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Brussels
17-19 Sept. 2015
From Epipalaeolithic petroglyphs to Roman graffiti: Stylistic variability of anthropomorphs at Gebel el Silsila (Upper Egypt), International Conference "What Ever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa.

Florence
23-30 Aug. 2015
Returning to Gebel el Silsila: New discoveries of the Swedish Archaeological Project.

 

 

 


PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

Martinez, P., "Une commande royale pour le Ramesseum : une stèle inédite de Ramsès II au Gebel es-Silsileh", Memnonia XX (2009), 133-172.

Nilsson, M., ‘Solar symbolism in Gebel el Silsila’, Ancient Planet, 3/12, 2012, 50-62.
‘Pseudo script at Gebel el Silsila: an introduction to ancient Egyptian Quarry Marks’, Ancient Planet, 2/12, 2012, 96-111.

‘Pseudo script in Gebel el Silsila – preliminary results of the epigraphic survey 2012’, in Current Research in Egyptology XIV, Oxford 2014, 122-141.

‘Quarry marks in Partition B, Main Quarry at Gebel el Silsila: remarks on their meaning and function’, JSSEA 39, 2014, 139-178.

‘Non-textual marking systems at Gebel el Silsila: From Dynastic signifiers of identity to symbols of adoration’, in: Lingua Aegyptia, Non-textual marking systems, forthcoming.

‘Quarry Marks in Gebel el Silsila – signifiers of men and gods alike?, in Decoding Signs Proceedings, forthcoming.

‘Preliminary report, Gebel el Silsila Survey Project 2013’ (unpublished report for the SCA/MSA)

‘Preliminary report, Gebel el Silsila Survey Project 2014’ (unpublished report for the SCA/MSA).

Nilsson, M. and Almasy, A., ‘Quarrying for Claudius, protected by Min: Reflections on a small quarry in Gebel el Silsila East’, BMSAES 22, 2015, 87-110.

Nilsson, M. and Ward, J., ‘Surveying the sandstone quarries of Gebel el Silsila’, KMT 25:3, 2014, 34- 43.

‘Mason or priest? A comparison between Graeco-Roman signs on magical
amulets and symbols in Egyptian quarries’, proceedings, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, forthcoming.

‘Pictorial representations at Gebel el Silsila – a 10 000 year long repertoire’, in:
Proceedings ‘Italian Days in Aswan’, forthcoming.

Series of articles quarterly since 2011 and approved for continuous publication in the Egyptological Society of South Africa’s magazine Shemu:

‘Letters from Silsila: Gebel el Silsila – an ancient sacred landscape in stone’, Shemu, Jan. 2013

‘Letters from Silsila – Memorials in the rock face, Shemu, April 2013

‘Letters from Silsila – Stele of Ramses II rediscovered, Shemu, July 2013

‘Letters from Silsila – Ancient Quarries and Predynastic Rock Art, Shemu, January 2014.

‘Letters from Silsila – Brief fieldreport from the 2014 Spring Season’, Shemu, July 2014.

Ward, J. and Nilsson, M., Article, ‘Mallets, Chisels, Sledges and Boats: the Art of Quarrying at Gebel el Silsila’, CRE XV, Oxford 2015, 59-72.

See also:

‘The Gebel el Silsila Survey Project: Two seasons’, ARCE Newsletter, autumn 2013: http://www.arce.org/news/2013/08/u117/The-Gebel-el-Silsila-Survey-Project-Two-Seasons

PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES

“Mason or priest? A comparison between Graeco-Roman signs on magical amulets and symbols in Egyptian quarries”, Budapest 2012.

“Pseudo script in Gebel el Silsila – preliminary results of the epigraphic survey 2012”, CRE XIV Cambridge 2013.

“Gebel el Silsila – a visual fieldreport”, UNESCO/Nubian Museum, Aswan 2013.

“Pictorial representations at Gebel el Silsila – a 10 000 year long repertoire”, Italian days in Aswan 2013 (UNESCO organized conference).

