Result Pubquiz 2018
Winner of the Dutch “Enige Echte Egypte Pubquiz 2018” is team *Ramses shabti* (Nico Staring, Huw Twinston-Davies, Paul van Pelt, Jurgen van Oostenrijk and Tessa de Roo).
Congratulations!! It was a close call, between the first four teams there is only one point difference each.
Photographs of the evening will be put online tomorrow!
Plaatsing | Teamnaam | Score |
1 | Ramses shabti | 76 |
2 | Hnqt irp | 75 |
3 | Fenedj Heb | 74 |
4 | Per-Pesdjeti | 73 |
5 | RA-vage | 68 |
6 | Ichemw-sk | 63 |
7 | Incognito | 61 |
8 | Nfr-Hr | 55 |
9 | Team Regret | 54 |
10 | Chaos | 49 |
11 | Malesh | 48 |
12 | Kemet | 39 |
13 | Haagse Hry | 38 |
14 | Arnold’s Angels | 28 |
15 | Gelderse Glorie | 24 |
16 | Peter | 8 |
Lustrum Edition Pub quiz by Friends of Saqqara
Wednesday evening 14 November 2018: lustrum edition of the “Enige Echte Egypte Pubquiz”, organized by Friends of Saqqara at the National Museum of Antiquities, as part of their 200th anniversary celebrations.
Who will win the coveted title ‘best Ancient Egypt connoisseur in the Low Countries’? Our pub quiz will test the contestants’ knowledge of Ancient Egypt through questions on art, history, archaeology, religion, literature and language – but also on famous museum objects, Egyptomania and the Saqqara necropolis. New this year: a crowd source round, with questions sent in by our public.
A pub quiz is not a pub quiz without drinks and nibbles. The museum’s Taffeh Hall is our pub for the evening, with consumptions available from the bar.
The scholarly soundness of the questions and answers is ensured by our expert jury. At the end of the evening, they will decide who wins the title and the honour. The three best teams, as well as the team to come in last, will receive prizes.
Quiz questions wanted!
New in our Egypt Pubquiz is the crowd source round. Have you got a clever Egypt pub quiz question that only you know the answer to? Mail your question to friends@saqqara.nl ! When the Quizmaster comes to your question, you will have an immediate advantage over your competitors.
What to submit?
· A multiple choice question related to ancient Egypt (archaeology, monuments, texts etc.), to Egyptology, excavators, explorers, or to modern (popular) culture containing ancient Egyptian elements.
· A relevant illustration, or possibly a sound fragment (if you don’t have an original in your possession, a reference to an online image, video or sound fragment will do).
· The correct answer, and optionally one or more (misleading) incorrect answers.
The organizers of the Egypt Pubquiz reserve the right to rephrase questions and answers submitted and chosen for the quiz. We are very excited to learn which obscure trivia you can come up with!
Event details
Date: Wednesday 14 November 2018
Time: 19.00-22.00 hrs
Location: National Museum of Antiquities, Rapenburg 28, Leiden
Language: Dutch
Entrance fee: €10 p.p., including one drink
Registration: via friends@saqqara.nl
Extra Lecture Ramadan Hussein
This lecture addresses briefly the status of Egyptological textual research in light of ideas generated in both traditional Philology and ‘New Philology’.
Programma 16e Saqqara-dag, 16 juni 2018 (in Dutch)
Zaterdag 16 juni 2018
9.00-18.00u
Lipsius-gebouw (Universiteit Leiden)
Cleveringaplaats 1
09:00-09.45u | Inschrijving en ontvangst met koffie/thee | |
09.45-10.00u | Opening 16e Saqqara-dag door de voorzitter van Friends of Saqqara | Vincent Oeters
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10.00-10.45u | The Saqqara Saite Tombs Project: Recent Discoveries (Engelstalig) | Ramadan Hussein |
10.45-11.15u | Pauze met koffie/thee | |
11.15-12.00u | Facebook voor het hiernamaals: Netwerken van elitegraven in het Oude Rijk | Nicky van de Beek |
12.00-14.00u | Lunchpauze (op eigen gelegenheid) | |
14.00-14.15u | Korte presentatie | Willem Hovestreydt |
14.15-14.30u | Opnieuw een kleine ibis-surpise | Rob Demarée |
14.30-14.45u | Een corpus van reliëfs uit Memphis: Nieuws uit het archief van Geoffrey T. Martin | Nico Staring |
14.45-15.15u | Pauze met koffie/thee | |
15.15-16.15u | Verslag van het opgravingsseizoen 2018 in Saqqara door de opgravingsleiders | Lara Weiss |
16.15-16.30u | Loterijtrekking | |
16.30-18.00u | Afsluitende borrel | |
vanaf 18.00u | Diner in restaurant Verboden Toegang (optioneel) |
Donateurs gratis, studenten € 5, anderen € 10 entree (incl. koffie en thee, excl. lunch en diner).
