evidence that she held it.
Deir el-Medina community in the light of rock graffiti
Slawomir Rzepka
The community of workmen from Deir el-Medina has provided us with a richness of
textual sources (ostraca, papyri, tomb inscriptions etc.) incomparable with any other
ancient Egyptian settlement. The workmen have left their traces not only in the village
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