Johannes Auenmüller

• Dr. phil., M.A.
• Curator at Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino

The study deals with different kinds of spatial relations of the Egyptian Elite of the New Kingdom that can be subsumed under and characterized with the term territoriality. The time span of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1070 BC) and its political situation and historical development form the cultural back­cloth of the monograph to follow. Before enter...

The (auto-)biographical discourse of the New Kingdom elite, particularly of the 18th Dynasty, focuses on the representation of the relationships between state offcials and the king. Specific spatial relations such as being in the following of the ruler or close to the king are thematized by means of certain recurring textual motives. These motives...

This paper deals with the signi cance of provincial New Kingdom elite tomb location. It aims to describe a key element of the relationship between the elite and the spatial distribution of their archaeological evidence in terms of ‘territoriality’. It focuses especially on the tomb, the pivotal component of the elite’s monumental display. A unique...

This article aims to discuss the dating of the Mastaba of Ti in Saqqara. Several scholarly perspectives on the chronology of this famous monument are dealt with, focussing on and contrasting their methods and results. There are two general points of view regarding its date, one that argues for the time of the kings Neferirkare and Niuserre, the oth...

Copper played a central role in the material culture of ancient Egypt. Appearing in the archaeological record as early as the fourth millennium BCE, copper and copper alloys were the most widely used metals throughout pharaonic history. Significant copper ore deposits, such as those of the Eastern Desert and Sinai, were located in proximity to the...

This paper presents research undertaken by scholars of Museo Egizio, Turin, the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino, the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, and the VR@POLITO lab.

Recent progress in the realm of imaging technologies has swiftly disseminated fresh methodologies for representing objects, broadening the horizons for scholars such as art historians, archaeologists, conservators, and conservation scientists. Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and three-dimensional (3D) modeling via Structure from Motion (Sf...

Recent trends in the Digital Humanities – conceived as new modalities of collaborative, transdisciplinary and computational research and presentation – also strongly influence research approaches and presentation practices in museums. Indeed, ongoing projects in museums have considerably expanded digital access to data and information, documentatio...

The experience described in this paper concerns the reconstruction of the temple of Ptah at Karnak with the aim to check and present two hypotheses for the original placement of statues of the goddess Sekhmet now kept at the Museo Egizio, Turin. The reconstruction including the statues, enjoyable through virtual reality, highlights its potential as...

This paper presents the results of elemental and lead isotopic analysis of copper alloys, copper-based pigments and an extremely rare tin-based alloy from the town of Amara West (Sudan), the centre for pharaonic control of occupied Upper Nubia between 1300 and 1070 BCE. It is the first assemblage of its kind to be analysed for Upper Nubia during th...

In 2008, the epigraphical evidence for the mid-18 th Dynasty king’s daughter Nbw-m-tḫ was published and discussed by Dina Faltings and Beatrix Gessler-Löhr. The list of objects belonging to the princess also includes four alabaster vessels held in the Museo Egizio Turin, two of which could be identified by the two scholars based on the data availab...

A small wooden bar inscribed with a sequence of well-known titles is discussed in terms of prosopography and its possible contextualization. The artefact of unknown provenance is currently kept at the Egyptian Museum of Bonn University. Since no name is preserved, the titles are first discussed in order to identify a potential owner and determine a...

Wachs- und Formmassen aus der Gusswerkstatt Qubbet el-Hawa - Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen der organischen Materialien (GC/MS)

This article aims to highlight the location of tombs of a specific group of the Egyptian New Kingdom religious elite, the so-called high priests. A first look at Theban, Memphite and Abydene high-priests and their tombs reveals that their tombs were in fact all erected in the elite necropolis of their place of office. In dis-cussing tombs of high p...

The Egyptian Museum of Bonn University (Germany) houses a unique collection of bronze casting workshop materials from the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, opposite from modern Aswan. They were discovered in 1969 by members of the Bonn excavation team under Elmar Edel in tomb QH 207. This tomb dates back to the end of the Old Kingdom (2347-2216 BC). It wa...

A unique collection of bronze casting workshop materials was found 1969 in an Egyptian rock-cut tomb by an excavation team from Bonn (Germany). After the first preliminary studies these objects disappeared for a long time into the museum's storerooms. With the use of modern technology it is now possible to finish the work initiated roughly 2500 yea...

Aktuelle Forschungen am Ägyptischen Museum der Universität Bonn zu weltweit einmaligen Gussformen für die Herstellung von bronzenen Götterfiguren im Wachsausschmelzverfahren liefern wichtige Erkenntnisse über die antike Technologie. Mit Hilfe modernster bildgebender Verfahren werden Einblicke in ein Konvolut von Gussformen der ägyptischen Spätzeit...

The article attempts to study the regionally and functionally separated social group of the HA.tj-a-mayors of the New Kingdom from a spatial-sociological perspective. After an introduction on spatial theory, the location of their tombs is discussed. Subsequently the connection between space and action and its thematization in the medium of text wil...