Gianluca Miniaci

Presents theoretical and comparative approaches to the consideration of evidence for deliberate fragmentation and damaging of figurines across a range of societies and periods.

Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines

Breaking Images

Massimo Bergamasco

Maria C. Betrò

Paolo Del Vesco

The Tomb of Huy (TT 14) : Preliminary Results

Seven Seasons at Dra Abu El-Naga

Stephen Quirke

Juan Carlos Moreno Garcìa

Andréas Stauder

This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the "imaginative" figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from "workers" to "artisans" and, most recently, to "artists." In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyze the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BC); to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images, and artifacts; and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production.

Voices, Images, and Objects of Material Producers 2000-1550 BC

The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt

In 1895–96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the ‘Ramesseum’, the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single spot together with a number of distinctive objects, such as carved ivory tusks and miniature figurines in various materials dated around XVIII century BC. Gianluca Miniaci attempts to thoroughly reconstruct the archaeological context of the tomb: the exact find spot (forgotten afterwards its discovery), its architecture, the identity of its owner(s) and recipient(s) of the assemblage of artifacts. A detailed analysis of the single artifacts – provided for the first with full color photographic records and drawings – and their network of relations gives new life to the Ramesseum assemblage after more than a century from its discovery.

The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context

Gianluca Miniaci

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