Deelname aan het aansluitende diner in restaurant Verboden Toegang kost ca. € 25 à € 30 (à la carte).
Verdiep uw kennis van het oude Egypte, leer meer over de begraafplaats Saqqara, ontmoet de wetenschappers die er werkzaam zijn èn uw mede-geïnteresseerden, sla uw slag op de tweedehands boekenmarkt, doe mee met een spannende loterij en geniet samen met ons van een afsluitend diner. Mis het niet!
Aanmelden kan tot en met woensdag 13 juni.
Digging Diary 6: 21.04 – 27.04.2018
Final Digging Diary 2018 (by Lara Weiss & Christian Greco)
After Turin joined our excavations as a partner in 2015, Christian and Lara look back to this first year of their Leiden-Turin excavations directed by the two of them together.
We find it extremely important to dig slowly and carefully, understand the stratigraphy, and document the whole area – which means literally everything we find – as carefully as possible. For this task, we are very lucky to have found the 3D Survey Group from Politecnico di Milano willing to survey the concession and the ongoing excavations. With their new, ground-breaking method to create 3D models and orthorectified 2D images, we can now document every step of the excavations and ‘undo’ the destruction usually caused by archaeology.
The information will soon be uploaded in a new Saqqara information system, which will be an extremely useful tool – not only during the recording phase in the field but also, at a later stage, to re-elaborate the information, share it with pottery, human remains, wood or architecture specialists in a collaborative environment, and disseminate it to the wider public. We thank Prof. Corinna Rossi and her team (Francesco Fassi, Alessandro Mandelli and Luca Perfetti) for their kind cooperation, and also for their great company and friendship in the past six weeks.
We are very pleased with our pottery team: Barbara Aston, who has been working with the expedition since 1986, the year of the discovery of the tomb of Maya and is now finalising an important book on the pottery coming from that tomb; Lyla Pinch Brock, who has been helping Barbara and drawing lots of beautiful pots; Valentina Gasperini, assisted by Alice Salvador, who is studying the pottery coming in great quantity every day from the excavation area to the north of the tomb of Maya. The help of a new team member, Nicola dell’Aquila, photographer of the Turin Museum, has been essential for the documentation of the various artefacts we have found.
Apart from new methods, we also have new questions that aim at a broader understanding of the site beyond the excavation and documentation of individual tombs. We would like to understand how our concession area functioned over the centuries. As to the pharaonic period: who decided to build his tomb where and why? Which wall decoration schemes were chosen? Which religious activities were performed? But also later, how was the area reused? By whom? And with what purpose? To help answer these questions, our excavations are currently also funded by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of a research project called ‘The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography’, supervised by Lara Weiss.
For this project, the area the Leiden-Turin team is currently excavating is particularly interesting, because it is an area in-between larger tombs where we can detect the activities of the ancient Egyptians over several millennia. In the New Kingdom, roughly around 1200 BCE, three very nice small limestone burial chapels were built in front of related burial shafts leading to subterranean burial chambers. The burials of the Late Period, in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, were often accompanied by so-called embalmers’ caches, in which the used mummification materials of the burials of that time were placed (and sometimes burnt).
Yet again 6 or more centuries later, the Late Antique population lived here near the Monastery of Apa Jeremias, sometimes burying their children under the floor. Deputy director Paolo Del Vesco and archaeologists Miriam Müller, Nico Staring, Sarah Schrader and Jelene Ali Scheers have uncovered and documented every layer, and retrieved digging activities in the 19th century. It shows that the treasure hunts at that time were timely organized and systematic. We found three pits at equal distances from each other, of which the third one still had a 19th century basket inside.
At the end of the season it is time not only to thank our awesome team from Leiden-Turin, but also our Egyptian workmen for their hard work and enthusiasm, our Egyptian colleagues for their assistance and support, and last but not least our cooks Atef and Islam for taking good care of us in the dig house.
This was an amazing season, and we are greatly looking forward to 2019!