Salima Ikram
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3623975 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Salima Ikram |
| PRENOMES | Salima |
| SOBRENOME | Ikram |
| ASSINATURA | IKRAM S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Archaeology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Tomb living
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Egypt’s Theban necropolis (Luxor) was a living palimpsest where ancient tombs mingled with modern mudbrick homes. The Qurnawis, the modern inhabitants of the necropolis, adapted pharaonic tombs, using earthen architecture to convert them into functional living spaces. Shaped-earth cupboards, shelves, troughs, ovens, and dovecotes were constructed both inside and outside the tomb-houses. This paper presents…
The Beast Database of Wildlife Representations from Egypt and Nubia (c. 22,000–30BC)
We present a database comprising records of wildlife species >2 kg identified in depictions or man-made objects from Egypt and Nubia from the Last Glacial Maximum to the end of the Ptolemaic Period in Egypt (c.22,000BC–30BC) as reported in the literature. The categories of representations include: tomb reliefs and paintings, temple reliefs, rock art (engravings and paintings), ostraca, stelae, palettes, depictions on ceramics or various other obj…
Crocodile Rock! A Bioarchaeological Study of Ancient Egyptian Reptile Remains from the National Museum of Lithuania
Remnants of what was believed to be a single baby crocodile, originating from ancient Egypt and curated in the National Museum of Lithuania, have been recently assessed using noninvasive and nondestructive techniques. These had been donated in 1862 to the then Museum of Antiquities by the prominent Polish-Lithuanian collector Count Michał Tyszkiewicz. After careful investigation of the three mummified reptile fragments available, the authors were…
Maiherpri
Maiherpri was a rare individual in owning a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in the New Kingdom. His close relations with the royal family, as attested by his titles, might be the reason for this. His fame is partly based on the fact that his well‐appointed tomb was found intact.
Heqet (Heket)
The goddess Heqet was associated with birth and generation and was attested from the Early Dynastic through the Greco‐Roman eras.
Ancient Egyptian mummified shrews (Mammalia
Excavation of Ptolemaic Period (ca. 309–30 BC) strata within Theban Tombs 11, 12, -399-, and UE194A by the Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga (also known as the Djehuty Project), on the west bank of the Nile River opposite Luxor, Egypt, yielded remains of at least 175 individual small mammals that include four species of shrews (Eulipotypha: Soricidae) and two species of rodents (Rodentia: Muridae). Two of the shrews ( Crocidura fulvastra and Cro…
A History of World Egyptology
A History of World Egyptology is a ground-breaking reference work that traces the study of ancient Egypt over the past 150 years. Global in purview, it enlarges our understanding of how and why people have looked, and continue to look, into humankind's distant past through the lens of the enduring allure of ancient Egypt. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume investigates how territories around the world have engaged with, and …
Animals, Sacred
Ancient Egyptian deities had totemic animals. Particularly in the Late Period, it was believed that one specific animal of the species associated with a particular god would host the spirit of the god and thus be a manifestation of that deity on earth. This animal was identified by its special markings. During its lifetime it was revered, and upon its death it was mummified and interred with ceremony in an elaborate sepulcher.
Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo, located north of Aswan, is best known for its Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Horus and Sobek, a temple that still stands at the site, and for an associated necropolis of crocodile mummies. The site itself contains remains from the Old Kingdom onward; the town probably served as the administrative center of the area.
History of World Egyptology
Heresenes's Short Life under a "Starry Night"
Heresenes is a mummified 25th Dynasty (ca. 746–653 B.C.) Egyptian woman from Luxor, Egypt. Nondestructive evaluation through computerized tomography (CT) showed a failed attempt at excerebration, leaving Heresenes’s meninges and brain in situ. The brain structure shows numerous millimetric dense calcific nodules, a CT brain pattern dubbed “starry night,” which is consistent with a diagnosis of neurocysticercosis in a nodular calcified stage. A si…
Late Antique” Mining Community in the North Kharga Oasis (Egypt)
The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS) has been exploring the extreme northern area and western extension of Kharga Oasis in order to locate and document hitherto undiscovered and unrecorded archaeological sites and material. The archaeological sites identified during the course of the survey are varied, including rock art, routes, mines, quarries, water dumps, wells, shelters, hamlets, and settlements. The site presented here is a…
Mary Had a Little Ram
The Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga (Proyecto Djehuty) has been working in the Eighteenth Dynasty Theban Tombs of Djehuty (TT 11) and Hery (TT 12) and their environs since 2002. The excavators uncovered a deposit west of the courtyard of TT 11, consisting of a wrapped ram, a wooden coffin, and a dense deposit of pottery sherds. This is possibly one of the earliest excavated animal burials in the Theban area, and unusual in the fact that it is …
Ikram, Salima
Animal mummies
The Egyptians mummified humans and other animals in order to preserve the body so that it could serve as a host for the soul throughout eternity. Many species of animals were mummified, ranging from scarab beetles to cattle to crocodiles. The mummified animals were of different types: pets, victual, sacred, votive, false/fake, and other, possibly protective.
