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ANCIENT EGYPT www.ancientegyptmagazine.com JULY/AUGUST 2024 Volume 24•Number 5•Issue no.143 EDITORIAL Editor: J Peter Phillips peter@ancientegyptmagazine.com Deputy Editor: Sarah Grif fiths sarah@ancientegyptmagazine.com Consultant Editor: Professor Emerita Rosalie David, OBE Staf f Contributors: Hilar y Wilson, Peter Robinson, Dr Campbell Price Ar t Editor: Mark Edwards Designer: Emma Morgan Subeditor: Simon Coppock Publisher: Maria Earle Managing Director: Robert Selkirk COMMERCIAL Commercial Manager: Mike Traylen mike@ancientegyptmagazine.com Marketing & Digital Manager: Emma Watts-Plumpkin emma@ancientegyptmagazine.com Commercial Director: Libby Selkirk SUBSCRIPTIONS Ancient Egypt is published six t imes a year by Current Publishing Ltd Website: www.ancientegyptmagazine.com UK: £31.95 Rest of the World: £43.95 Subscriptions should be sent to: Current Publishing, Of fice 120, 295 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4HH Phone: 020 8819 5580 Email: subs@ancientegyptmagazine.com USA and Canada USA: $55 Canada: CDN$67 Ancient Egypt July/August 2024 (ISSN 1470 -9996) is published 6 t imes a year (bi-monthly) by Current Publishing, Of fice 120, 295 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4HH, United Kingdom. Distributed in the US by NPS Media Group, 2 Enterprise Drive, Suite 420, Shelton, CT 06484. Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, CT and at additional mailing of fices . Postmaster: Send address changes to Ancient Egypt, PO Box 37052, Boone, IA 50037- 0052. Phone: 1- 8 6 6 - 4 01- 78 01 Email: aegcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com Printed in the UK by William Gibbons Unauthorised reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. The publisher, editor and authors accept no responsibility in respect of any products, goods or services which may be advertised or referred to in this issue. Every effort has been made to secure permission for copyright material. In the event of any material being used inadvertently or where it has proved impossible to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue. ANCIENT EGYPT THE HISTORY, PEOPLE, AND CULTURE OF THE NILE VALLEY PRECIOUS STONE FROM AFGHANISTAN LAPIS LAZULI A CONUNDRUM A CONUNDRUM What are these enigmatic golden cylinders from Nubia? What are these enigmatic golden cylinders from Nubia? £5.95 ISSUE 143 ON THE COVER Three gilded silver cylinder-sheaths from the tomb of the Nubian king Aspelta (c.600-580 BC). CREDIT Peter Lacovara I S S U E 14 3 editor From the From time to time, excavators of ancient sites come across artefacts that they cannot identify. The beautifully decorated gold cylinders pictured on our cover are a case in point. They were found in the tomb of a Napatan king at Nuri in Sudan. Over the years since their discovery in 1916, there have been many suggestions as to their purpose, but all have been discounted… until now. Peter Lacovara has solved the mystery! There was no doubt as to the purpose of Tutankhamun’s gold mask when it was discovered. It was inset with blue glass and faience in imitation of lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone that had been greatly treasured from the earliest times but was in short supply, as it had to be traded over hundreds of miles from its source in the quarries of Afghanistan. Hilary Wilson traces its use over the millennia. In September, the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference will be held at the University of Liverpool. CRE events allow British and overseas postgraduate students and independent researchers to showcase their work in a series of short presentations. Three of the papers to be presented are previewed in this issue, and three more will be included in AE 144. For our regular ‘Out and About’ article in this issue, Geoffrey Lenox-Smith describes the unusual Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis – a rare example of a monument built during the Persian occupation of Egypt. It happens to be one of my own favourite sites, because of its importance in the evolution of column design: a transition from campaniform papyrus columns to the composite form that became the norm in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. In AE 123, Professor Paul Nicholson introduced us to his work at the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, where the dogs buried in the Catacombs of Anubis were bred for sacrifice. In this issue, he takes a wider view of the necropolis site, describing a project to establish the relative chronology of its various parts. On 16 May, as I completed preparation of this issue, I heard the very sad news of the death of Professor Barry Kemp, who was one of the greatest Egyptologists of our time. For decades, he has worked tirelessly to preserve and restore the site of Akhenaten’s city at Amarna, and his legacy will live on forever. will live on forever. BELOW The Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis. J Peter Phillips, Editor illips Ph : J P Image 3

