Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology

Preliminary Program of the Conference

Prague, May 31 – June 4, 2004

 

(subject to modifications!)

 

 

Monday, May 31

1.00 – 1.30 pm Opening of the Conference by Z. Hawass, M. Verner and L. Bareš

 

Session 1, chair Do. Arnold

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Hawass, Z.

            Two unique Old Kingdom tombs found;

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Mathieson, I., Dittmer, J., Leahy, A., Reader, C.,

Are large excavations really necessary? (The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project);

3.00 – 3.30 pm

Allen, J. P.,

The Non-royal Afterlife in the Old Kingdom;

 

3.30 – 4.00 Coffee break

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm

Altenmüller, H.,

The transmission of archaic prototypes in the tomb decoration of the Old Kingdom;

4.30 – 5.00 pm

Alexanian, N.,

Tomb and social status. The textual evidence;

 

End of Session

 

 

Tuesday, June 1

Session 2, chair Z. Hawass

9.00 – 9.30 am

Silverman, D.,

The Epithet z3 R’ in the Old through the Middle Kingdom;

9.30 – 10.00 am

Verner, M.,

            The columns of Abusir;

10.00 – 10.30 am

el-Awady, T.,

 Scenes of the return of Sahure’s expedition from Punt;

 

10.30 – 11.00 am Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

Goedicke, H.

            Giza as a construction site

11.30 – 12.00 am

Krejčí, J., Magdolen, D.,

Research into the Fifth Dynasty sun temples – past, present and future;

 

12.00 am – 1.30 pm Lunch Break

 

Section 3, chair H. Goedicke

1.30 – 2.00 pm

Arnold, Do.,

Reinstalling the Tombs of Raemkai and Perneb in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York;

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Bárta, M.,

The newly emerging Sixth Dynasty history of Abusir and Saqqara in context. The tomb

 complex of Qar and his sons;

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Dobrev, V.,

A New Old Kingdom Cemetery at South Saqqara;

 

3.00 – 3.30 pm Coffee Break

 

3.30 – 4.00 pm

Ziegler, Chr.,

Derniers nouvelles de Saqqara;

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm

Love, S.,

Stones, ancestors, and pyramids: Investigating the pre-pyramid landscape of Memphis;

 

4.30 – 5.00 pm

Seidlmayer, S. J.,

Observations on the Chronological Distribution of Royal Names in Private Names and Official Titles during the Old Kingdom;

 

End of Session

 

7.00 – 9.00 pm Reception in the official facilities of the Charles University

 

 

Wednesday, June 2

Session 4, chair H. Altenmüller

9.00 – 9.30 am

Jánosi, P.,

Old Kingdom Tombs and Dating – Problems and Priorities: The Cemetery en

 Echeleon;

9.30 – 10.00 am

Vachala, B.,

Fragments of reliefs from the Mastaba of Ptahshepses at Abusir;

10.00 – 10.30 am

Manuelian, P.,

Giza Mastabas volume 8: Reisner’s Nucleus Cemetery 2100;

 

10.30 – 11.00 am Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

Bolshakov, A.,

A copy of a tomb: Ni-maat-ra G 2097 and Ka-em-ankh G 4561;

11.30 – 12.00 am

Flentye, L.,

The Development of the eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza during the Fourth

Dynasty: The relationship between Architecture and Tomb Decoration;

 

12.00 – 12.30 am

Munch, H.,

Interaction, groups, and women in the Old Kingdom elite: a pictorial perspective

 

12.30 am – 1.00 pm

Schulz, R.,

            Images of  dogs in Old Kingdom art;

 

1.00 pm End of Session

 

Afternoon: Visit to the Prague castle

 

 

Thursday, June 3

Session 5, chair V. G. Callender 

9.00 – 9.30 pm

Myśłiwiec, K.,

Dry moat west of the step pyramid at Saqqara – recent discoveries

9.30 – 10.00

Ćwiek, A.,

Mortuary complex of Netjerykhet – a re-evaluation;

10.30 – 11.00 am

Vymazalová, H.

             Administrative documents of Abusir Papyrus Archives;

 

11.00 – 11.30 am Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

Vlčková, P.

The spatial distribution of the funerary equipment in the Memphite necropolis at the end of the Old Kingdom

11.30 – 12.00 am

Ikram, S.,

An Old Kingdom offering list realised;

 

12.00 am – 1.30 pm Lunch Break

 

Session 6, chair J. Allen

1.30 – 2.00 pm

Pieke, G.,

The Man and the Lotus – local and gender traditions

 

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Schulz, R.,

            Images of  dogs in Old Kingdom art;

2.30 – 3.00 pm

Allen, J. S.,

Miniature and model vessels in the Old Kingdom;

3.00 – 3.30 pm

Kuraszkiewicz, K.,

The title of the „God’s Treasurer” and the royal expeditions in the Old Kingdom ;

 

3.30 – 4.00 pm Coffee Break

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm

Rowland, J. M.,

Grave consequences: developing analytical methods to elucidate patterns of social

differentiation at early Egyptian cemetery sites;

4.30 – 5.00 pm

Freed, R.

            Defining Style in Sculpture of the First Intermediate Period;

 

 

Friday, June 4

Session 7, chair F. Heykal 

9.00 – 9.30 am

Roth, A. M.,

Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels;

9.30 – 10.00 am

Callender, V. G.,

The Iconography and Status of the Princess in the Old Kingdom

10.00 – 10.30 am

Yoshimura, S., Kawai, N.,

A new early Old Kingdom layered stone structure at North Saqqara: A Preliminary

Report;

 

10.30 – 11.00 am Coffee Break

 

11.00 – 11.30 am

 Shirai, Y.,

Ideal and reality in Old Kingdom private funerary cults;

11.30 – 12.00 am

Brovarski, E.,

 False Doors and History:  the Old Kingdom (Dynasty VI);

 

12.00 am – 1.15 pm Lunch Break

 

1.15 – 1.45 pm

Langráfová, R.,

Faience fragments from the funerary temple of Neferefre;

 

1.45 – 2.15 pm

Harvey, J.,

Continuity or Collapse – artistic styles in wooden statues after the end of the Old

Kingdom;

2.15 – 2.45 pm

Benešovská, H.;

Statues from the Pyramid Complex of Neferefra

 

 

 

3.00 pm End of the conference, final meeting, plenary discussion

 

 

Evening: Jazz boat river trip

 

 

 

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