Conference Programme

15^th October

Morning – Teatro Comunale di Sarteano (Siena)

9:00            Opening Ceremony

11:30-12:00  Opening Lecture: Prof. Dr. Antonio Loprieno (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

Water and Literature in Ancient Egypt  

12:00-12:30  Dr. Guenther Lapp (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

A new program for editing hieroglyphs: Visualglyph 

12:30-14:45   Buffet-lunch in “Azienda Agricola Martignano” and visit to “Chiostro del Palazzo Cernini - XV sec.” of  Sarteano

Afternoon Session  – “Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian Literature”

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Antonio Loprieno (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

15:30-16:00 Renata LANDGRÁFOVÁ (Czech National Centre for Egyptology - Prague, Czech Republic)

     “A Bounty Boundless as the Sea”. Water in Ancient Egyptian Love Songs

16:00-16:30   Giacomo CAVILLIER (Università  degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

   Il pXr-wr e il suo significato nella letteratura egiziana a sfondo bellico

16:30-17:00  Dr. Hana NAVRATILOVA (Czech National Centre for Egyptology - Prague, Czech Republic)

The Unwetterstele of Ahmose as a Historical Text

17:00-17:30  Coffee break

17:30-18:00    Aline GALLASCH-HALL (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Water and the Corpus Hermeticum - The European view

18:00-18:30    Carsten KNIGGE (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

“He keeps the Nile flowing, the field is full of his richness”.

 Inundation and Fertility in post-New Kingdom Hymns and other Religious Texts

16^th October

Morning  Session –“ Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian History and Culture”

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Yvan Koenig (Institute Catholique – Paris, France)

9:00-9:30    Prof. Dr. Mario Liverani (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

      Sahelian and Near Eastern Features in Ancient Egyptian Irrigation System

9:30-10:00    Ernst KANITZ (Universität Wien, Austria)

            La gestione delle risorse idriche nell’Egitto antico e moderno: un confronto

10:00-10:30  Nuria TORRAZ BEZENET (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Diachronical Reconstruction of the Hydrographical Network Operating upon Mythical and Cultural Landscape in the XIXth Nome of Upper Egypt

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-11:30  Dr. Roselyne CEPKO (École du Louvre - Paris, France) 

Amenemhat III et le divinités aquatiques : Essai d’interprétation de la politique royale dans l’oasis du     Fayoum

11 :30-12:00  Bryan KRAEMER (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

  Faiyum and the λίμυη Μοίριος: A Computer Model for the “Land of the Lake”

12:00-12:30   Julia BUDKA (Universität Wien, Austria)

The Third Cataract: Its Historical and Political Importance according to Royal and Private Graffiti at Tombos

12:30-14:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session  – “Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian History and Culture”

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Mario Liverani (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

14:30-15:00  Prof. Dr. Yvan Koenig (Institute Catholique – Paris, France)

                        Water and Magic in Ancient Egypt

15:00-15:30  Dr. Marcelo CAMPAGNO (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Fighting the Water. On “Ordeals”, Kinship and State in The Contending of Horus and Seth (pChester Beatty I)

15:30-16:00  Dr. Kerry MUHLESTEIN (UCLA - Los Angeles, USA)

Death by Water: The Role of Water in Ancient Egypt’s Treatment of Enemies and Juridical Process

16:00-16:30  Coffee break

16:30-17:00 Alessia FASSONE (Università di Torino, Italy)

Canopo e le sue acque: il fiume, il lago, il mare. Vita e religiosità in età tardo-faraonica e greco-romana

17:00-17:30  Dr. Roberto GOZZOLI (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Water and Inundation as Divine Predilection in Egypt and Nubia during the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties (690-525 BC)

17:30-18:00  Dr. Renata TATOMIR (University of Bucarest, Romania)

“Negative”&”Positive”. Antonymy of Water in Ancient Egyptian Mental Universe

18:00-18:30  Brett HEAGREN (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Water-borne Diseases in Ancient Egypt

17^th October

Morning  Session –“ Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian religion”

Chairman : Dr. Martin Bommas (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

9:00-9:30     Dr. Susanne Bickel (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

Creative and Destructive Waters

9:30-10:00     Silvia EINAUDI (Università di Torino, Italy)

La “tomba di Osiride” e l’acqua: un modello di sepoltura ideale?

