LIʙER AмICORUм–SPECULUм SIDERUм

Liber Amicorum–Speculum Siderum:
NŪt Astrophoros
Papers Presented to Alicia Maravelia
Edited by
Nadine Guilhou
With the help of Antigoni Maniati
Archaeopress Egyptology 17
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Nadine GUILHOU & Antigoni MANIATI: Contents, Authors, Affiliations & Addresses, Tabula Gratulatoria TABLE OF CONTENTS Blessing by His Eminence the Archbishop of Sinai Mgr DAMIANOS: ……………………………………………. VII Table of Contents: …………………………………………………………………………………………………… . . IX Authors & Affiliations: …………………………………………………………………………………………..…… XI Tabula Gratulatoria: ………………………………………………………………………………………………… . XIII Foreword by H.E. the Former Minister of Hellas Mr Andreas ZAÏMIS: …………………………………………. XV Introduction by the Principal Editor Dr Nadine GUILHOU: ……………………………………………………… XIX Introduction by the Assistant Editor Mrs Antigoni MANIATI: ………………………………………………….. XXIII PART I: NŪT AND THE REALM OF STARS: ……………………………………………………………………………… 1 Nils BILLING: The Dialogue of Gēb and Nūt in Relation to the Royal Sarcophagus in the Pyramid of King Pepy I: ….. 3 Nadine GUILHOU: Le Soleil dans les Bras de Nūt dans les Tombes Thébaines: ………………………………………. 17 Mykola TARASENKO: The «Children of Nūt» and their Rebellion in Chapter 175A of the Book of the Dead: ………… 35 Bernard ARQUIER: L’Astérisme du Bélier dans l’Ancienne Égypte: ………………………………………………….. 49 Azza EZZAT: Staircases in Ancient Egyptian Pools: Iconographic Attestations and Ouranographic Connotations: … 59 Brigitte VALLÉE: Les Hypocéphales et la Déesse Céleste Nūt: ………………………………………………………….. 75 Kurt LOCHER: Gods Coming from the Left – Possible Astronomical Origins of Religious Processions: ……………… 93 Sabine STEMMLER–HARDING: Devil in Disguise – On the Stellar Mythology of cApophis and its Potential Con‐ nection to the Constellation @tp-Rdwy: ……………………………………………… 95 Frank GODDIO: Un Récit de la Création ressurgit des Profondeurs: ………………………………………………… 115 Anne–Sophie VON BOMHARD: The Genesis of the Stars in Ancient Egypt, according to the Naos of the Decades: … 123 Massimiliano FRANCI: Defining Time: ……………………………………………………………………………… 139 Gaëlle CHANTRAIN: Une Journée dans le Temps et l’Espace – Remarques Lexicales au Sujet de hrw et grH: ……… 151 Themis G. DALLAS: The Ancient Skyscape Over the Sanctuary of Egyptian Gods in Marathōn: ………………… . 153 Mona HAGGAG: The Tazza Farnese: An Alexandrian Vision of the Cosmos: ………………………………………. 167 Jean–Pierre LEVET: Les Constellations Anthropomorphes de l’Hémisphère Nord et l’Astrosophie chez Ptolémée: … 177 PART II: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGION, ART, HISTORY AND THEIR CELESTIAL UNDERTONES: ………………. 189 Jean–Pierre PÄTZNICK: La Déesse d’Éléphantine à l’Époque Thinite – Tabouisation Locale du Nom Divin: ……… 191 Tatjana A. SHERKOVA: Sacral Numbers in Ancient Egypt – Historical and Psychological Study: ………………… 199 Mohammed AZZAZY & Azza EZZAT: The Sycamore in Ancient Egypt – Textual, Iconographic & Archaeopaly‐ nological Thoughts: ……………………………………………………………… … 209 Ahmed MANSOUR: Notes on the Role of #tm(w)/#tmty-NTr in Turquoise Mining Expeditions: ………………… . . 221 Dina ᾽EL‐GABRY: A Fragmentary Dyad of Penwah and of his Wife Meryt – Cairo Museum JE 27955, CG 1003: … 229 Hamdy Ahmed ᾽EL‐SOROGY: The Flea Insect as a New Symbol for God Seth: ……………………………………. 239 Hedvig GYŐRY: On the History of Feline Amulets – A Preliminary Study of Cat Amulets: ………………………. 245 Detlev QUINTERN: The Lion and the Mouse – Travelling Ethics: …………………………………………………… 267 Sophia TSOURINAKI: Between Dionysos and Christ – Cosmological Images on a Hellenistic Funerary Textile: …… 277 Ashraf–Alexandre SADEK: De la Spiritualité des Anciens Égyptiens à la Spiritualité Chrétienne: ………………. . 287 Youhanna N. YOUSSEF: The Date of Consecration of the Sanctuary of Patriarch Benjamin: ………………………. 297 Manto PAPAÏOANNOU: Psychostasia in Byzantine Art through the Iconography of Archangel Michael: ………… . 307 PART III: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MATHEMATICS, MEDICINE, ARCHAEOANTHROPOLOGY AND EGYPTOMANIA: … 309 Irem ASLAN–SEYHAN: Considerations on the Study of Ancient Egyptian Mathematics in Modern Turkey: ……… 311 Stephanos GEROULANOS: An Introduction to Alexandrian Medicine & Surgery: …………………………………. 321 Constantinos TRIANTAPHYLLIDIS: The Genetic History of Hellas, Egypt and of the Near East and the DNA Study of King Tutcankhamūn: …………………………………………………… … 329 Adam ŁUKASZEWICZ: One more Hand that rocked the Cradle of Egyptology – Count Jan Potocki: ………………. . 341 Mladen TOMORAD: Aegyptiaca and Various Forms of Egyptomania in Croatia: …………………………………… 349 Antigoni MANIATI: Brief CV & List of Publications of Prof. Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA: …………………………… 365 Evi BATRA: Epilogue – Dr Dr Alicia MARAVELIA & the Association of Greek Women Scientists: …………………. 373 [IX]