Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, Italy 23-30 August 2015

Presents proceedings from the eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place at the Florence Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio Firenze), Italy from 23- 30 August 2015.

The Egyptian Museum of Florence, in collaboration with the University of Florence, hosted the Eleventh International Congress of Egyptologists which took place from 23rd to 30th August 2015, under the patronage of the IAE – International Association of Egyptologists. This volume publishes 136 papers and posters presented during the Congress. Topics discussed here range from archaeology, religion, philology, mummy investigations and archaeometry to history, offering an up-to-date account of research in these fields.

Preface - Volume Editors ; Papers fabrique d'albatre et un atelier de tissage au Ramesseum? - Guy Lecuyot ; Deux nouvelles 'Recommandations aux pretres' datees de Ptolemee X Alexandre Ier - Nicolas Leroux ; Scenes representing temple rituals on some 21st Dynasty coffins - Eva Liptay ; Building B, a domestic construction at Tell el-Ghaba, North Sinai - Silvia Lupo, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Claudia Kohen and Eva Calomino ; The Montecelio Obelisk in Rome - Lise Manniche ; The role of e-learning in Egyptology: 'Hieroglyphs: Step-by-Step' website as a case study - Ahmed Mansour and Azza Ezzat ; The function and importance of some special categories of stars in the Ancient Egyptian funerary texts, 1: AxAx- and iAd-stars - Alicia Maravelia ; Chapel of the tomb belonging to Amenhotep III's Vizier, Amenhotep Huy. Asasif Tomb No. 28, Luxor-West Bank. Excavation results: 'Vizier Amenhotep Huy Project' (2009-2014) - Francisco J. Martin-Valentin and Teresa Bedman ; Objets decouverts dans des tombes Thebaines situees sous le Temple de Millions d'Annees de Thoutmosis III a l'ouest de Louxor - Javier Martinez Babon ; Fish offerings found in Area 32 of the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) - Maite Mascort Roca and Esther Pons Mellado ; The Akh-menu of Thutmosis III at Karnak. The Sokarian Rooms - Julie Masquelier-Loorius ; The 13th Dynasty at Abydos: a royal tomb and its context - Dawn McCormack ; The transmission of the Book of the Twelve Caverns - Daniel M. Mendez Rodriguez ; A new reading of Problem No. 53 in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The limits of proportionality - Marianne Michel ; The ang-morphs in Coptic and their grammaticalization in Later Egyptian - So Miyagawa ; 'Augmented Reality' technology and the dissemination of historical graffiti in the Temple of Debod - Miguel Angel Molinero Polo, Alfonso Martin Flores, Jorge Martin Gutierrez, Cristobal Ruiz Medina, Lucia Diaz-Iglesias Llanos, Fernando Guerra-Librero Fernandez, Daniel Miguel Mendez Rodriguez, Luis Navarrete Ruiz, Manuel Rivas Fernandez and Ovidia Soto Martin ; The Min Project. First working seasons on the unpublished Tomb of Min (TT109) and Tomb Kampp -327-: the Tomb of May and a replica of the Tomb of Osiris - Irene Morfini and Milagros Alvarez Sosa ; Figurative vase painting from the First Intermediate Period through to the Fatimid Dynasty: a continuity? - Maya Muller ; Basic considerations on the construction of pyramids in the Old Kingdom - Frank Muller-Romer ; Die Verwendung von Munzen in pharaonischer Zeit - Renate Muller-Wollermann ; In the footsteps of Ricardo Caminos: rediscovering the 'Speos of Gebel el Silsila' - Maria Nilsson and Philippe Martinez ; The folding cubit rod of Kha in Museo Egizio di Torino, S.8391 - Naoko Nishimoto ; The mystery of the 'high place' from the Abbott Papyrus revealed? The results of the works of the Polish Cliff Mission at Deir el-Bahari 1999-2014 - Andrzej Niwinski ; The mummies of the 'Three Sisters' in the Museo Egizio: a case study. Conservation and studies of textiles and bandages - Cinzia Oliva and Matilde Borla ; Technical aspects of faience from Hierakonpolis, Egypt - a preliminary report - Marina Panagiotaki, Elizabeth Walters, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Horus Seneferou ka-s quand le dernier souverain de la Ire dynastie devint la premiere femme pharaon de l'Histoire a porter un nom d'Horus - Jean-Pierre Patznick ; The Herakleopolis Magna Project: seasons 2012-2015 - M. Carmen Perez-Die ; The Stelae Ridge cairns: a reassessment of the archaeological