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ANCIENT EGYPT

www.ancientegyptmagazine.com

JULY/AUGUST 2024 Volume 24•Number 5•Issue no.143

EDITORIAL Editor: J Peter Phillips peter@ancientegyptmagazine.com Deputy Editor: Sarah Grif fiths sarah@ancientegyptmagazine.com Consultant Editor: Professor Emerita Rosalie David, OBE Staf f Contributors: Hilar y Wilson, Peter Robinson, Dr Campbell Price Ar t Editor: Mark Edwards Designer: Emma Morgan Subeditor: Simon Coppock Publisher: Maria Earle Managing Director: Robert Selkirk COMMERCIAL Commercial Manager: Mike Traylen mike@ancientegyptmagazine.com Marketing & Digital Manager: Emma Watts-Plumpkin emma@ancientegyptmagazine.com Commercial Director: Libby Selkirk SUBSCRIPTIONS Ancient Egypt is published six t imes a year by Current Publishing Ltd Website: www.ancientegyptmagazine.com UK: £31.95 Rest of the World: £43.95 Subscriptions should be sent to: Current Publishing, Of fice 120, 295 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4HH Phone: 020 8819 5580 Email: subs@ancientegyptmagazine.com USA and Canada USA: $55 Canada: CDN$67 Ancient Egypt July/August 2024 (ISSN 1470 -9996) is published 6 t imes a year (bi-monthly) by Current Publishing, Of fice 120, 295 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4HH, United Kingdom. Distributed in the US by NPS Media Group, 2 Enterprise Drive, Suite 420, Shelton, CT 06484. Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, CT and at additional mailing of fices . Postmaster: Send address changes to Ancient Egypt, PO Box 37052, Boone, IA 50037- 0052. Phone: 1- 8 6 6 - 4 01- 78 01 Email: aegcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com Printed in the UK by William Gibbons

Unauthorised reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. The publisher, editor and authors accept no responsibility in respect of any products, goods or services which may be advertised or referred to in this issue. Every effort has been made to secure permission for copyright material. In the event of any material being used inadvertently or where it has proved impossible to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue.

ANCIENT EGYPT

THE HISTORY, PEOPLE, AND CULTURE OF THE NILE VALLEY

PRECIOUS STONE FROM AFGHANISTAN

LAPIS LAZULI

A CONUNDRUM A CONUNDRUM

What are these enigmatic golden cylinders from Nubia? What are these enigmatic golden cylinders from Nubia?

£5.95 ISSUE 143

ON THE COVER Three gilded silver cylinder-sheaths from the tomb of the Nubian king Aspelta (c.600-580 BC). CREDIT Peter Lacovara

I S S U E 14 3

editor From the

From time to time, excavators of ancient sites come across artefacts that they cannot identify. The beautifully decorated gold cylinders pictured on our cover are a case in point. They were found in the tomb of a Napatan king at Nuri in Sudan. Over the years since their discovery in 1916, there have been many suggestions as to their purpose, but all have been discounted… until now. Peter Lacovara has solved the mystery!

There was no doubt as to the purpose of Tutankhamun’s gold mask when it was discovered. It was inset with blue glass and faience in imitation of lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone that had been greatly treasured from the earliest times but was in short supply, as it had to be traded over hundreds of miles from its source in the quarries of Afghanistan. Hilary Wilson traces its use over the millennia.

In September, the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference will be held at the University of Liverpool. CRE events allow British and overseas postgraduate students and independent researchers to showcase their work in a series of short presentations. Three of the papers to be presented are previewed in this issue, and three more will be included in AE 144.

For our regular ‘Out and About’ article in this issue, Geoffrey Lenox-Smith describes the unusual Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis – a rare example of a monument built during the Persian occupation of Egypt. It happens to be one of my own favourite sites, because of its importance in the evolution of column design: a transition from campaniform papyrus columns to the composite form that became the norm in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods.

In AE 123, Professor Paul Nicholson introduced us to his work at the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, where the dogs buried in the Catacombs of Anubis were bred for sacrifice. In this issue, he takes a wider view of the necropolis site, describing a project to establish the relative chronology of its various parts.

On 16 May, as I completed preparation of this issue, I heard the very sad news of the death of Professor Barry Kemp, who was one of the greatest Egyptologists of our time. For decades, he has worked tirelessly to preserve and restore the site of Akhenaten’s city at Amarna, and his legacy will live on forever.

will live on forever.

BELOW The Temple of Hibis in Kharga Oasis.

J Peter Phillips, Editor illips

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