7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference

Monday, July 3 9.30 Registration 10.30 – 11.15 Authorities Opening Speech Gianluca Vago (Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Milano)

Alfonso D’Agostino (Direttore del Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Ahmed Mohamed Osman Shaheen (Console Generale della Repubblica Araba d’Egitto a Milano)

Gihane Zaki (Direttore dell’Accademia d’Egitto a Roma)

Paolo Sabbatini (Direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura al Cairo)

Giuseppina Capriotti (Manager del Centro Archeologico dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura al Cairo)

Patrizia Piacentini (Cattedra di Egittologia, Università degli Studi di Milano) 11.15 Sergio Pernigotti (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) Sergio Donadoni e la più antica storia dell’Egitto 11.35 Dina Faltings (Universität Heidelberg) An additional portrait of Snefru? 11.55 Olena Romanova (A. Yu. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) A new fragment of an autobiographical inscription from Giza

14.30 Amr Omar (The American University in Cairo) The Archive of Abu Bakr and writing the missing chapter of Giza necropolis history 14.50 Christian Orsenigo (Università degli Studi di Milano) Saqqara Tomb 920 and other Old Kingdom monuments in the James E. Quibell Archive at the Università degli Studi di Milano 15.10 Chloé Girardi (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, Labex ARCHIMEDE) Mummification in the Old Kingdom: digging into archaeological reports and archives 15.30 Martin Odler – Jiří Kmošek – Marek Fikrle – Vojtěch Erban – Yulia V. Kochergina – Katharina Uhlir – Martina Griesser – Regina Hölzl – Irene Engelhardt (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague – The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague – Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Czech Geological Survey – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien) Latest research into Old Kingdom copper alloy artefacts Coffee Break 16.10 Zeinab Hashesh (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities) Reexamination of the Iww/Hr-ib coffin, The Egyptian Museum CGC 28003: study re-search case 16.30 Ayano Yamada – Eissa Zidan – Mamdouh Taha – Sakuji Yoshimura (Waseda University – Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities – Higashi Nippon International University) Reassembling the cabin of Khufu’s second boat in 2013-2016: a preliminary analysis of the wooden pieces and carpenters’ marks 16.50 Yukinory Kawae – Yasumuro Yoshihiro – Fumito Chiba– Ichiroh Kanaya (Nagoya University – Kansai University – LANG CO. LTD. – University of Nagasaki) The construction methods of the top of the Great Pyramid at Giza 17.10 – 17.30 Discussion 19:30 – 21.00 ‘Aperitivo’ for EDAL, Egyptian and Egyptological Documents Archives & Libraries, at Pontremoli Libreria Antiquaria, via Cesare Balbo 4, Milano (by invitation only)

7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference

Tuesday, July 4 9.30 Maksim Lebedev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) Old Kingdom burial practices at Giza: new discoveries from the eastern edge of the necropolis 9.50 Katarina Arias Kytnarová (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Embalmers’ deposits of the Old Kingdom – New ceramic evidence from Abusir 10.10 Jaromír Krejčí (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Nakhtsare’s cemetery in Abusir Centre Coffee break 10.50 Massimiliano Nuzzolo (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Reading Sun Cult and architecture in Fifth-Dynasty Egypt. Towards an historical Geographical Information System of the site of Abusir/Abu Ghurab 11.10 Nathalie Kayser-Lienhard (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris) Auguste Rodin and the Old Kingdom: the catalogue of the Egyptian Collection 11.30 – 12.20 Main Lecture Nathalie Beaux-Grimal (Chercheur associé, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire ; Collège de France, Paris) Expressing emotions. A parallel between human and animal representations 12.20 – 13.00 Discussion

14.30 Gabriele Pieke – Hana Vymazalová (Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, Mannheim – Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Naoi with high relief figures as part of tomb design in Abusir-South 14.50 Eloïse Noc (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, Labex ARCHIMEDE) Presentation of SIGSaqqara Project 15.10 Mohamed Megahed – Vladimír Brůna (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Djedkare’s Pyramid in 3D: new methods of documentation of the king’s burial apartments 15.30 Tara Prakash (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) The relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional depictions of foreigners in the Late Old Kingdom Pyramid complex Coffee break 16.10 Rémi Legros (Mission archéologique franco-suisse de Saqqâra, Laboratoire HiSoMA) Stèles et fausses-portes de la nécropole de Pépy Ier 16.30 Vassil Dobrev (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Le Caire) The orientation of the hieroglyphic texts on the lintel of Intef’s tomb façade at the ne-cropolis of Tabbet el-Guesh (Sixth Dynasty) 16.50 Riccardo Manzini (International Association of Egyptologists) Reconstruction of the original project of the Bent Pyramid in Dahshur 17.10 Aurore Motte (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Liège) For your ka! How to give something as a present to the tomb owner? 17.30 – 18.00 Discussion 19.30 – 21.30 Welcome cocktail at the Università degli Studi di Milano (by invitation only)

