London Centre for the Ancient Near East seminar series on Unusual Aspects of Animals, convened by Margaret Serpico (UCL) with talks on animals in ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East.
Sign up details for online participation and abstracts can be found here.
Mondays at 6.15pm
UCL Institute of Archaeology. Room: UCL Roberts Building, G8, Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre.
11 November 2024
Zoom Only – Dr Elizabeth Bettles, Visiting Research Fellow, NINO, Leiden University
The giraffe and the hare: hieroglyphs in Deir el-Medina tombs as indicators of a painter’s handwriting
Hieroglyphic signs of the giraffe (Gardiner E27) and the hare (Gardiner E34) within texts painted in Ramesside tombs in Deir el-Medina are among signs which help identify the distinctive handwriting style of individual painters who lived in the workmen’s village at this time. As a result, they offer information about the different funerary contexts where a painter could work and the nature of his involvement in the thriving funerary commerce. Furthermore, they indicate the extent to which the components of painted signs can vary from the images published in Egyptologically-accepted sign-lists