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New Treasures from Tutankhamun’s Tomb Revealed

Thursday, November 16, 2017 13:41

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As part of a German-Egyptian project, archaeologists from Tübingen for the first time examine embossed gold applications from the sensational find of 1922. The motifs indicate surprising links between the Levant and the Egypt of the pharaohs.

Researchers from Tübingen working on a German-Egyptian project have examined embossed gold applications from the treasure of the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun for the first time. The objects come from the famed find made by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. Until now, they had been held in storage at the Egyptian Museum Cairo. They can be seen at a special exhibition at the museum which began on Wednesday.

Embossed gold application with motif of animal combat of Levantine origin. Photographer: Christian Eckmann;

Credit and Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen

Conservators and archaeologists of the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES, Professor Peter Pfälzner), the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo, (DAI, Professor Stephan Seidlmayer), and the Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz (RGZM, Professor Falko Daim), as well as the Egyptian Museum have spent four years (2013-2017) analysing the find. The German Foreign Office and the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded the work.

Through painstaking hours in the lab, the partners restored the objects at the Egyptian Museum. They also made drawings of the items and did comprehensive research on them. A team of conservators, Egyptologists and specialists in Near Eastern archaeology found the embossed gold applications in the same crate they were placed in by Howard Carter’s team immediately after their discovery. At the time, the artefacts were photographed and packed, unrestored, and were never again removed until this project.

Fragments from a tomb: 100 entire embossed gold applications were ultimately assembled.

Photographer: Christian Eckmann; Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen

During years of detail work, conservators Christian Eckmann and Katja Broschat of the Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum Mainz reassembled the fragments to produce 100 nearly complete embossed gold applications. They suspect the items are decorative fittings for bow cases, quivers and bridles. IANES archaeologists from Tübingen examined the images on the embossed gold applications and categorized them from an art-historical perspective. In her dissertation, doctoral candidate Julia Bertsch succeeded in distinguishing the Egyptian motifs on the embossed gold applications from those that could be ascribed to an “international”, Middle Eastern canon of motifs.

Among these are images of fighting animals and goats at the tree of life that are foreign to Egyptian art and must have come to Egypt from the Levant. “Presumably these motifs, which were once de-veloped in Mesopotamia, made their way to the Mediterranean region and Egypt via Syria,” explains Peter Pfälzner. “This again shows the great role that ancient Syria played in the dissemination of culture during the Bronze Age.”

Fragments from a tomb: The embossed gold applications presumably served as decorative fittings for bow cases, quivers and bridles

Photographer: Christian Eckmann;
Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen

Interestingly, he adds, similar embossed gold applications with thematically comparable images were found in a tomb in the Syrian Royal city of Qatna. There, the team of archaeologists from Tübingen led by Pfälzner, discovered a pristine king’s grave in 2002. It dates back to the time of around 1340 B.C., so it is just a bit older than Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. The archaeologist says, “This remarkable aspect provided the impetus for our project on the Egyptian finds.”

After Howard Carter’s sensational find, the embossed gold applications were stored in this box. They were analysed for the first time in 2013.

Photographer: Christian Eckmann; Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen

Now”, says Pfälzner, “we need to solve the riddle of how the foreign motifs on the embossed gold applications came to be adopted in Egypt”. The professor says that here, chemical analyses have been illuminating. “The results showed that the embossed gold applications with Egyptian motifs and the others with foreign motifs were made of gold of differing compositions,” he says. “That does not necessarily mean the pieces were imported. It may be that various local workshops were responsible for producing objects in various styles – and that one used Near Eastern models.”

After the current initial exhibition of these objects in Cairo, they will be on display in future in the new Grand Egyptian Museum close to the pyramids at Gizeh. Now, almost a century after they were discovered, and thanks to the work of archaeologists from Tübingen and Egyptologists and conser-vators from Mainz and Cairo, the scientific analysis of these artefacts from one of Egypt’s most sen-sational archaeological finds has been completed.

Contacts and sources:
Prof. Dr. Peter Pfälzner / Antje Karbe

University of Tübingen

Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/11/new-treasures-from-tutankhamuns-tomb.html

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Britnay Smithh

But these archeologists missed big point! Tuthankhamon’s tomb is located in a Nile rive -bend shaped as female grotto,and that his tomb was loaded with GOLD, we all know. Similarly,the ancient Maya capital,Yaxchilan,was located in similar river-bend on the Usumacinta river( 5 mother-bears)…This ancient custom was borrowed by the jewry,settling in Motherly lands like Ama-ruca/ America,or local river bends as female grottos: Canary Wharf( Serpent Port) known as City of London; or jewish quarter,Josefov in Prague,river-bend in Vltava river( note the Tav)…See Seine Psris and its jewish river-bend quarters,up to Potomac river…Mesopotamia/
Dark Rift is described in Genesis 2: 8-14,where the GOLD is,in Milky Way,in the East of Milky Way…There sre numerous,earthly copies of Medopotamia,with numerous local GOLD stoties! The Incas settled in America’s grotto,and their GOLDEN Cori-can-cha temple was locsted in the confluence of Huatamay-Tullumayo rivers! On Sinai copy,there was the Golden Calf story..And on Manhattan,there was the Federal Reserve Gold Vault on Liberty Street 33,nearby the demolished Twin Towers!
The heavily,by jews populated New Yotk City,is known as Big Apple…Why? Because the jews settle in female grottos( Mesopota-
mias),and the APPLE symbolise the female yonic stargate,Black Hole…Eva gives the APPLE to Adam,in the Garden of Eden( Mesopotamia in Milky Way)…England has the famous Avalon island( Apple island) surrounded by Stonrhenge,Avebuty,Glastonbury and Warminster…The Russian TWO headed eagle,symbol of our Dual Crestor( plural Elohim,or Iah+Havah,etc.) holds tight grip on the Golden Apple( yoni) and the Golden Sword( phallus)…At the centre of the Eagle,is ST.GEORGE-THE DRAGON SLAYER ON THE WHITE HORSE OF APOCSLYPSE,spearing the American Dragon-Serpent! East is alwsys victorious over the West,from where the Judgement and Death arrives at the end of Anno Magnus!

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