http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/186084 2026-06-09T22:15:26Z 2026-06-09T22:15:26Z Mostafa, Hala http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/221411 2026-05-01T20:24:26Z 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Remarks on the Coffin Set of Maatkare JE 29612 from Bab El-Gasus Authors: Mostafa, Hala Abstract: The Egyptian Museum in Cairo currently houses the coffin set of the daughter of the high priest of Amun Pinudjem II, Maatkare (JE 29612), which was found in Bab El-Gasus’s cache and dates to the late 21st Dynasty. It is no. A. 132 in Daressey’s A. list and no. 80 by Niwiński. This coffin set is distinctive for a variety of reasons, and while it would be impossible to publish it in a single article, this paper will only highlight remarks that show these features, which are the many evidences of reuse, the lily collar on the outer lid, the position of Serqet on the central panel of the outer lid, bringing of the crowns ritual, presenting pectorals, the offering of Sms-antyw, the depiction of the child on the central partition of the lower section of the outer lid, the depiction of the deceased and the cow on a boat emerging from the western mountain, the depiction of Neith, in addition to the deceased lying on a boat on the interior of the outer case, and the absence of the outstretched winged figure on the central panel of the mummy cover.

2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Samir, Nermeen http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/220558 2026-03-24T13:21:53Z 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Theological and Ritual Semantics of the Color White in Ptolemaic and Roman Wall Painting Authors: Samir, Nermeen Abstract: This paper investigates the theological and ritual semantic symbolism of the color white in Ptolemaic and Roman wall painting through a multidisciplinary study of the pronaoi of the Temple of Hathor at Dendara, and of the Temple of Amun at Deir el-Hagar, and room I of the mammisi at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis. The study identifies the use of white within the Egyptian pigment practice, tracing the material evolution from ancient Egyptian palettes to the more varied Ptolemaic and Roman ones. Through integrated art-historical and archaeometric evidence, this research demonstrates that the preparatory layers and the white-painted surfaces in these sacred spaces were not merely artistic techniques but embodied symbolism. Thus this study proposes that the white pigment, both as matter and symbol, articulated an evolving dialogue between Egyptian purity and Greco-Roman metaphysics of light.

2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Samir, Nermeen http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/220557 2026-03-24T13:21:32Z 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Extrapolating prey’s fear and agony on a Roman mosaic from Thysdrus Authors: Samir, Nermeen Abstract: This paper builds on an interpretive framework for the visual language of animal fear through offering a new archaeological and iconographic reading of the mosaic panel depicting the onager-hunt from House of the Dionysian procession in Thysdrus. Arguing that the depiction is not merely symbolic of elite domination, but a deliberate rendering of a realistic and emotionally charged representation of prey suffering. This paper situates the mosaic within this broader Roman visual language through drawing on profound studies in animal comparative physiology and behavior, along with a detailed archaeological and stylistic analysis to argue that the mosaic is not a mere hunting scene but a vivid representation of emotional states that define a rare artistic articulation of prey’s fear that gradual in intensity to agony in one Roman mosaic.

2025-12-01T00:00:00Z Samir, Nermeen http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/220556 2026-03-24T13:21:09Z 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Childbirth Postures within the Egyptian Mammisis Authors: Samir, Nermeen Abstract: Graeco-Roman mammisis display acute archaeological evidence of the childbirth process, which demonstrates the various postures of childbirth taken on in Egypt that launched from kneeling on the bare ground to squatting on birth bricks, which got replaced by the sitting posture, either on thrones settled on royal beds, or on royal beds directly, and eventually arriving to squatting on the birth chair. It also illustrates well the expressed body language through the depicted birth postures within the mammisis.

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