Cats, Crocodiles, Cattle, and More
The ancient Egyptians mummified animals as part of cultic activity from the Late Period into the Roman era (7th century BC to the 4th century AD). Necropolises have provided millions of animal mummies, reflecting the religious fervor of Egyptians with regard to sacred animal cults during this period. Despite the number of sites containing mummies, and the number of mummies themselves, surprisingly little is known with regard to the nuances in the…
‘When elephants battle, the grass suffers.’ Power, ivory and the Syrian elephant
The craftsmanship of the ivory objects in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean leave no doubt as to their intention to impress. Elephant teeth are an important raw material for the manufacture of these objects. Zooarchaeological research shows that cranial, dental, and postcranial remains of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are nearly as ubiquitous as worked ivory across Southwest Asia. This paper attempts to reconstruct the origin…
A kidney’s ingenious path to trimillennar preservation
An Egyptian Mummy of the Late Old Kingdom in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
This article discusses the history, importance, and conservation treatment of an Egyptian Old Kingdom mummy, purchased from the site of Abydos in 1920. It is the oldest, substantially intact, mummy of this date in the Americas
The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara
From steering oar to embalmer's tool
The re-identification of a single steering oar from the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, and a pair of oars in the British Museum
New Kingdom activities in the Kharga Oasis
The Cambridge World Prehistory 3 Volume Set
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and …
Man's Best Friend For Eternity
Ikram, Salima (2013): Man's best friend for eternity: dog and human burials in ancient Egypt. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 299-307, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a8
Nile
The Nile River is the longest river in the world, measuring 6,741 km. It originates in East Africa.
Man's Best Friend For Eternity
Ikram, Salima (2013): Man's best friend for eternity: dog and human burials in ancient Egypt. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 299-307, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a8
Cats, Crocodiles, Cattle, and More
The ancient Egyptians mummified animals as part of cultic activity from the Late Period into the Roman era (7th century BC to the 4th century AD). Necropolises have provided millions of animal mummies, reflecting the religious fervor of Egyptians with regard to sacred animal cults during this period. Despite the number of sites containing mummies, and the number of mummies themselves, surprisingly little is known with regard to the nuances in the…
The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara
An Egyptian Mummy of the Late Old Kingdom in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
This article discusses the history, importance, and conservation treatment of an Egyptian Old Kingdom mummy, purchased from the site of Abydos in 1920. It is the oldest, substantially intact, mummy of this date in the Americas
The Mummy in Ancient Egypt
Mummies have gripped the popular imagination through highly publicized discoveries and macabre horror movies. But for the ancient Egyptians, mummification and a full set of magical machinery including a tomb, a sarcophagus, masks, amulets and canopic jars was essential to secure eternal life. This work comprises a survey of the entire panoply of Egyptian burial equipment over 3,000 years. Part 1 provides an overview of burial rites and tomb devel…
Did the Ancient Egyptians Eat Biltong
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Domestic Shrines and the Cult of the Royal Family at el-'Amarna
Domestic Shrines and the Cult of the Royal Family at El-'Amarna
A discussion of the garden shrines found in the enclosures of the houses of Tell el-'Amarna leads to the conclution that they were dedicated to the royal family as intermediaries between the citizen and Aten
Did the Ancient Egyptians Eat Biltong
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The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993-1995
Ian Mathieson, Elizabeth Bettles, Joanne Clarke, Corinne Duhig, Salima Ikram, Louise Maguire, Sarah Quie, Ana Tavares, The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993-1995, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 83 (1997), pp. 17-53
The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993–1995
The National Museums of Scotland is engaged in producing an up-to-date archaeological and sub-surface geophysical map of an interesting and little explored area of the necropolis of Memphis at Saqqara. The area concerned comprises the Gisr el-Mudir (also known as the ‘Great Enclosure’) at the southern boundary, the open valley between the Sekhemkhet complex and the Gisr el-Mudir stretching north to the Serapeum and containing the L-shaped enclosu…
Choice Cuts
