“Middle Kingdom Studies”, la nuova collana di volumi completamente dedicata al Medio Regno, si arricchisce di una seconda pubblicazione: “The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), Vol. II” (ed. Miniaci, Grajetzki). Sono particolarmente felice di presentarvi quest’opera perché ho collaborato per l’editing finale. In ogni caso, seguendo l’impostazione del 1° volume, il testo raccoglie interventi di studiosi internazionali su tematiche riguardanti l’Egitto dal 2000 al 1550 a.C. circa. Ricordo che la serie è stata ideata da Gianluca Miniaci (Università di Pisa), caporedattore, per dar voce a un argomento stranamente poco dibattuto, anche grazie a un approccio multidisciplinare che non si limiti alla sola egittologia, ma che comprenda anche archeometria, sociologia, antropologia e lo studio di aree geografiche limitrofe. Nel corso del 2016, sono previsti altri tre volumi della serie: Stephen Quirke, “Birth tusks: the armoury of health in context – Egypt 1800 BC”; Lubica Hudáková, Andrea Kahlbacher (ed.), “Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art. Proceedings of the MeKeTRE Study Day held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (3rd May 2013)”; Danijela Stefanović, “Dossiers of Ancient Egyptian Women. The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period”.
Gli articoli del secondo volume (http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/index2.htm) sono i seguenti:
- Tombs in transition: MIDAN.05 and windows in the early Eighteenth Dynasty
Marilina Betrò - Precious finds from an early Middle Kingdom tomb in Thebes: reconstructing connections between the dead and their goods
Anna Consonni - Umm-Mawagir in Kharga Oasis: an Industrial Landscape of the Late Middle Kingdom/Second Intermediate Period
John Darnell, Colleen Darnell - The tomb of a Governor of Elkab of the Second Intermediate Period
Vivian Davies - An Isolated Middle Kingdom Tomb At Dayr Al-Barsha
Marleen De Meyer - The Transmission of Offices in The Middle Kingdom
Nathalie Favry - The stela of the Thirteenth Dynasty treasurer Senebsumai
Wolfram Grajetzki, Gianluca Miniaci - Some Remarks on the Relations between Egypt and the Levant during the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
Karin Kopetzky - Female Burials in the Funerary Complexes of the Twelfth Dynasty: an Architectonic Approach
Ingrid Melandri - Diachronic questions of form and function: falcon-head utensils in Middle Kingdom contexts
Stephen Quirke - The Egg is a metaphor for Isis: a Coffin Text Imagery
Mohammed Gamal Rashed - ‘Writing-Board Stelae’ with Sokar-Formula: Preliminary Account
Gloria Rosati - Two loose blocks from Hawara of Sobek-Hotep
Ashraf Senussi, Said Abd Alhafeez Abd Allah Kheder - An unpublished Scarab of Queen Tjan (Thirteenth Dynasty) from the Louvre Museum (AF 6755)
Julien Siesse - Literary exploitation of a craftman’s device: the sandal-maker biting leather (Teaching of Chety, pSallier VIII, 12). When philology, iconography and archaeology overlap
Pascal Vernus - Boundaries of Protection: Function and Significance of the Framing (Lines) on Middle Kingdom Apotropaia, in particular Magic Wands
Fred Vink - On the Context and Conception of Two ‘Trademark’ Styles from Late Middle Kingdom Abydos
Paul Whelan
