All times CET

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14 September - Individuals

 

Chaired by Zsuzsanna Végh, University of Edinburgh

 

14:00 – 14:15 h. Presentation

14:15 – 14:30 h. Julia Hamilton, Macquarie University, Sydney

Secondary epigraphy and interaction with transfigured dead: The case of Nikauizezi, Saqqara

14:30 – 14:45 h. Veronika Dulíková & Marie Hlouchová Peterková, Charles University, Prague

The decorated coffin of the king’s ornament Setib buried at Abusir

14:45 – 15:00 h. Angela McDonald, University of Glasgow

Putting intentions in their place: materialising meaning through spatial dynamics in Appeals to the Dead

(In absentia). Jean-Pierre Pätznick, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris

From Khenti-Mentiu to Khenti-Imentiu: Mirror of the evolution of the royal funerary sphere from the Early Dynastic to the Osirian revolution in the Old Kingdom

15:00 – 15:15 h. César Guerra Méndez & Carlos Gracia Zamacona, Universidad de Alcalá

Osiris, as written in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts

15:15 – 15:30 h. Break

15:30 – 17:00 h. Discussion

 

15 September - Groups

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Chaired by Rune Nyord, Emory University, Atlanta

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14:00 – 14:05 h. Presentation

14:05 – 14:20 h. Seria Yamazaki, Waseda University

Repeating the ritual under the ground: Performance of the royal object ritual in the Middle Kingdom

14:20 – 14:35 h. Juan Carlos Moreno García, CNRS, Paris

dmjw, n(j)wtj “citizen” in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts in the context of the social and political changes that occurred in Egypt at the turn of the 3rd millennium BC

14:35 – 14:50 h. Christelle Alvarez, Brown University

New spells, new compilations, and the concept of variability in sequences of Pyramid and Coffin Texts

14:50 – 15:05 h. Anne Landborg, Independent scholar

Becoming Wind? Considerations on transformation and identification in marginal Coffin Text spells

15:05 – 15:15 h. Yannick A. Wiechmann, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

The many ways of escaping from the fishing net: Regarding variability and prehistory of a spell group

(In absentia). Antonio J. Morales, Universidad de Alcalá

TBD

15:30 – 15:45 h. Break

15:30 – 17:00 h. Discussion

 

16 September - Tracers

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Chaired by Andréas Stauder, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

 

14:00 – 14:05 h. Presentation

14:05 – 14:20 h. Jorke Grotenhuis, University of California, Berkeley / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Variation in the graphical form of the first-person stative ending in the Coffin Texts

14:20 – 14:35 h. Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer, Universidad de Alcalá

(Re)connecting artefacts and thinking in the afterlife: the case of funerary wooden models

14:35 – 14:50 h. M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Harvard University

Variation as a Social Device: “Middle Egyptianisms” in Old Kingdom Letters

14:50 – 15:05 h. Dina Serova, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Problematizing linguistic variation in the Coffin Texts: A case study on spell CT 335

15:05 – 15:15 h. Elisabeth Kruck, Universität Wien

Occurrences of grave goods and their representations on coffins: A concept of substitution?

(In absentia). James P. Allen, Brown University, Providence

Scribal factors in the transmission of the Pyramid Texts

15:30 – 15:45 h. Break

15:30 – 17:00 h. Discussion & announcement of the MORTEXVAR database.