Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in our knowledge still remain. This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the Roman period.

The essays cover topics such as animal husbandry, mummification, species-specific studies, the archaeology and economy of the animal cults, funerary practices, iconography and symbolism. The contribution of archaeometrical methods, such as DNA analyses, balms' analyses, AMS dating, radiography, and 3D imaging, are also represented as these play a significant role in furthering our understanding of the human-animal relationship in Egypt.

The range of subject matter and contributors are indicative of the importance of animals and the role that they played in ancient Egypt and Nubia, and emphasises the need for continued inter- and multidisciplinary studies on the subject. The research outlined in this volume has helped, for example, to better identify ways of sourcing the animals used in mummification, contributed to establishing the eras during which animal mummification became common, and highlighted new techniques for acquiring DNA.

The fresh insights and diversity of topics makes the volume of interest for professionals (Egyptologists, (archaeo-)zoologists and historians), as well as those who are interested in Egyptology and in the relationship between humans and animals. 'Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky' is the result of the first international conference ever dedicated to animals in ancient Egypt and Nubia (the International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt, ISAAE 1, June 1-3 2016, held in Lyon).


Contents:

Abstracts

Preface
Stephanie Porcier, Salima Ikram & Stephane Pasquali

L'exploitation de l'autruche dans l'Egypte ancienne : l'exemple des perles en coquille d'ouf d'autruche
Halima Ali Toybou

Scanning Sobek: Mummy of the Crocodile God
Julie Anderson & Daniel Antoine

Donkey Burials at Tell El-Yahudia
Aiman Ashmawy Ali

A propos des noms d'especes appartenant au sous-ordre des sauria (lezards) attestes en Egypte ancienne et medievale : un tour d'horizon zoologique et lexicographique
Sydney H. Aufrere

Early Travellers and the Animal `Mummy Pits' of Egypt: Exploration and Exploitation of the Animal Catacombs in the Age of Early Travel
Tessa T. Baber

From Egyptology to Ornithology: The Cults of Sacred Falcons and The Musee des Confluences' Raptor Mummies
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer

Interpreting the Faunal Remains from the Tombs at the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II in Western Thebes: Funerary Practices, Ritual Practices or, Perhaps, Something Else?
Fabio Bona, Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino & Angelo Sesana

Une analyse chimique de la composition de baumes de momies animales egyptiennes conservees au musee des Confluences (Lyon, France)
Manon Bondetti, Stephanie Porcier, Matthieu Menager & Cathy Vieillescazes

Economie du culte des animaux sacres en Egypte hellenistique et romaine
Silvia Bussi

Boufs d'Egypte, boufs du Soudan : une morphologie differente ?
Louis Chaix

L'etude des momies animales du musee des Confluences a Lyon. L'exemple des momies de poissons
Alain Charron

Des chiens et des bandelettes
Francoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Cecile Callou & Fleur Letellier-Willemin

Trapping Baqet's Rat
Linda Evans

De la valeur emblematique des dromadaires en terre cuite d'Egypte
Jerome Gonzalez

Formes et figures animales dans le mobilier egyptien
Helene Guichard

Shedding New Light on Old Corpses: Developments in the Field of Animal Mummy Studies
Salima Ikram

Mummies from the City of Canine Deities: An Analysis of Canid Osteofaunal Remains from the Tomb of the Dogs on Gebel Asyut al-Gharbi, Asyut, Middle Egypt
Chiori Kitagawa

Emploi et symbolisme des cornes de bovins au Protodynastique : Exemples d'Abou Rawach
Josephine Lesur

Apprehender les momies autrement. L'etude des textiles des momies de gazelles du musee des Confluences a Lyon
Fleur Letellier-Willemin

Known and Unknown Animals in a Bilingual Glossary on a Papyrus from Egypt, and the Egyptian Effect on the Small Animal of Callimachus
Nikos Litinas

Mummies at Manchester - applying the Manchester Methodology to the Study of Mummified Animal Remains from Ancient Egypt
Lidija McKnight & Stephanie Woolham

The North Ibis Catacomb at Saqqara
Paul T. Nicholson

The Conservation of Animal Mummies: Problems and Possible Solutions
Cinzia Oliva & Matilde Borla

La polychromie d'un cercueil de faucon d'epoque romaine
Sandrine Pages-Camagna & Yannick Vandenberghe

Sur la maniere dont un Egyptien a raconte l'installation de l'animal sacre de Mendes
Stephane Pasquali

Datations par le carbone 14 de 63 momies animales du musee des Confluences a Lyon (France)
Stephanie Porcier, Pascale Richardin, Gaetan Louarn, Salima Ikram & Didier Berthet

Les cinq momies de chat de la Societa africana d'Italia (SAI) : nouvelles recherches, nouvelles decouvertes
Maria Diletta Pubblico & Cinzia Oliva

The Burial Ground for Osiris-(NN)-Animals at Tuna el-Gebel
Katrin Annikka Schluter

A Study of the Wrapping of an Ibis Mummy from the Catacombs of Tuna-el-Gebel, Hermopolis
Ahmed Tarek, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Nesma Mohamed, Ahmed Khairy & Ahmed Abedellatif

The Conservation of Animal Mummies and Associated Materials: Case Studies from the C2RMF
Noelle Timbart

Le 'Tete-de-chien' (???????????) des Grecs : l'Egypte au prisme des animaux
Marco Vespa

'Fishing' for Mitochondrial DNA in Mummified Sacred Ibis: Development of a Targeted Enrichment Protocol Resolves the Ancient Egyptian DNA Survival Debate
Sally Wasef, Leon Huynen, Craig Donald Millar, Sankar Subramanian, Salima Ikram, Barbra Holland Eske Willerslev & David Martin Lambert

Taal: eng
Aantal pagina's: 300
Verschijningsdatum: 17-12-2019