“Quarry Marks in Gebel el Silsila – signifiers of men and gods alike?”, DECODING SIGNS OF IDENTITY: Egyptian workmen’s marks in archaeological, historical, comparative and theoretical perspective, Leiden 2013.

‘A visual field report from Gebel el Silsila’, NVIC Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo, November 2013.

“Multicultural commemorations: An epigraphic journey from Prehistoric rock art to Napoleonic signatures at Gebel el Silsila”, CRE XV London 2014.

‘Mallets, Chisels, Sledges and Boats: the Art of Quarrying at Gebel el Silsila’, CRE XV London 2014.

“Gebel el Silsila: scientific work, site management and current threats”, The Southern Gate of Egypt, March 2014 (UNESCO organized conference).

"Gebel el Silsila – an introduction to the site, its challenges, archaeology and management", SSEA’s annual symposium, 13-16 November 2014.

“Early Emperors at Gebel el Silsila (Upper Egypt) – quarry activity and workers’ graffiti”, King’s College in London, February 2015.

“From Epipalaeolithic petroglyphs to Roman graffiti: Stylistic variability of anthropomorphs at Gebel el Silsila (Upper Egypt)”, International Conference "What Ever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa" (Brussels, 17-19 September 2015)

“Returning to Gebel el Silsila: New discoveries of the Swedish Archaeological Project”, International Congress of Egyptologists XI (Florence, 23-30 August 2015)

 

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Selection of previous publications on Gebel el Silsila (previous to the current survey project)...

Barguet, P., Les stèles du Nil au Gebel Silsileh. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 50, 1952, 49 – 63

Bernand, A., de Thébes á Syéne (Paris 1989)
 
Bommas, M., Schrein unter: Gebel es-Silsilah im Neuen Reich. In Grab und Totenkult im alten Ägypten, ed. Heike Guksch, Eva Hofmann, and Martin Bommas, 2003, 88 - 103

Borchardt, L., Nachträge zu “Nilmesser und Nilstandsmarken”. Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin, 1934, 194 - 202

Brand, P., The monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, historical and art historical analysis. Probleme der Ägyptologie 16, Leiden: Brill, 2000

Caminos, R., Gebel es-Silsilah No. 100. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 38, 1952, 46 - 61

‘Surveying Gebel Es-Silsilah’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 41, 1955, 51-55

“Gebel es-Silsile”. In Lexikon der Ägyptologie, Vol. 2 (columns 441 - 447), ed

Wolfgang Helck, and Wolfhart Westendorf, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1977

Amenophis III’s vizier Amenhotep at Silsilah East. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 73, 1987a, 207 – 210

Epigraphy in the field. In Problems and priorities in Egyptian archaeology, studies in Egyptology, ed. Jan Assmann, Günter Burkard, and Vivian Davies, pp. 57 - 67. London: KPI. 1987b

Phantom architects at Gebel es-Silsila. In Studies in Pharaonic religion and society in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths, Occasional Publications 8, ed. Alan Lloyd, pp. 52 - 56. London: Egypt Exploration Society. 1992

Caminos, R. & James, T., Gebel es-Silsilah, vol. 1: the shrines, London 1963

Delvaux, L., Hatshepsout et le Gebel es-Silsileh: Les carrières d’une reine dangereuse. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists: Cambridge, 3 - 9 September 1995, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 82, ed. Christopher Eyre, pp. 317 - 324. Leuven: Peeters 1998

Griffith, F. L., Notes on a tour in Upper Egypt: West Silsileh. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology XII, 1889, 89 - 113

Harrell, J.A., ‘An inventory of ancient Egyptian quarries’, Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 146, 1989, 1-7.

‘Stone in ancient Egypt’, in H. Selin (ed.), Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Culture (2nd ed.), Dordrecht 2008, 2022- 2026.
           