7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference

Wednesday, July 5 9.30 Antje Kohse (Freie Universität Berlin) Non-normative burials of the Old Kingdom 9.50 Bart Vanthuyne – Michael Dee – Tosha Dupras – Catherine McGinn-Roberts – Ashley Cooke - Gina Criscenzo-Laycock (Dayr al-Barshā Project, KU Leuven – Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art , University of Oxford – Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando – University of Liverpool – World Museum, National Museum Liverpool – Garstang Museum, University of Liverpool) Early Old Kingdom tombs in Nuwayrat and Zawyet Sultan

10.10 Richard Bussmann (Universität zu Köln) Zawyet Sultan in the Old Kingdom: archaeology of a provincial town in Middle Egypt Coffee break 10.50 Naguib Kanawati (Macquarie University, Sydney) The Royal Governors of El-Qusiya in the Old and Middle Kingdoms 11.10 Gregory Marouard – Nadine Moeller (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) Two sister-sites at the beginning of the Old Kingdom: recent results on the settlement excavations at Tell Edfu and Dendara 11.30 – 12.20 Main Lecture Pierre Tallet (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris) The newly discovered Papyri from the Wadi el-Jarf Harbour (Suez Gulf) 12.20 – 13.00 Discussion

14.30 Eva Montes-Moya – Martina Bardoňová – Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano (Universidad de Jaén – Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) An intact Late Sixth Dynasty tomb from Qubbet el-Hawa 14.50 Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano (Universidad de Jaén) Some notes on Harkhuf’s career 15.10 Vicente Barba Colmenero - Martina Bardoňová (Universidad de Jaén – Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) ‘I never deprived any man of his belongings’: testimony of some Late Old Kingdom – First Intermediate Period intrusive burials at Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis 15.30 – 16.00 Discussion 17.45 Departure for the social dinner (by invitation only)

7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference

Thursday, July 6 9.30 Julia Hamilton (University of Oxford) Old Kingdom personal names in secondary inscriptions in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery, Saqqara 9.50 Simon Thuault (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes) Animal categorization during Old Kingdom: lexicography, hieroglyphs and iconography 10.10 Ilaria Incordino (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’) Aromatic products in Old Kingdom Egypt: lexicographic and iconographic study Coffee break 10.50 Racheli Shalomi-Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Isis, Nephtys and the Osirian revolution 11.10 Francesca Iannarilli (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) Manipulating image, processing script: construction and deconstruction of the human figure in the Pyramid Texts 11.30 – 12.20 Main Lecture Miroslav Barta (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Maat as goddess, a concept and a symbol in the Old Kingdom religion and politics 12.20 – 13.00 Discussion

14.30 Abd Allah Hussein Maissara (Cairo University) ‘By the hand of Shu’: PT. Utterance 261, a new interpretation 14.50 Elena Panaite (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes) The edge-spaces in the Pyramid Texts. An overview 15.10 Angelo Colonna (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’) The ‘Pelikanszene’ in the room of seasons: an early case of animal worship (?) 15.30 Dana Bělohoubková – Jiří Janák – Marie Peterková Hlouchová (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) Creative power and divine authority in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts 15.50 Patrizia Piacentini (Università degli Studi di Milano) The Old Kingdom and beyond: researches in the Egyptological Archives of the Università degli Studi di Milano 16.10 ‘Tea by the Library’ and visit to the Egyptological Archives of the Università degli Studi di Milano (by invitation only)

7th Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference

Friday, July 7th

9.30 Ann Macy Roth (New York University) A possible new function for ‘Daily Life Scenes’ in Old Kingdom tomb chapels 09.50 Marleen De Meyer – José M. Serrano (KU Leuven – Universidad de Sevilla) Feet of cattle in funerary rituals: a diachronic view combining archaeology and Iconography 10.10 Miral Lashien (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities) The donkey in Egyptian art of the Old and Middle Kingdoms Coffee break 10.50 Emad Ahmed Elsayyad (Alexandria University, Egypt) The significance of the calf’s head in the Old Kingdom offering scenes 11.10 Katarzyna Kapiec (Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences) The Old Kingdom’s influences in the Southern Room of Amun in the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari 11.30 Andrés Diego Espinel (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas – CSIC, Madrid) Unusual cowherds: iconographic development, diffusion and meanings of cripples, dwarves, boys and starving foreigners as drovers from the Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom 12.10 – 13.00 Discussion

14.30 Věra Nováková (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague) A household of an Egyptian dignitary – the case of Ptahshepses 14.50 Kim McCorquodale (Macquarie University, Sydney) Polygamy in the Old Kingdom 15.10 Émilie Martinet (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes, Labex ARCHIMEDE) Social differentiation and degree of integration in the court society: toward a sociology of the provincial élites in the Old Kingdom Coffee break 15.50 Veronika Dulíková – Radek Mařík – Miroslav Bárta – Matej Cibuľa (Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical Uni-versity in Prague – Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague) HMM model of the development of the Old Kingdom administration 16.10 Massimiliano Franci (CAMNES Firenze) Semiotics of the representations: between the signs of royal communications in the Pharaonic tradition of the Old Kingdom 16.30 John Burn (Macquarie University, Sydney) The river and drought: a changing riverine ecology at the end of the Old Kingdom? 16.50 Closing discussion