10:00-10:30  Benoit CLAUS (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Osiris et Hâpi : la Crue et la régénération dans l’Égypte ancienne

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:0-11:30   Eliana M. LABORINHO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Nun, the Primeval Water according to the Coffin Texts

11 :30-12:00 Holger ROTSCH (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

The Primeval Ocean Nun and the Terminology of Water in Ancient Egypt

12:00-12:30  Angelique CORTHALS (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

The New Year Procession in the Staircases at Edfu and Dendera

12:30-13:00  Mladen TOMORAD (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Egyptian Cults of Isis and Serapis in Roman Fleets

12:30-14:30  Lunch

Afternoon

Excursions to the “Etruscan Museum” in Chianciano Terme, “Etruscan Museum” in Sarteano and to “Porsenna’s Labyrinth” in Chiusi

20:30 Official Dinner

18^th October

Morning  Session –“ Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian Ritual and Cult”

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Alessandro Roccati (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

9:30-10:00    Dr. Martin BOMMAS (Universität Basel, Switzerland)

The Offering of Water in the Divine Funerary Cult from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Times

10:00-10:30  Rita LUCARELLI (Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, The Netherlands)

Libation Offering in the Book of the Dead: a Ritual Text in the Papyrus of Gatseshen

10:30-11:00  Coffee break  

11:00-11:30  Kate LISZKA (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

An Evaluation of the Use of Water Clocks in the Ritual of Appeasement

11:30-12:00  Aaron SMITH (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

The Use of Water in the Coronation Ritual of the Pharaoh

12:00-12:30  Dr. Augusto COSENTINO (Università di Messina, Italy)

Il battesimo nei testi di Nag Hammadi  

12:30-13:00  Emil BUZOV (New Bulgarian University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

The Role of the Heart in the Purification

13:00-14:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session  – “Salone delle Terme” di Chianciano Terme

“Water in Ancient Egyptian Ritual and Cult”

Chairman : Prof. Dr. Hartwig Altenmüller (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

14:30-15:00  Regina HÖLZL (Museum of Fine Arts - Wien, Austria)

Libation Basins from the Old to the New Kingdom: Practical Use and Religious Significance

15:00-15:30  Sabina SPORTELLINI (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

L’acqua, essenza purificatrice e rigenerante: il vaso heset, contenitore rituale del prezioso liquido in alcune delle iconografie più ricorrenti

15:30-16:00  Karin DOHRMANN (Universität Göttingen, Germany)

Das Sedfest-Ritual Sesostris I. – Kontext und Semantik des Dekorationsprogramms der Lischter Sitzstatuen

16:00-16:30  Marie-Eve COLIN (Universitè IV Sorbonne - Paris, France)

Bringing the Water to the Gods. Rituals and Offerings within the Barque Sanctuaries of the Graeco-Roman Period

16:30-17:00  Coffee break

17:00-17:30  Prof. Dr. Alessandro Roccati (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy)

                        “Calmo più dell’acqua in uno stagno”

17:30              Closing Plenary session

Posters

1     -     Charlotte BOOTH (Birkbeck University, United Kingdom)

            The Uses and Abuses of Water in Papyrus Westcar

2    -     Maria Costanza CENTRONE (University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom)

            “This is the form of […] Osiris of the mysteries, who springs from the returning waters”

            (South Wall of the Osiris Room at the Great Temple of Philae)

3    -      Angelique CORTHALS (American Museum of Natural History, USA)

            Dangerous Waters: Shistosomiasis in Ancient and Modern Egypt

4    -      Massimiliano FRANCI (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

            Qualche considerazione sul campo semantico del determinativo mw

5    -       Svetlana RUZANOVA (Moscow State University, Russia)

            Neith of Sais as Water Goddess

6    -       Rogerio SOUSA (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

            Heart, Water and Fire in Ancient Egypt: the Role of Cosmic Elements in Regeneration of Human Life

7   -       Sigrid VAN ROODE (PalArch Foundation, The Netherlands)

            www.PalArch.nl, a New Web-based Netherlands Scientific Journal  

8   -       Andrea Paula ZINGARELLI (University of La Plata, Argentina)

            Some considerations about the water offered (poured) by the Tree Goddess at TT 49