“Gebel el-Silsila”, in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. Roger S. Bagnall et al.         (New York, 2013), 2865 

Harrell, J.A., V.M. Brown and M.S. Masoud, Survey of ancient Egyptian quarries: Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority, Cairo 1996.

Heldal, T., Bloxam, E., Storemyr , P.,’Unravelling ancient stone quarry landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: three Egyptian case studies’, in B. Ooghe & G. Verhoeven (eds.) Broadening Horizons: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Study, Newcastle 2007, 90-112.

de Keersmaecker, R., Travellers’ graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan XI: Gebel el-Silsila: Great speos of Haremhab, shrines, quarry, and rock-stelae. Berchem: Graffito Graffiti. 2011

Klemm, D. & Klemm, R., Stone and Stone Quarries in Ancient Egypt, London 2008.

Kramer, A., Talatat shipping from Gebel el-Silsileh to Karnak: A literature survey. Bibliotheca Orientalis LXVI, 2009, 5 - 20

Kucharek, A., ”Gebel el-Silsila”. in UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, ed. Willeke Wendrich (Los Angeles, 2012), 1-17: website accessed on 10 July 2013

Die Felskapellen der 18. Dynastie in Gebel es-Silsilah. Unpublished MA thesis: Heidelberg University, 1998

Die frühe Persönliche Frömmigkeit im Fest: Über ein Lied in Gebel es-Silsilah.
Göttinger Miszellen 176, 2000, 77 - 80

Senenmut in Gebel es-Silsilah. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 66, fc.

Legrain, G., “La nécropole archaïque du Gebel Silsileh”, ASAE 4 (1903): 218-20

Notes d’inspection III: La chapelle de Senmaout à Gebel Silsileh. Annales du service
d’antiquités del’Égypte 4, 1903, 193 - 197

Notes d’inspection IV: Sur l’architecte Aménôthès qui vécut sous Aménôthès III.
Annales du serviced’antiquités de l’Égypte 4, 1903, 197 - 212

Lepsius, Karl
Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. Plates Abt. III, Part 7. Berlin: Nicolai. 1853
Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. Plates Abt. VI, Part 11. Berlin: Nicolai. 1856
Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien. Text IV. Berlin and Leipzig: 1901

J. C. Hinrichs.Miller, F., Vandome, A. & McBrewster J., Stone Quarries of Ancient Egypt, Mauritius 2011

Osing, J., Les graffiti de l’Ancien et du Moyen Empire au Gebel el-Silsila. In Séhel entre Égypte et Nubie:Inscriptions rupestres et graffiti de l’époque pharaonique: Actes du colloque international, 31 mai - 1er juin 2002,Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, ed. Annie Gasse, and Vincent Rondot, 2004, 3 - 6. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry

Petrie, W.M.F., A season in Egypt 1887, London 1888

Preiskge, F. & Spiegelberg, W., Ägyptische und griechische Inschriften und Graffiti aus den Steinbrüchen des Gebel Silsile (Oberägypten) - nach den Zeichnungen von Georges Legrain, Strassburg 1915

Radwan, A,  Eine Inschrift aus Gebel el-Silsilah. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 32, 1976, 187 – 189

Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia I: Monumenti storici: Plates. Pisa: Capurro, 1832
I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia I: Monumenti storici: Text. Pisa: Capurro. 1838
I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia III: Monumenti del culto: Text. Pisa: Capurro.
1844a
I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia III: Monumenti del culto: Plates. Pisa: Capurro
1844b

Sayce, A., ‘Excavations at Gebel Silsila’, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l´Égypte 8, 1907, 97-105

Smith, M., Gebel el-Silsila. In Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt, ed. Kathryn Bard, and Steven Shubert, pp. 394 - 397. London: Routledge 1999

Thiem, A., Speos von Gebel es-Silsileh. Ägypten und Altes Testament 47. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2000

Weigall, A., Guide to the antiquities of Upper Egypt: from Abydos to the Sudan frontiers, London 1910.

 

 

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