Choice Cuts
Choise cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt is a book about all aspects of meat processing in ancient Egypt. The book lists and examines the different types of meat consumed by the Egyptians: poultry, fish, and mammal, and their immediate by-products, such as blood and fat. The author discusses how each type of animal was slaughtered and processed for either immediate consumption or stored for later use, using pictorial, artefactual, textual, w…
The Animal World of the Pharaohs
The Mummy in Ancient Egypt
Mummies have gripped the popular imagination through highly publicized discoveries and macabre horror movies. But for the ancient Egyptians, mummification and a full set of magical machinery including a tomb, a sarcophagus, masks, amulets and canopic jars was essential to secure eternal life. This work comprises a survey of the entire panoply of Egyptian burial equipment over 3,000 years. Part 1 provides an overview of burial rites and tomb devel…
Petroglyphs and Inscriptions along the Darb Ayn Amur, Kharga Oasis
This brief article contains the result of a preliminary exploration of part of the Darb Ayn Amur, one of the two caravan routes that connected the Oases of Dakhla and Kharga. The prehistoric, Greek and Arab material collected along the way finds many parallels in the body of graffiti, rock-drawings and inscriptions recorded elsewhere in the Western Desert, and confirms that the track was used by travellers of all periods. The presence of Old King…
Barbering the Beardless
The article is an exploration of the significance of certain hairstyles found in Fayum mummy portraits, particularly amongst young males. Connections to continuing folk traditions are also made, especially with regard to issues concerning health and healing
An Early Dynastic Serekh from the Kharga Oasis
Publication of an inscription and associated rock-art discovered during survey work in the Kharga Oasis. This includes a previously unattested Early Dynastic serekh, here dated to Dynasty 0 or the early First Dynasty. The discovery demands a re-assessment of Early Dynastic activity in the Western Desert
Drawing the World
Ikram Salima. Drawing the World: Petroglyphs from Kharga Oasis. In: Archéo-Nil. Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil, n°19, 2009. L’art rupestre de la vallée du Nil et des déserts égyptiens. pp. 67-82
Prostate metastatic bone cancer in an Egyptian Ptolemaic mummy, a proposed radiological diagnosis
Nile
The Nile River is the longest river in the world, measuring 6,741 km. It originates in East Africa.
Animals, non‐domesticated (Egypt)
Prior to 3000 BCE Egypt's environment was much wetter, with much of its land away from the river being made up of grasslands punctuated by groups of trees, capable of supporting a diverse range of fauna. As the climate changed, much of the fauna moved south, with some creatures that had adapted to the increasing desert conditions remaining in Egypt.
Sokar
Sokar, one of Egypt's many falcon deities, was depicted in a variety of ways: as a sitting falcon; as a falcon‐headed mummiform man; a falcon‐headed man, often standing triumphantly upon serpents; and as a tumulus surmounted by a falcon's head, which is sometimes set into a henu barque, whose prow is maybe adorned with the head of an antelope or bull, with an int ‐fish, and falcons or swallows crowning the hull. He originated in the Memphite regi…
Sacrifice, Pharaonic Egypt
Animals were sacrificed in ancient Egypt primarily as part of religious rituals and festivals, although celebrations, particularly royal (e.g., marking marriages or births), also called for the large‐scale slaughter of animals, their meat being given to participants as food or distributed among the populace. Animal sacrifice was a manifestation of piety, as well as a practical way of distributing food throughout different social classes, giving g…
Heh
Hel was a member of the Ogdoad, a group of creator gods originating in Khemnu, modern el‐Ashmunein (Hermopolis Magna).
Religion, Pharaonic Egypt
Egyptian religion is the only religion that was continuously practiced from prehistory until well into Christian times.
Sphinx
The word “sphinx” is Greek in origin, although some scholars have suggested that it was derived from the Egyptian shesepankh , meaning living image; the word for sphinx in Egyptian was šspw . In Greek mythology the word referred to the creature with a woman's head and torso, a lion's body, and the wings of an eagle that guarded the gates of the Greek city of Thebes and asked a riddle of anyone who wished to enter the city; if they failed to answe…
Sekhmet
Sekhmet was a goddess of war, military, plague, and the burning heat of the sun.
Kharga Oasis
Kharga is the largest and southernmost of the five major oases of Egypt's Western Desert.
Aten/Aton
Aten was a sun god who was known at least by the Middle Kingdom, where he appears in the Coffin Texts Funerary Cult, Pharaonic Egypt).
Horus
Horus was a solar and sky god and one of the most important Egyptian gods associated with kingship.
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