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Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures
 
invites you to 
 
 XVI International Numismatic Congress INC 2022
 
 
11-16 September 2022 Warsaw, Poland
 
For more information, please visit the Congress website: https://inc2022.pl/

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Banganarti Studies 1

 

The present book was published thanks to a grant from the National Science Centre of the Republic of Poland: Archangels and Locusts: Daily Life in Banganarti, a Pilgrimage Centre on the Middle Nile, 6th through 16th Centuries (grant agreement no. 2016/21/B/HS3/03724), with a contribution by the Qatar Sudan Archaeological Project.

The book is available here!

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We are proud to announce the discovery done by one of our Institute colleagues and his team
in Egypt during the last archaeological campaign in the Sun Temple of Niuserre!
 
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The remains of a building, probably one of the four lost Sun Temples of the Fifth Dynasty kings, have been unearthed in Abusir.
The joint Italian-Polish archaeological mission working in the Sun Temple of King Niuserre at Abu Ghurab, north of Abusir, discovered the remains of a mudbrick building laying underneath the temple. The preliminary studies indicate that it might be one of the four lost temples of the Sun dating to the Fifth Dynasty and known from historical sources. Dr Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated that the excavations will be completed at the site to reveal more about this building.
Dr Mustafa Waziri also said that the remains of the discovered building are accessed through a monumental entrance built of limestone, leading to an area used as storehouses, in the north, and to a wide courtyard to the west, where there is a mud paved floor and huge blocks of quartzite, some of which have smoothed faces and are embedded in the floor below the Sun Temple of king Niuserre.
Dr Ayman Ashmawy, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that the remains of the discovered building indicate that it was built of mudbricks and that it was partially destroyed by Niuserre to build his own temple, pointing out that many pottery vessels were discovered at the site, which may have been used in foundation rituals. Among them, particularly important are those discovered inside the Sun Temple of King Niuserre, in the north-eastern corner, below the stone slabs of the foundations of the temple itself.
From his side, Dr Mohamed Youssef, Director of Saqqara Antiquities Inspectorate, said that the foundation deposits were found at the level of the mudbrick wall of the ancient temple, and consisted mostly of beer-jars but also of Meidum bowls and some red slipware pots.
Dr Rosanna Pirelli, head of the mission from the University of Naples L'Orientale, said that several fragments of clay seals bearing royal names were also found, including one with the name of the Fifth Dynasty King Shepseskare, about which we do not have much information, stressing that the new discoveries may indicate his presence and activities at the site. This may change our knowledge of this king's history and the Fifth Dynasty in general.
Dr Massimiliano Nuzzolo, head of the mission from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, confirmed that the mission would complete its work soon, in an attempt to unearth the ancient temple completely and unveil more secrets about this building.
 
For more information please visit Sun Temples Project website: https://www.suntemplesproject.org/

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Dr Małgorzata Glinicka laureate of the SONATINA 6 competition

 

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Małgorzata Glinicka (Department of Modern Cultures of Asia and Africa) has won the SONATINA 6 grant for the project “The Theory of Meaning in the Jaina Philosophy of Language (11th–17th c. CE)”.

A total of 155 proposals were submitted to the competition and 32 were shortlisted for funding.

A list of ongoing projects is available at: https://www.ncn.gov.pl/konkursy/wyniki/2022-07-29-sonatina6.

We would like to congratulate Dr Małgorzata Glinicka and wish her much success!

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poster

on the occasion of the conference

10. Symposium zur ägyptischen Königsideologie
10th Symposium on Egyptian royal ideology
"Rites, rituals and festivals as instruments of stability of the royal power"

Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures
of the Polish Academy of Sciences

is pleased to invite you to the public keynote lecture by

Prof. dr. Julia Budka
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich

entitled

“Festivals, stability and instability of royal power
in the Amarna Period: some aspects
of Akhenaten’s royal ideology reconsidered”


The lecture will be held on Wednesday, June 1st at 3.00 pm CET
live: National Museum in Warsaw, 3, Jerozolimskie Av.
online streaming: https://www.facebook.com/IKSiOPAN

  1. Dr Jade Bageot success in the POLONEZ BIS 1
  2. The conference Polish-French Co-operation in the Domain of Egyptology
  3. Lecture of Maria Carmela Gatto, PhD
  4. IMOC researches participated in Annual Meeting of The American Research Center in Egypt
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