evidence - Hannah Pethen ; The Italian-Egyptian Mission at the Monastery of Abba Nefer at Manqabad: results of the first four seasons' work - Rosanna Pirelli, Ilaria Incordino, Paola Buzi and Anna Salsano ; Wedjat-eyes as a dating criterion for false doors and stelae to the early Middle Kingdom - Melanie Pitkin ; La collection egyptienne du Musee Sandelin a Saint-Omer (France) - Jean-Louis Podvin ; Some remarks on the Egyptian reception of foreign military technology during the 18th Dynasty: a brief survey of the armour - Alberto Maria Pollastrini ; Medical re-enactments: Ancient Egyptian prescriptions from an Emic viewpoint - Tanja Pommerening ; Textual layers in Coffin Texts Spells 154-160 - Gyula Priskin ; The cat mummies of the Societa Africana d'Italia: an archaeological, cultural and religious perspective - Maria Diletta Pubblico ; Khnum the Creator: a puzzling case of the transfer of an iconographic motif - Maarten J. Raven ; Temple ranks in the Fayyum during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: documentary sources and archaeological data - Ilaria Rossetti ; Le musee de Mallawi : etat des lieux apres les destructions et projets pour l'avenir - Ashraf Alexandre Sadek ; A new light on Coptic afterlife (O.4550 from the Coptic Museum in Cairo) - Hind Salah El-Din Somida Awad ; The lost chapels of Elephantine. Preliminary results of a reconstruction study through archival documents - Daniele Salvoldi and Simon Delvaux ; Doors to the past. Rediscovering fragments in the new blockyard at Medinet Habu - Julia Schmied ; Les depots de fondation de la Vallee des Rois : nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur l'histoire de la necropole royale du Nouvel Empire - Francois C. A. Schmitt ; Economic mentalities and Ancient Egyptian legal documents - Alexander Schutze ; Excavations in the 'Temple of Millions of Years' of Thutmosis III - Myriam Seco Alvarez ; Rituels funeraires au temps de Hatchepsout : le sanctuaire de la tombe de Djehouty et ses paralleles - Jose M. Serrano ; The so-called Book of Two Ways on a Middle Kingdom religious leather roll - Wael Sherbiny ; Ibyc. PMGF 287 and Ancient Egyptian love songs - Anna Sofia ; The Physiologus in Egypt - Marco Stroppa ; A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids - Sarah L. Symons ; Blue painted pottery from a mid-18th Dynasty royal mud-brick structure in northwest Saqqara - Kazumitsu Takahashi ; Studies on BD 17 vignettes: iconographic typology of Rw.tj-scene (New Kingdom - Third Intermediate Period) - Mykola Tarasenko ; Were components of Amarna composite statues made in separate workshops? - Kristin Thompson ; Research on Old Kingdom 'dissimilation graphique'. World-view and categorization - Simon Thuault ; La funzione del tempio tolemaico di Deir el-Medina alla luce dell'archeologia - Claudia Tirel Cena ; The 'geography' of the hierogrammateis: the religious topography of the Western Harpoon (7th Nome of Lower Egypt) - Elena Tiribilli ; The Ancient Egyptian shabtis discovered in the regions of Roman Illyricum (Dalmatia, Pannonia) and Istria: provenance, collections, typological study and dating - Mladen Tomorad ; From Egypt to the Holy Land: first issues on the Egyptian collection in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem - Benedetta Torrini ; Tradition and innovation within the decoration program of the temple of Ramesses II at Gerf Hussein - Martina Ullmann ; The Egyptian Execration Statuettes (EES) Project - Athena Van der Perre ; A new long-term digital project on Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs - Ursula Verhoeven and Svenja A. Gulden ; Hierakonpolis Faience, 2005-2013, with context and accompanying finds - a quest for chronology and possible use - Elizabeth J. Walters, Amr El Gohary, Shelton S. Alexander, Richard R. Parizek, David P. Gold, Recep Cakir, Marina Panagiotaki, Yannis Maniatis and Anna Tsoupra ; Elhe Berlin Plans from the New Kingdom Period - Yoshifumi Yasuoka ; The career of Nakhtmin (TT 87) as revealed by his funerary cones - Kento Zenihiro ; Object biographies and political expectations: Egyptian artefacts, Welsh Heritage and the regional community museum - Katharina Zinn ; Who am I - and if so, how many? Some remarks on the 'j-augment' and language change - Monika Zoller-Engelhardt ; Poster presentations PapersPoster presentations List of papers presented at ICE XI – M. Franci